My Interactive Fiction game is coming along fairly well.. especially since I had never heard of Inform 7 before taking this class.
So far the only real problem I am having with my game is with a piece of scenery. I created a cabinet and put a message in it. When the player enters the room the cabinet is not visible, yet you can still... Read More
I have been using the VIM text editor for over a decade and love it. However, lately in my CS classes I have been writing a lot more code than I usually do and have been having this feeling of wanting something more. So I've decided that I'm going to try out Emacs.. again. I think the last time I looked at... Read More
After working with blender for the last week and a half I've come to the conclusion that it is a great piece of software for 3D modeling and 3D animation, but it's not so great for 3D games.
The 3D game that I am working on for one of my classes is a simple maze with a ball as the actor. The player moves the... Read More
Still trying to get my 3D game done "enough" before Friday... Not going as well as I hoped/planned. At this point I just hope I pass all of my classes!
This week I had a tooth pulled (#18) that I had root canal done on some 10+ years ago. It had deteriorated, unknown to me, over the years and was not really savable (it would have cost $5k and I don't have insurance). So on Thursday morning I went in to the low-income dental shop and they pulled out a tooth. It took an HOUR... Read More
The 3D advertisements before the movie were better than the actual movie. The movie itself was pretty good considering it was a remake of a TV series/comic and contained some typical... Read More
Well I had a good birthday yesterday and made out like a bandit on the gifts.. too bad most of the gift money will have to go towards buying books and paying bills.
I finally got my Epson Stylus Photo R380 to work in Linux. Although I'm still having issues where usb_storage module tries to take control of it because it has a memory card... Read More
Why is it that when the 6 month promotional price ends with a comcast bundle that if you call in and threaten that you're going to cancel all of the services they give you a new promotional price?
So I saw this new(ish) magazine called Alt Exclusive. It's pictorial magazine dedicated to alternative art: women with tattoos, fetishes, etc. Kinda of interesting and the photography... Read More
Friends don't let friends go to Geek Squad (Best Buy)
I have a computer on my workbench from a local business. It failed to boot up on Monday morning after being turned off all weekend. They weren't sure what was wrong so they took it to Geek Squad for a free diagnostic. GS told them that the power supply and motherboard were bad after filling... Read More
