Well, I finally got my new toy. A heavy bag (and a set of workout gloves to go with it). Ok, couple o’ problems with it – you cannot attempt to do deep punches (IE – not aiming for the surface, but instead aiming for a follow through). I can knock it over doin’ that …
Looks like today is going to be somewhat quiet at the office, and I’ll be able to concentrate on getting work done. The phone system we have is a channelized T1 for all our phone lines, and then separately we still have an ISDN line that powers our Internet connection. Well, the T1 has died, …
WARNING: This journal entry is even more random crap than normal. Just stuff on my mind, and it wanders everywhere – and probably a couple of strange places. Now that I have that warning out of the way… Right now, I’m working on Gremlin Panic!, one of the games that’s been in production for at …
For those who are interested in Jess and Dave’s wedding photos, click here to see part 1 of 3 for the wedding pictures. This is from my digital camera, not the professional cameras that were there. After those get developed, I’ll put ’em online. huh? darn 2002-05-09 07:09 pm UTC (from 216.17.193.57) (link) Select I …
Workin’ on Trajectory of course. The UI is starting to come together, and one of the cool parts is a new feature I implemented. Since sometimes the distance between players is going to be fairly far, and it’s a very visual game, I decided to add something new. There’s a slider bar at the bottom, …
Some days, I hate to call myself a programmer. Why? Because it lumps me in with a lot of really fucking stupid people. This weeks Rant is brought to you courtousey of Matrox Corporation. I have a sweet setup at work. I have a Matrox 400 DualHead MAX, with a 21″ monitor in the center, …
Everything with Trajectory is going great. My current task is creating a reasonable UI. OK, I finally found something new I hate about Toruqe – the UI designer & UI elements. While it’s a HUGE step over what it could be, it still tends to have some major suckage about it, IMHO. Oh well – …
Testing.
Ya know, something kinda fishy smelling is going on. Today there have been two air liners crash, and probably 172 dead from that. Yesterday there was one crash. Two weeks ago there was another. Unluckly (well, luckly really) they are not US planes – otherwise I could pull up the FAA preliminary investigation reports online, …
Ya know, for a song with almost ziltch for meaningful lyrics, I love Apollo 440’s Can’t Stop The Rock. Funny part is, after listening to part of thier stuff to see what else they have, I really can’t say I like much else they have done. *SIGH* I was hopin’ to find another group with …
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I never got to writing about my experiences at the new Warren Theater East. Simply put, if you are in Wichita at some point, and you miss the opportunity to hit the Warren Theater East then you may have missed one of the highlights of Wichita. We went to the very first Balcony showings – …
Well, it’s done. Heabo and I made it through Jess and Dave’s wedding. It actually went pretty well, except for a little confusion here and there at the last moment. And I discovered there were problems with trying to do public speaking while missing two teeth – my tounge litterally TRIES to get into the …
Well, the day is here. I’m stoppin’ for a moment to relax, and try to center myself. I’m about to go be a Reverend for the first time – and while that may not seem like a big deal, it is to me. I’ve got to go in, be calm cool and collected (not that …
Ahh, one of those things that you never think about until you have problems with it – solid food. Before surgery yesterday, I didn’t eat anything. After the surgery, I really didn’t feel like eating anything, but about 2 PM I made raman noodles. No dice. Couldn’t keep the pad in the side of my …
Well, I just got back from the dentists office. They had sent me to a specialist to have two teeth pulled. And ya know what – I’m glad they sent me to a specialist. It took a bit for the numbing process to be done, but, the actual extraction took less than two minutes. The …
Well, I went to the dentist. Of course, my teeth are complete crap, since I keep putting off getting my teeth worked on due to both money and time. I really wish I HAD kept up on it, since now instead of costing me a max of $500, the insurance rates increased, and now costs …
I have a toothache. But it’s not one of those mild, ignorable ones. It’s also not a painful one like an impacted wisdom tooth (I’ve had two of them), or a cracked wisdom tooth (I’ve had one of those.) No, this is raw, nasty, Anbesol and Ibuprofin combined won’t touch it tooth ache. Ow. Ow. …
Ok, well, maybe it didn’t go THAT well 😉 However, it did go very well. I set it up, and fired the ice bullets for the first time – yep, they work awsome! The Onager it’s self has a great firing angle – almost a perfect 45 arc, giving great height to distance ratio. That’s …
Today is the test firing of the Onager, here in about an hour. Everything looks good so far – though after putting removable wheels on it, it really does look a little silly to take the Onager for a walk. 😉 I’ll update how it goes when I’m done I’ll leave this very short post …
Ok, the Onager is in good shape now. Replaced the windings with nylon rope. Got 6 twists of the tensioners on one side, and 5 on the other. I stopped there because I was putting the nerf ball on my neighbor across the street’s driveway. Perfect so far. The ropes have pleantly more left that …
Just discovered that the Baron didn’t mention to the Seneshal anything about the Onager. Just got this email: Test fire? ::nervous chuckle:: From a seneschal perspective, the words ‘test fire’ at a demo that does not include archery can have no other reaction than me becoming nervous. What are we planning on firing? Of course, …
Well, the Onager is back in business. I just got through re-building the main beams. However – it still lacks throwing power. I’m not sure what I’m gonna do, except possibly replace the winding rope (it’s a natural fiber rope at the moment) with a more ‘springy’ nylon rope I have. UG – what a …
Just busted one of the mainbeams on the catapult. Shit. And everything was goin’ so well with it 😛 However, it might be fixable without replacing the main beam using a couple o’ 2×4’s for re-enforcement. But, gonna take a couple of hours to get it done, and probably have to unwind all of it …
Ya know, being the greedy bastard businessman I am, I just realized I’m missing a potential for traffic and sales. All the stupid quizzes running around have something in common – for someone to take one, the gotta go to the site 🙂 Time for some thinkin’ – what quizzes would generate some traffic? 🙂 …
which “monty python and the holy grail” character are you? this quiz was made by colleen
Left the office at 1 PM to go look at someone’s phone system. They have lost thier phone system like 6 times now – each time during a lighting storm (and of course, it’s now starting that season again….) I blew two hours doing almost nothing. I know they took me because it’s phone related, …
Ya know, some mornings you wake up in on the wrong side of the Universe. Lord knows I did this morning. Got up, and at first couldn’t decide if Heabo woke up before me, or, just came home. It was the latter – she stayed with Jess’s pretty late, and just slept there. One of …
The Onager is ready for firing. Well, actually, I’ve got two more modification yet, and the Baron was inquiring about getting it to do less of a flat trajectory (which is what it would have now), so I may add a second block to the cross beam to arc the trajectory more (it’s fairly easy …
Trajectory (my first Torque game) well under way… except for a couple o’ small naggin’ details! I’ve been hackin’ out a project called Trajectory – which I’m not gonna go into lots of detail about until I’m ready to post screen shots, etc. I plan on it being ready at the end of May, but, …
Got A LOT done this weekend. Started with Friday night, Heabo and I cleaned the garage. And I do mean really clean. It’s still not DONE yet, however – still got a couple more boards to put up, and I’ve got some shelves to build for storage. But, it’s pretty close now. Saturday we got …
