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01:39:06 PM,
Monday 31 May 2004
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01:37:28 PM,
Monday 31 May 2004
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A theory: My quest for foriegn pop music is an attempt to recreate my infant experience of a Beach Boy's Endless Summer 8-track. I know every note of these songs, but the lyrics are a fog of ancient impressions.
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08:38:09 PM,
Sunday 30 May 2004
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games I have loved:
Atari
Breakthrough
StarMaster
Adventure
Pong
Apple IIe
Wizardry
Taipan
IO Silver
Ultima V
Archon I/II
Summer Games I-II/Winter Games
Rescue Raiders
Castle Wolfenstein
Karataka
Rocky's Boots
Oregon Trail
Prince of Persia
Apple IIGS
Pirates!
Curse of Monkey Island
Tetris
Nintendo
RC Pro Am
F-Zero
Mac
Shufflepuck Cafe
3 in Three
TurboGrafx
Dragon's Curse
Military Madness
R-Type
PC
Eye of the Beholder
Agent USA
Double Dragon
Nethack
Civilization
Lemmings
Railroad Tycoon
Master of Orion I/II
Wing Commander
Wing Commander Privateer
Warlords II
Gameboy
Pokemon
Playstation
Final Fantasy VII - X
Final Fantasy Tactics
Wipeout Fusion
Gran Tourismo III
Ico
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccounus
I'm sure I'm missing some.
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11:04:28 PM,
Saturday 29 May 2004
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Right. In order to allow paddles to be bred for shape, I need to be able to have arbitarily shaped paddles. I've got this worked out as far as the physics is concerned. The only difficulty is breaking the polygons into triangles. There is a routine that does this for me available, but it requires me to use pointers, and using pointers in C# is excessively painful. The whole point of C# and similar is to escape the dratted things. There is absolutely no reason I need to use them here, it's simply that the library function wants to be passed pointers. I suppose the solution is to write a wrapper class over the evil OpenGL class, but that still means I need to work out how to use the dratted things in C#. Originally, I thought I'd just write my own tessalator, but sitting down with a pencil and paper quickly disabused me of that notion. Breaking polygons into triangles isn't particularly straightforward.
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07:06:57 PM,
Friday 28 May 2004
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A blog where the background color grew darker and darker, the longer it sad unused, until after a month or so, it had gone entirely dark.
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05:37:12 PM,
Thursday 27 May 2004
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"In the end, I hope I can make people aware that a vote for Ralph Nader is a vote for George Bush" Kerry said. "A vote for John Kerry is a vote for the principles and values they care about."
Either dishonest or daft. All together now: A vote for George Bush is a vote for George Bush. A vote for Nader isn't a vote at all as far as the outcome goes. If you must assign it a value, it's half a vote for Bush. As the moral property of the democratic nominee, your betrayal has narrowed forces of good's margin of victory only half as much as a Bush voter.
I wouldn't mind at all if he talked about voting for Nader is a vote of indifference, and why it matters who wins. I'd be delighted if Nader did so, at this accursed convention. Were I a cross-town commuter, I'd vote for Nader. Of all the self important twaddle, closing the highway for a glorified pep rally. But back to the point, a vote for Nader isn't a vote for Bush unless they find the rubber mask, which I'm not ruling out entirely, mind.
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05:34:01 PM,
Thursday 27 May 2004
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I've decided to abscond with sin and virtue. They're good words, and no one else ever uses them, at least, not within earshot, so may as well.
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04:05:09 PM,
Wednesday 26 May 2004
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No one should ever feel any obligation to hate anyone. Not the fascists, not the capitalists, not the revolutionaries, not the criminals, not the sales staff, and not the zealots. Hating people is unfortunate, a weakness, a sin, something to be ashamed of, something to work around, because they never deserve it. Approaching a class of people with the desire to hate them, even dead people, even a theoretical person who did naught but harm in the world, it isn't good. So many movements that started with the simple idea of tolerance seem to have turned into raging sectarianism.
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03:34:52 PM,
Wednesday 26 May 2004
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This morning my cube was decorated with pictures of the young Marlon Brando. On monday, I noticed there's a new, lovely 12 foot ficus tree under my window. There are good aspects of this job.
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11:41:16 AM,
Wednesday 26 May 2004
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"wake up and smell the *" -coffee
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01:56:10 PM,
Tuesday 25 May 2004
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I have always been easy to recognize. I wonder if easily recognizable people share personality traits. There was probably a point early on when I gave up on blending in.
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10:58:45 AM,
Tuesday 25 May 2004
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