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March 23rd, 2009 @ 10:30 pm 1 commentYou know - it's really odd, and it happens far too often. A person says they will do something.
And then they don't.
The last post I made that actually really said anything other than post a retarded picture said that I was 'inspired'. I was. Honest. I don't remember how it felt, but I really was.
It's not that I have the attention span of a hyperactive beagle. It's that after work I have about 3 hours to myself before I have to go to bed. My schedule feels so strict sometimes, but if I do not follow it I sleep in because I stayed up too late. During the hours after work I am usually trying to find something to eat and do something other than stare at a computer screen.
That usually fails. I am really good at not doing what I actually want.
I'm considering taking the site down and letting the domain expire, because I can't commit any time to doing anything interesting with it, and I am a firm believer that if you own a domain, you should do something interesting with it. Otherwise it is a waste of disk space and bandwidth. A former co-worker used his skills to make a video blog about him and his cohort traveling the fricking world, and I am spending all my time playing Warhammer online or streaming netflix movies.
Posted in I am a retard, Life
Merry Christmas Everyone
December 10th, 2008 @ 10:07 am 0 comments
The above image was cobbled together from various images I found on the internet. Also I printed it out in black and white and taped it to my door at work. There's a contest for door decorations. I bet I win.
Posted in General, I am a retard
math is fun
August 24th, 2008 @ 3:36 pm 4 commentsI figured out what was screwed up in my math for the rotation of the element in the flash thingy from the last post. below is the version (with a different graphic) that does not suck as bad
Posted in Flash, I am a retard
Delays can only mean 1 thing
April 22nd, 2008 @ 9:32 pm 1 commentI am lazy.
But enough about that.
I recently started going outside again. It's been a while, and at first it was kind of weird going out and doing stuff by myself, but I got tired of the people I know saying I have strange taste in movies. So one day a few weeks ago I went out and saw shutter. It was kind of creepy, but not a whole lot. It was my kind of movie though. And then last weekend I saw The Forbidden Kingdom. Jackie Chan AND Jet Li. They kicked and punched the crap out of everything and it was awesome. At some point I think I am going to have to see Zombie Strippers.
I can't say that title without giggling.
On the "Gabe is boring" front, I have been reading up about python in games, and getting generally frustrated with it because while it appears that a majority of the games that do use python use it one way, I have everyone that uses python telling me to do it another way or they will point and laugh at me.
Yeah. Okay. Fine. Whatever. I am one of a billion wannabes out there that want nothing more than to make games. I try to be realistic about it. Games are very complicated bits of software. It's not like writing an online store (which I have done a few times at my current job). There's graphics (my main obsession), physics, audio, networking (if you're in to that sort of thing), design elements, blah, blah blah, blah blah. Games are fucking huge when you start from scratch.
But I have ideas bursting out of my ears in a bloody mess and then my brain starts moving a mile a minute to figure out possible solutions - How would I program it to do this or that? How do other people do it? I'll open up a piece of open source code and make my eyes water and forget about it, or do what I did while I was in college and buy a book about programming in games, only to stop reading it halfway through to play whatever new came out on the PS2/Wii/Xbox360/PC.
I'm determined now though. Some of these free games like Eternal Daughter and Cave Story fucking inspire me.
Posted in BLARGH, General, I am a retard, Movies, Swedish Howler Monkey, Video Games
I'm Old!
January 10th, 2008 @ 10:48 am 2 comments
Last Monday was my 28th Birthday, and the following day was the second birthday of this website. I don't particularly know why I waited this long to say anything about it, but eh. Oh well. Happy Birthday to us.
I got a new robot for my birthday thanks to Chris and Sarah. A little green 'beetle' robot that walks while wagging its head back and forth . Tamiya is possibly the best company ever because of the fact that they make little robot kits that cost less than 20 bucks. The box claimed that it was an 'obstacle avoiding type', but so far it's just knocked everything out of its way with its head, which is equally as awesome because robots of the future (all hail our metal overlords!) should be as destructive as possible to demonstrate their superiority over human-kind.
I had planned on getting the gallery working by the day of my birthday, but I got distracted and started tinkering with Last.Fm XML feeds (coming to the crap section soon).
My friends know that I like to tinker, but I have a habit of seeing something shiney and leaving whatever i was messing with an incomplete shambling mess that can only pathetically reach up and moan "faaaather... whyyyy don't you loooove meeeeee", but I am really happy with what I've done with this new 'crap' section on my website. It's already taken up a lot of my time because I've noticed bugs here and there (which is often the case with me because I do a lot of work while watching bad horror movies), such as the fact that I hadn't bothered to position or display the off-hand weapon/shield in the dungeon runners page. Additionally I've noticed that a lot of images are just broken, but evidently that is the fault of the Dungeon Runners development team (there's an inconsistency between the upper/lower case-ness of the names of images and the case of names of the image-name strings that appear in the xml). Kind of annoying and I am halfway tempted to just go through all the images and make all their names lower-cased so I can kick the issue in the balls myself without having to wait on a fix to the XML. Unfortunately we're talking 957 files, and while I'm sure I can do something about it with Automator in Mac OS X, I'm not really sure how to at this point.
Fun.
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