“There are two kinds of pains in the ass: the obnoxious boor - to be avoided on all teams - and the person who never learned that grownups shouldn’t ask ‘Why?’ all the time. The latter is a treasure.”-Dave Thomas, on selecting job candidatesI’m sitting in on a job interview this afternoon, so I’m looking into interviewing techniques, and this quote caught my eye… (This is Dave Thomas of the Ruby community, not the fast-food community.)
Read more...Splat!
gravity = EnvironmentalFactor.new
accelerate = Behavior.new
accelerate.add_action {|target| target.vector.y += 9.8}
gravity.behaviors << accelerate
environment.environmental_factors << gravity
environment = Environment.new
i = 0
while i < 1 do
environment.objects << Creature.new(
i,
Location.new(WIDTH * i, HEIGHT * i),
Color.new(i, 1 - i, i / 2 + 0.5),
Vector.new(100 * i, i * 360)
)
i += 0.01
endNostalgia...
I dug out the archive of my old gaming site from 1999, and uploaded it here.
No need to rely on GameSpy and their ads for hosting any more. (Although it’s still up at its original location.
There’s a defunct game reviews section of the site (it’s not even linked from the main pages) that I’m trying to salvage. For your amusement, I parsed out my favorites and posted them here.
Read more...Paging Drs. Smith, Jones, King, Leary, and Watson...
The baby is currently seeing or needs to see the following types of doctors:
-Neurosurgeon -Plastic surgeon -Neurologist -Geneticist -Urologist -Ear/Nose/Throat specialist
The most serious problem is that a “suture” between the plates in the front of his skull fused prematurely and can’t grow properly. They’ll need to open it up and insert a piece of donor bone. This doctor has a 0% rate of major complications over 17 years, but it’s still majorly scary.
When they’re done, he’ll be normal and healthy. But this is going to be a very stressful and expensive year. .
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