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. .
Read more...Hey Jack Kerouac...
I know nothing about Jack Kerouac, but a commenter quoted him in a friend’s blog, and I found it compelling…
“…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn…”
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Read more...Generics...
There’s a study group at work for the Sun Certified Java Programmer exam; just finished leading the session for collections and generics. This is not because I have any particular expertise in the area; we just each take a turn writing a study guide and leading the discussion for each chapter.
Man, am I fried. Collections are fine, but declaring classes with parameterized types (need to make a DogList class that only takes Lists of Dogs, anyone?) was confusing to everyone at the table, not just me. Good thing we’re not likely to need any of this after the exam. .
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