An underinsured taxpayer...
Posted (in vain, I’m sure) to Sen. Jon Kyl’s Facebook wall:
I'm a productive, tax-paying, native-born American with inadequate health insurance for myself and my family. Oh, we tried to purchase private insurance, but no one will underwrite us because my wife had major surgery too recently. We wound up having to settle for a $250-a-month out-of-pocket plan. We pay an additional $300 a month for medications because there's no prescription benefit. I've gone from contractor to salaried status with my employer, so the situation will improve for me. In June, when my benefits start. Until then, I have to wait and worry about my family. Senator Kyl, I ask you, is this an acceptable situation? Is it acceptable for the millions of Americans who won't have a reprieve in a few months? -Jay McGavren, Mesa
Given Kyl’s voting record on this issue I doubt it will even be read. By Senator Kyl, that is. But at least it’ll make the topic a little harder for him to ignore.
I did this as part of MoveOn.org’s virtual march for healthcare reform. Please consider doing the same!
Read more...Ruby Tweets!
ruby -e "i=0;loop{puts ' '*(29*(Math.sin(i)/2+1))+'|'*(29*(Math.cos(i)/2+1)); i+=0.1}" #ruby
about 23 hours ago via web
ruby -rtk -e "w=TkCanvas.new(TkRoot.new{title:paint});w.pack.bind('B1-Motion',proc{|x,y|TkcOval.new(w,x,y,x+4,y+4)},'%x %y').mainloop" #ruby
about 3 hours ago via web
Almost got this one short enough to tweet:
ruby -rtk -e"v,w=0,0;a=[1]*9;c=TkCanvas.new;c.pack.bind('Motion',proc{|x,y|a<<TkcLine.new(c,v,w,v=x,w=y,:arrow=>'last');a.shift.delete rescue 1},'%x %y').mainloop"
Killing the Pegasus...
Going salaried at my current employer, and have to fill out a job application as a formality. So I was digging around for past employer info in my archives, and came across this e-mail, sent on the occasion of departing Pegasus Solutions…
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 From: Me User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) To: John Subject: Re: New job! John McGavren wrote: > What level are you now, and what did you put your stat points into? > Oh! I'm curious about the loot you got from killing the pegasus too. > Any tomes of knowledge? Or swords? Um, no. But I am gonna take my stapler with me. -JayRead more...
Jemini Tutorial (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 2 of our tutorial, we’ll create some enemies for our player to fight. We’ll set up collision detection, use timers to make a pretty fading effect, and set up a custom manager to coordinate enemy movements and shooting.
Be sure to visit jemini.org for help on starting your own game!
You can view part 1 here.
Read more...Jemini Tutorial (Part 1 of 2)
Jemini is a Ruby-based framework for game development. In this screencast, we’ll create a shooter game from scratch.
Part 1 shows creating a project, setting up a game state, loading animations, music and sound effects, and setting up keyboard input and event handlers. (Not bad for 22 minutes, right?)
You can view part 2 here.
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