Enso...
Ever since using the late Jef Raskin’s The Humane Environment, I’ve been using the Windows Run menu, my “cb” (read/write clipboard) utility, and a few other scripts to do a sad, modal approximation of the THE command quasimode.
cb | less
cb | wc | less
cb | upper_case | cb
web humanized.com
Well, it looks like Enso is about to replace all that. It’s out, it’s $20, and I just ordered it straight away after watching the demo video. We’ll see soon whether I regret that decision.
Read more...The chain of events this morning:
- Realized I needed to get trash to curb.
- Went to move car so I could roll huge bin out of packed garage.
- Car fails to start, or in fact do anything.
- Recalled I was told by mechanic 2 months ago battery was failing and needed replacing.
- Hooked battery up to trickle charger.
- Heard garbage truck approaching.
- Realized dog had just escaped through door propped open by trickle charger extension cord, and is racing down street toward approaching garbage truck.
- Pulled Diana's car into drive, opened door, called dog.
- Closed car door with dog inside.
- Realized garbage truck is now one house away.
- Dashed down driveway with garbage bin.
- Ignored glaring garbage collector.
- Pushed empty garbage bin back to house.
- Siezed dog from car, pulled back to house.
- Drove Diana's car to work.
I am??
I’ve had a copy sitting on my shelf forever. Guess I really need to get around to reading it.
You're Adventures of Huckleberry Finn!
by Mark Twain
With an affinity for floating down the river, you see things in black
and white. The world is strange and new to you and the more you learn about it, the less
it makes sense. You probably speak with an accent and others have a hard time
understanding you and an even harder time taking you seriously. Nevertheless, your
adventurous spirit is admirable. You really like straw hats.
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Maybe I’m falling for a ploy to generate links, but… At Dave and Buster’s on Monday night, omahanightlife.com had a couple people going through snapping photos. They asked to take ours (we were practically the only people in there, after all), and we obliged. (Though you can’t even tell I’m in the resulting photo…)
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Catching up with my bookshelf...
Hit a couple walls with Zyps… My fix to make creatures stop turning wildly after resuming an action caused them not to act at all unless they were acting on every object in the environment. Messy.
So I perused the literature again and found that a couple decent, accessible books on game AI have been written since I last looked. Added one to my Safari bookshelf, and from skimming it, I appear to be re-inventing the wheel in a couple respects. No big deal… as far as I know Zyps is still the most easily extendable AI architecture out there, and one of the few suitable for hobbyists.
And the book solved my problem, I think. Behaviors and Actions will need a little re-architecture, but it appears sweeping changes won’t be needed.
Read more...Thus far, LJXP (the LiveJournal Cross-Poster) seems to just work. That’s a lot more than I can say for WordPress’s own post by e-mail feature…
Read more...Let’s see - this makes four nights in a row now that the baby has slept only 6 hours, meaning we’ve had even less.
He is so getting moved to his own bedroom this weekend. Yay - I get my desktop back!
Read more...The baby’s been fussing since 4 AM… again. It’s bad for me, but it’s gotta be worse for Diana, since she sleeps right next to him.
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A few things were broken with my old Approach action, but now it’s much improved. There’s still one kludge left in it that keeps it from going into the main Zyps library, though…
Read more...OK, I’ve been playing around with Ruby’s YAML library, and have confirmed that I need to take Procs out of Zyps. YAML has no problem serializing a Proc, but the moment it tries to load it again, I’m hit with:
Error: allocator undefined for Proc
This is probably why things blew up when I experimented with setting up a server with DRb (which I believe sends YAML over the wire). Everything was fine until I created a creature with a Behavior. Never got a real error from that, though; it just locked up.
:::sigh::: Too bad, Procs are such a cool idea… I should probably be blaming the YAML and DRb libraries instead, but I need them more than I need Procs.
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