Jay McGavren's Journal

Ugh. Beware The Forbidden Kingdom.

Jet Li and Jackie Chan kicking each others’ asses is marvelous in concept (and in the one scene where it actually happens). Too bad most of the film is devoted to sending the Karate Kid back in time to ancient China. (Gee, wonder why that was missing from the previews?)

The scenes that don’t feature Ralph Macchio’s young clone are epic and beautiful. The scenes that do are too many to ignore.

Philistines...

( 0.000, -0.028)
( 0.000, -0.083)
( 0.000, -0.167)
( 0.000, -0.278)
( 0.000, -0.417)

Jay: Lookit! The Body’s falling!

Diana: It’s green text.

Jay: But it’s falling! There’s gravity! And it’s accelerating over time!

Diana: It’s only falling 5 times.

Jay: I can extend the loop!

[Diana walks out of room, shaking head.]

require 'chipmunk'

include CP

space = Space.new
space.gravity = Vec2.new(0, -100)
radius = 10.0
body = Body.new(10.0, moment_for_circle(15.0, 0.0, radius, Vec2.new(0, 0)))
ball = Shape::Circle.new(body, radius, Vec2.new(0, 0))
space.add_body(body)

5.times do
	space.step(1.0 / 60.0)
	puts body.p
end

Apparently the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce’s Phoenix Young Professionals site was designed in Mumbai…

Get Phoenix: Growing * Emerging * Talent As a young professional, your career is very important to you. You are smart and ambitious - and you want to be recognized for your talents and your skills. We can help you GET ahead. ... Benefits to Employers: -Attract talented employees -Compete in the competitive marketplace -Develop their workforce of tomorrow ... About Young Professionals MEET THE NEXT GENERATION ... They are a very diverse group between the ages of 25-40, are self employeed, employeed or actively seeking employment.

My mother in law gave me a Bush Out of Office Countdown calendar for Christmas, with daily quotes that show the man really is stupid.

It has a little Bush waving goodbye at the bottom of each page, that progresses a bit further each day. And, oh, that progress is SO slow.

Doing a quick experiment with NetBeans...

Gods, it’s slow as hell on Windows.