A Few Thoughts…

Every person who has ever entered a computer science degree and simply wanted to do “game programming” should read this article!

(more later, when I get off work)

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Those who I talk to often every now and then get a QC reference, or a link to a certain strip which fits their personality. Today’s strip finally saw the beginning of what I’m sure many people have been waiting for: Martin got a kiss…

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Go check it out: we got Wyatt’s new house looking pretty good. The floors look better than the pictures at the end of his gallery show! Good times all around were had in the updating of this house. Lots of hard work, but good times!
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House & Remodeling Project

I’m not a parent, won’t pretend to be. But the Family Guy episode that talks about father’s having a thing in their head go off when their kids touch the thermostat - yeah, I noticed that today…and I was right….and no, it wasn’t the fumes from the polyurethane. That just allowed us to sing the Prelude to Toccata and Fugue in D Minor perfectly, even though it’s a song for the organ.

Newsvine - Will Apple Adopt Windows?

I’m sick and tired of all these people saying “It would be great to run windows on my intel mac!” I’ve written/ranted about this in several other places, at various times, but I’m going to get my opinions out on this one here and now. Early disclaimer: I am not a mac fanboy, I own a single PowerMac G5 as my promary home machine, I have 2 windows machines that do not get much use personally (one at work handles documentation tasks), and the other 6 machines I use are all linux (gentoo by choice, RedHat by force). Oh, and I have an iPod shuffle.
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It’s stories like this (well, really a link within a link in the story) which really makes me wish a paid more attention in my assembler class…they post the disassembly, but I don’t remember what most of it means on x86, let alone ppc…

Basically, someone wrote a unix executable and got it to appear to OS X as a jpg image, when people double-clicked it, it ran and did some not-nice things. Didn’t look to be terribly malicious, but it propogated through IM somehow, and was starting to spread. So watch out!

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I never thought I really had ADD, but after reading a lot of these I think I might show signs of it. I think I posess a lot of these qualities, maybe not all of the time - but according to this, maybe I just get bored with certain qualities and move onto another one!

2. Rapid Fire Mind.

Your brain processes information at hyperspeed. You can do things in 30 minutes on a computer that might take other people hours. Downside if you’re stuck with an old machine and not enough RAM you’ll be frustrated cause it can’t keep up with the speed of your brain.

3. Multitasking at Will.

Able to run 14 apps at a time and effortlessly switch between each without breaking a sweat. Able to do several projects at a time with ease.

And then a little later…

8. Constantly Scanning your Environment.

Allows you to notice more and find information and resource that others miss. Also allows you to see possible problems before they arise, and opportunities that others may not see because they have tunnel vision vs. multiplex vision. An ADDer invented the electronic ticket.

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This looks amazing - I would love to be able to work with pictures like they show in this video! I don’t think this kind of display would overtake the market by any stretch - for one it’s probably gonna be EXPENSIVE, for two there are too many places where you can’t literally get your hands onto the screen displaying things. But it would find its way onto my desk because I love toys like this!

Oh, and I like the comment by orangetiki “but if it crashes? do you punch it to restart? ”

Note - at the time of posting, the site was slowing down a lot, and not even responding for some. YRMV

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So in my normal morning comic reading (consisting of Dilbert and QC), Jeph noted in his sidebar about a new comic he has been reading this year. Normally, I’m not too keen on some of them he reccomends (don’t like the art, and don’t find the humor too funny), but this one was pretty cool - and quite humorous at parts!. Go check it out:

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

(somehow this one managed to remain as a draft for a while, as I wrote it a few days back)

In the words of my friend Nate “Sweet Moses!” Google, has added a new link to my gmail account this morning: Chats (with the little chat bubble thing). What will they come up with next. There have been a number of times that I have been somewhere away from my computer and thought of a link that someone sent me during a chat session. I would either make a note of them on my blog, or send an email to myself, or something so I could keep track of them elsewhere. This could be promising! Two thoughts come to mind: does this count against my 2.something Gb of space, and does it work if I don’t use the Google Talk client, but still connect to their servers?

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