Saturday, April 24, 1999
I’ve got a new story up on Papyrus. Very cool setting; I wish more writers would work with non-standard settings. I’m getting kinda tired of pseudo-medieval worlds. I definitely plan on spending some time with Molly tomorrow, on retrieving a flying disc. The competitions are amazing; check out this photo gallery for some shots of dogs in action. Tonight, I hope to implement a very crude AI for my IRC bot’s chess […]
Thursday, April 22, 1999
Hmmm, what news to steal from Slashdot today? :-) Seriously, work has been keeping me very busy lately. Which is fine, but it hasn’t left me much time to do anything. Papyrus is a bit behind, too, a situation I will at least partly rectify tonight. *sigh* I’m starting to do some more writing on my religious fantasy novel. I’ve got a good amount of notes, […]
Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Nothing to report.
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
I spent last night working on a chess script for one of my IRC bots. Seems to work nicely, except I haven’t had a chance to test game-ending much. Still, now I can play chess with friends over IRC. Hmmm, I just thought about making a script that would display the board graphically. Not too hard, really. The deer fencing seems to be holding up well. The dogs are happy, at least. :-) […]
Monday, April 19, 1999
Well, I’m getting over my illness, but I’ve been busier than ever lately. My manager at Litton/PRC has just mandated 50-hour weeks for my group, besides the fact that I’ve started teaching another section of my VB class. I also had fun this Saturday when I remembered that Sunday was the day the youth was going to take care of the church service, and I hadn’t called anyone to remind them. I spent a panicky […]
Thursday, April 8, 1999
Eeeeek! Sorry for not getting back to this. I’ve been sick over the past few days. More as I get back into the swing of things.
Friday, March 26, 1999
First, read this Star Trek soliloquy (sp?). Brilliant. Well, what’s up? A certain giant software company has recently taken to taking pot-shots at sites that parody it, notably User Friendly: The Comic Strip and BeDope. What’s sad is, they know they don’t have a leg to stand on, this being parody and all, besides the fact that they’re attacking pretty high-profile sites that won’t […]
Wednesday, March 24, 1999
I hear Orson Scott Card is thinking of casting Jake Lloyd as Ender in his upcoming adaptation of Ender’s Game. In a way, this may not be a great idea: audiences will identify so strongly with Jake as Anakin (look at what happened to Mark Hammill). OTOH, Harrison Ford was able to break out of that mold, and actually so was Hammill after playing in the Wing Commander series. All Jake […]
Tuesday, March 23, 1999
Ish, been gone for quite awhile. But honestly, I haven’t had much of interest go on lately. I finally got the BeOS machine on the net, and I got one of those switcher things, so with a flick of a button I can use the same monitor, keyboard, and mouse for both that and my regular Win98 machine. Though I have to admit, I’m using BeOS more and more as time goes on….In any event, the switcher is a useful little tool. […]
Wednesday, March 3, 1999
Well, I ran across a very interesting website the other day: http://www.miningco.com/. It’s somewhat like Yahoo!, except that every category has an identified (human) guide to pick and choose the links there. Even better, every guide puts up articles within their category, about the state of that hobby/industry/whatever, techniques for improving oneself within that category, and so forth. Wonderful informational resource. My only complaint is how busy […]