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Day Thirteen: Long Day’s Journey Into Nothing

Selkcip — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:13:38 +0000

I spent most of my time awake failing to comprehend the equations I was writing. Then I stayed up too late again playing games…

Summer is…Lazy

Selkcip — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:41:58 +0000

So I haven’t posted for (wow, just looked, I started the last 3 post “So…”) a while, not that anyone reads this. Facebook is helpful for staying in touch with people I suppose, though i wasn’t able to find any of my friends from England. The last few days I’ve been trying to get Ubuntu running on my laptop. Ubuntu is actually a really great distro, it recognizes almost all your hardware out of the box (ok off the live cd) and is ready to go. However, my laptop is also a tablet and Ubuntu requires some configuration to get it taking advantage of this fact. I fucked up big time once and reinstalled (though it may not have been necessary, but it did get dvd playback working). Today, I finally managed to get it all working, except for the accelerometer (for which no driver exists). I then promptly fucked it up again somehow killing my keyboard. After a good deal of copying and pasting I managed to discover the problem and right it. The only problem is, now that I’m done setting up, what do I do now?

If by some chance someone trying to configure their tablet with ubuntu happens upon this post, I’d be happy to point you in the right direction.

Birthdays Suck

Selkcip — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:10:35 +0000

Not really, but writing a plugin to display them on the correct days does. I just spent most of the day and morning working on this thing. Pretty much I can add names and birthdays to the database and then a box appears up at the top of my blog when one of those birthdays occurs. If it’s still before the 22nd then you will be seeing said box above this post right now. Now I just have to ask if my friends are ok with having their first name or nickname, their age, and birthday plastered on the internet, I assume they won’t mind since it doesn’t really tell much about them, other than, obviously, their age. I got stuck for a long time trying to get the stuff showing up on the correct days and displaying the right time, when I fixed one thing the other broke and I spent a good while trying to figure out what I had done. Of course it was one of those stupid errors that you don’t see because you thinks it’s right, but it’s not. Turns out I was trying to shove a month in the form of a string into a parameter that wanted a month as an int. I’m too tired to do any more.

Finals and Bands

Selkcip — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:15:40 +0000

Today had my History and poetry finals. History was ok; that is, I thought I did well, until my teacher came to my poetry final and told me to come to study hall when I was done. i thought it was because my second essay was near complete shit, but then that doesn’t actually make sense, he wouldn’t give me time and force me to fix it. No, it turns out that I missed a entire page of multiple choice questions and he didn’t want to have to take away all those points, so he let me finish them. It makes sense that I missed some because when I was taking it, I reached the end of the first set of multiple choice and was surprised because it hadn’t taken me that long. Poetry on the other hand was horrible, we had to prepare 3 outlines for different essays before hand and we would be told in class which to write. Turns out that we got to choose, unfortunately I didn’t really know what to write for any of them, so It came out as complete and utter shit. Too bad since it’s worth 100 points.

Today, instead of studying for Trig, which I will likely regret, I wrote a plugin that makes a list of bands that I have had stuck in my head and displays the latest one beneath the site title. There is also a page that display the list accessible on the sidebar or by clicking the name of the current band.

Studying Sucks

Selkcip — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:27:59 +0000

Especially when it doesn’t get done.

Shooter 4

Duel Gatling?

Selkcip — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:41:40 +0000

Fuck yes! Here’s another version of the game I’m working on:

AWSD to move, mouse aims and shoots.

Shooter V3

I really want to keep working on it, but I’ve already wasted half the day and I have yet to study for finals…witch are bullshit since they don’t really test your knowledge, only how much you can cram into your skull the day before. Although, most test I take do show my understanding because I don’t study all that much.

A Wee Something

Selkcip — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:26:42 +0000

I got some ideas for a shooter game. It’s gonna be similar to the one I made a while back, but better. Click to shoot.

Shooter

Shooter 2

So Ubelievably True

Selkcip — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:08:58 +0000

Christmas Back Home

Zelda

Selkcip — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:44:25 +0000

Last Saturday I was really bored. I couldn’t think of any programming projects, which is always depressing. So, I decided to try out “The Legend of Zelda: the Ocarina of Time,” on Project64, and it’s a lot of fun. I had never actually played any of the Zelda series and now I’m regretting that. It’s amazing what they did with this game, the Nintendo 64 graphics weren’t all that great (maybe for their time), but the designers of “Ocarina of Time” used their resources really well and it look beautiful. It’s also a really long game with quests up the ass.

Weekend!!

Selkcip — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:35:44 +0000

Huzzah! Hopefully I’ll think of something to make, because I really want to program. If I can’t think of anything to make in Flash, then maybe I’ll add stuff to the site, and if I can’t think of anything for that, then I’ll just watch TV.