Efficient software design is strongly related to properly applied laziness and procrastination.

Yesterday, I completed construction of a Depth 1 Menger's Sponge, using 168 old business cards. The cube contains 20 6-card cubes, 24 pieces of interior paneling, and 24 pieces of exterior paneling (enough to cover the three sides that won't be attached to other cubes in a depth 2 sponge ( Read more... )

Rightsideuppedness, adj. The quality of being right-side up. "All of the Fluxx cards are now right side up, although they will probably lose their rightsideuppedness when they are shuffled."

The town of Arcata, CA has passed a law banning voluntary compliance with the Patriot Act. 89 other cities have also passed resolutions condemning the Patriot act, at least 12 more are considering such measures, and Hawaii is close to passing a state-wide resolution ( Read more... )

Last night was moderately productive. Fixed a problem that was causing the song selector to crash on Mac OS X and got autodetect of Mac OS X working so the fullscreen code works properly. Performance kind of sucks on the laptop - getting 23fps average, with it as low as 15 fps - but there still should be room for optimization. The application ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a bit interesting. Week or two ago, a guy (Chris) sent an email to the GW Anime Society mailing list saying he was writing an article on the Mac OS X version of pyDDR for macgamer.com and MacAddict, and was looking for test dancers (if you can call DDR dancing). Matt forwarded the email to me and, not having anything better to do with ( Read more... )

* Gift cards at Giant are $160/lb per $10 of value (which probably makes the $50 gift card the most expensive item per unit weight that Giant sells, at a value of $800/lb ( Read more... )

The Space Shuttle Columbia was lost during its landing approach 200,000 feet over Texas at 9am this morning. This is a sad day indeed for the space program.

This is an interesting image from weather radar showing the shuttle debris field.

Yesterday:
Them: "Here's a new html file we'd like put up on the client's website."
Me: "Ok." *clicketyclick* "Done."

Today:
Them: "Why doesn't the new form on the web page work?"
Me: "What new form?" *clicketyclack*
Them: "On the web page you uploaded."
Me: *clicketyclacketyclick* "Oh. That new form. You didn't tell me I'd have to actually do any ( Read more... )