Yep, it's Air Traffic Control, the old text-mode UNIX game. I finally found the source and a machine to run it on (my roommate's I-Book running OS X - I am impressed at the virtual lack of effort required to port it over (except for having to manually parse one of the game files, because the system didn't have the source for lex and yacc, which ( Read more... )

Just tracked down the source of a major component of my general apathy. Still not sure what to do about it ( Read more... )

... was this past Friday/Saturday night, and it was about ( Pinnacle crumbling to dust around me )

Yep, you hit the PLAY button in the third party app, and sound comes out of my hardware! (Mind out of the gutter, perverts!) I was shooting for 2..3 millisecond response times, but apparently I can't maintain anything below 10 (Since Windows threads can't be trusted to wake up in less than that, or I don't know how to make them. Yes it's already ( Read more... )

I have code to write. I have a general idea of what I must do and why. It's not getting written, because I am off sulking in the corner. I can pull up my project again, look at the SDK and headers and half-finished objects, and then all I want to do is lie down and die. The task is pretty straight-forward, and I am definitely intelligent enough ( Read more... )

Why oh why do I have to write ugly code? Because I can't do this any other way, that's why. DirectDraw on one side, editing pipeline 5..40 frames deep on the other, and the user can always switch window size and colorspace... You try getting anything done without checking if your surfaces are still there after every operation. And if you check ( Read more... )

More to the point, what were they thinking with ( Read more... )

I finally got an offer for a salaried position at my workplace. To misquote Mary Doria Russel, this is a punchline to a six-year joke ( Read more... )

So I was at this sex party, wandering around, enjoying the views, and looking for playmates (looking very passively, but more on that later). I was invited by my good friend G, along with our mutual friend H. And it wasn't your typical sex party, either -- it was very, very nice (it was the best I've attended so far, though given that I've only ( Read more... )

0. Apply these instructions upon noticing that your vehicle is vibrating in an unusual manner, while traveling above speed limit on a freeway 100 miles from home ( Read more... )