I am going to set a goal for this time next year, and try to really stick with it. For good or for ill. My goal is to finish up Star Truck: The Cautionary Tale of Jakk Hanson and get it submitted for IFComp 2012. A little under a year from now ( Read more... )

So I'm looking back at my old Inform 7 source files from a year and a half ago, and I'm thinking "Holy crap? Did I write this? This looks kind of complex. Maybe I was possessed by someone, someone who is a much better coder than me." It's kind of daunting, how much I managed to figure out, and then forget. Hopefully it will eventually come back to ( Read more... )

Hi LJ. Good to see you again. Boy, but I am fuck all getting weary of Facebook, aren't you? Not that I'll be putting it away anytime soon, but still ( Read more... )

Oh man....look how dusty I let this place get. Never going to get it cleaned out.

Debating whether to keep LJ, or just close it down entirely for Facebook...

-TS

So the dream that I have most often is the "Oh God, it's the end of the quarter, and I've somehow forgotten about a class or classes, and I've not done any of the work, and now I have to somehow pass the final or I'll fail!". I've had this dream so many times over the past decade that it's started to develop and evolve: First came complete despair ( Read more... )

So as both of the people who read my blog may remember, sagawizard are working, ever so slowly, on a piece of interactive fiction. We might even finish it one day! But in the meantime, I've been making seperate blocks out of the more involved puzzles, in order to test them without having to play through the entire game to get to the points in question ( Read more... )

So today is my birthday ( Read more... )

I never thought the most cogent and to the point roundup of whats going on with the "Tea Party Movement" in this country would be posted up by someone in a racing motorcycle forum.

"You know when I was a little boy, there was an old negro farmer that lived down the road from us, named Monroe. He was ... (subtle laugh), I guess he was just a ( Read more... )

Eugene Robinson has a good piece today in the Washington PostA couple of my thoughts ( Read more... )

There are two more votes to go, but the first one, the big one, just passed. For better or for worse, President Obama has done the seemingly impossible and passed major reforms in healthcare; you'd think that instead of being bratty children about it the GOP would be elated, considering that they've essentially won. "How do you figure that" you ask ( Read more... )