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Monday, January 19th, 2009
11:47 pm	Windows program that does nothing: ~10k packed add openGL initialization: ~12k packed add some geometry generation and data structures: ~15k packed add tracker playback and small mod: ~20k packed add texture code and unicode support: ~30k packed ... remove specific runtime lib, use default runtime libraries: 8k packed?!?! the mysteries of the packer are beyond my understanding. Good thing - I was running out of space doing jack shit. Current Mood: surprised Current Music: Dead Disco - The Treatment READ(4) , WRITE
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
12:20 am	Oh yeah, and you need to see a steam powered R/C centipede. READ(2) , WRITE
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
10:07 pm	( I'm making stuff again ) READ(4) , WRITE
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
4:58 am	In other demo-related topics, I am about to buy plane tickets to Germany for April, flying over there for Breakpoint. I would like some advice from American sceners, especially those that have made this trip, on what I should know about Bingen am Rhein, where to stay, what's difficult, that kind of thing. Really, any sceners advice is welcome, but I think Americans would understand my screwed up point of view the best. READ(9) , WRITE
1:23 am	Today I saw how base85 encoding and LZW compression work (in javascript). VERY FUNNY WURST WRITE
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
1:22 am	When people say, "I learned a lot during this project," they mean, "I spent an incredible amount of time making mistakes." Current Mood: learning a lot Current Music: dane - round_and_round.sid READ(4) , WRITE
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
8:59 pm	Snackebana Snackebana There's an art to arranging a pile of junk food so it looks appealing. READ(12) , WRITE
Thursday, January 1st, 2009
2:30 am	Tost NYE 2008 photo.jpg New Years Eve 2008, at Tost with KDarr and EdC and Lily the veterinarian. This is "Marmalade". They are playing "Foxy Lady," which prompted the lady on the left side of the frame to stand up on a table and start doing the foxy lady dance. READ(2) , WRITE
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
5:05 pm	Ok, I thought I was doing it wrong, but maybe motion blur on perpendicular-moving single pixel lines just looks dumb. Like dim rectangles. Actually there's still a pretty good chance I'm doing it wrong. READ(5) , WRITE
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
10:17 am	Halp I was gonna go out on the balcony and hang out on my chair, but it looks like something is already sitting there. Actually, it's a little easier to get around now that the ground is covered in snow instead of a sheet of ice. Now I know why people from really snowy places think they're such badasses in the snow. Incidentally, the current easiest way to find out where someone is from is to complain about the snow as if it were a hardship. Then they'll come out with "I'm from ________, this is nothing!" I'm from Hawaii, guys. I don't even have a word for this material. Current Music: gloom - stargazer READ(16) , WRITE
Sunday, December 21st, 2008
3:50 pm	From now on this is a chair-pics only LJ My balcony is my very own private snow garden, which will soon be a big dome of snow with chairs and (dead)plants embedded in it. In other news, cleaning the old grounds out of your burr grinder with compressed air is a good way to flock your kitchen with coffee grounds. READ(3) , WRITE
Saturday, December 20th, 2008
10:04 pm	It sure is snowing here. Walking around on the hill is like walking up and down a really long beach, except the sand is a little more scrunchy. Also, I can't feel my hands. WRITE
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
3:04 pm	Somebody put shave ice all over my house. READ(15) , WRITE
Monday, December 8th, 2008
8:02 pm	Why is the MacOSX Sidplay so ficking incredible? I mean, there's the DOS sidplay, there's the various linux ports, and then there's the MacOSX one waaay out there by itself. Last update to SIDPLAY/Windows was in 2002! Last update to SIDPLAY2 itself was 2004. They're fine. I mean, they got me through years of having no functioning C64 (actually having one with no video, and one with no sound), but they're just functional. The MacOSX one looks like something you'd buy. It automatically syncs with HVSC, and updates itself periodically. It has a filter distortion DSP built in. Searching the HVSC is fast, you can export to MP3/AAC/whatever with a single menu command. Does not crash. It just kicks all sorts of ass. HOW COME! Well, okay, credit is due to Andreas 'MrSID' Varga. I don't know exactly how much credit, but most likely all of it. The only problem is that it makes me wish that it were as integrated with the iPhone as it is with MacOSX. You can fit the entire HVSC in about 60 MB last time I checked, about 270 MB uncompressed into 36k files or so. That can be crammed into the smallest ipod shuffle with ease. But no. This hasn't been implemented, though a couple of people claimed to be starting this project. There is hope, though. Mr. SID himself commented on one of those projects asking to be kept updated so he knew work wasn't being duplicated. Hmmm...duplicated? So he might be working on such an app! READ(7) , WRITE
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
12:57 am	You can't just go to Storables and buy a bunch of crates during this time of year. It's a special commerce-holiday, and commerce really likes celebrating itself! In your face! The soundtrack for this is traditional religious music, either Christian or Pagan-derived, remixed by a plethora of contemporary artists. Now, I like a hymn as much as the next guy - but when you remove it from its original context of gravitas and rearrange it to be perkier and toe-tappingly catchy, you now have the musical equivalent of cheez-wiz. Cheez wiz, in storables, while you're trying to find something that can neatly contain 12 years of instruction manuals. frippy has described in detail the sins of the Christmerce album. The reinterpretation of lyrical meters is the worst. Christmas music is so orthogonal and plodding that everyone feels obligated to jazz it up a little - syncopate or swing (or both), hold onto pauses until you have enough syllables saved up to spit out a passionate riff or two. This does not translate well to "little drummer boy," all right? What? No, I'm not a "scrooge". Complaining about christmas albums is a sacred tradition. I haven't heard any remixed Hanukah music, but I bet you could make something really irritating with Britney and that dreidel song. Current Mood: merry Current Music: Jingle Cats - Meowy Christmas READ(5) , WRITE
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
6:58 pm	Wearing my "I voted" sticker out to the local nail biting/result watching party with all the sexually deviant intellectual elites that live in my neighborhood. READ(3) , WRITE
Monday, October 6th, 2008
8:10 pm	Man... when did cheese start tasting so good? Is it a sign that I'm elderly? READ(13) , WRITE
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
12:18 pm	It's candid photo meme day It's candid photo meme day Ok, so maybe I slouch a little bit. Since it's supposed to be unposed, I just had photobooth snap and upload whatever it was looking at. READ(2) , WRITE
Monday, September 1st, 2008
12:15 am	Finally back from PAX 2008. I think I'm about done with conferences for this year, unless something really compelling comes up and is happening across the street. I think I caught a throat cold from some of those tens of thousands of people I was around (or maybe it's just from constantly breathing air which was a flavor somewhere between hotdog and bean dip), so I'm going to lie in bed eating ice cream until I am forced to go back to work. READ(5) , WRITE
Friday, August 29th, 2008
1:19 am	In brief, I went to NVScene demoparty and it was a life changing experience. So yeah, Bingen am Rhein next year, Easter! Current Mood: learning CUDA Current Music: lots of fans READ(8) , WRITE