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Quick updates: X | moving | phone
Jun. 19th, 2008 10:25 pmI've completed Project X's logic library to my satisfaction, and have begun to figure out how the UI's gonna work. All my recent game-UI experience has involved working with raw SVG directives, so it's interesting to approach a modern high-level game programming API with that oddball background. Creating sprites by plotting rectangles directly onto the screen is quite familiar. Less so is how they all insist on being pointed to on-disk bitmap image files which they can then paint onto themselves. So I'm going to spend some time in graphics programs generating some artwork, before jumping back into the code. Lots of scanning to do, in this case...
Yes, I think I can get away with entirely 2D graphics for this game. Certainly for the prototype, anyway, and that's all that matters for now. Sadly, even the latest beta of VMWare still can't let Windows take full power of my MacBook's graphics card, so I'm going to have to go back to rebooting into Windows every time I want to do work on X from now on... boo. At least until I get local access to a halfway decent PC, a sub-project that is indeed underway. (Have decided to pass on the rar-rar gaming rig that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mr_choronzon advised me on, for now. Cheaper options have arisen.)
Still moving on August 1, and the traffic of strangers tromping through my apartment is getting a little ridiculous. Especially when they have a less than perfect hit-rate for warning me ahead of time. I accidentally opened my front door into the face of a rental agent as I entered my own apartment this evening, returning from a ten-minute coffee break. Apologies exchanged, and now I've learned that I'm getting at least three separate visits tomorrow!
I've had plenty of these sorts visitors already, over the last couple of weeks, but the rate's getting nuts now. I'm going to straighten the place up some tonight. At first I didn't care if lookers-at found it messy, but I'm quickly wishing that someone please hurry up and find it attractive enough to sign for, so they'll all leave me alone!
I have once again downgraded my cellphone. The normally tolerable Sony Ericsson that I got in 2004 "candy bar" has a loose antenna or something, and all conversations are filled with loud static unless I squeeze very hard and stand very still. So once again I charged up my circa-2001 Nokia something-or-other, which I've kept as a trusty backup (cthulhia will remember it as the BLAH blah BLAH model), and swapped my SIM into it. I had forgotten what a damn fine phone this is. I'm still on-track to buy an iPhone after its July release, but I'm no longer desperate for one. It's a real relief.
Yes, I think I can get away with entirely 2D graphics for this game. Certainly for the prototype, anyway, and that's all that matters for now. Sadly, even the latest beta of VMWare still can't let Windows take full power of my MacBook's graphics card, so I'm going to have to go back to rebooting into Windows every time I want to do work on X from now on... boo. At least until I get local access to a halfway decent PC, a sub-project that is indeed underway. (Have decided to pass on the rar-rar gaming rig that
mr_choronzon advised me on, for now. Cheaper options have arisen.)Still moving on August 1, and the traffic of strangers tromping through my apartment is getting a little ridiculous. Especially when they have a less than perfect hit-rate for warning me ahead of time. I accidentally opened my front door into the face of a rental agent as I entered my own apartment this evening, returning from a ten-minute coffee break. Apologies exchanged, and now I've learned that I'm getting at least three separate visits tomorrow!
I've had plenty of these sorts visitors already, over the last couple of weeks, but the rate's getting nuts now. I'm going to straighten the place up some tonight. At first I didn't care if lookers-at found it messy, but I'm quickly wishing that someone please hurry up and find it attractive enough to sign for, so they'll all leave me alone!
I have once again downgraded my cellphone. The normally tolerable Sony Ericsson that I got in 2004 "candy bar" has a loose antenna or something, and all conversations are filled with loud static unless I squeeze very hard and stand very still. So once again I charged up my circa-2001 Nokia something-or-other, which I've kept as a trusty backup (
cthulhia will remember it as the BLAH blah BLAH model), and swapped my SIM into it. I had forgotten what a damn fine phone this is. I'm still on-track to buy an iPhone after its July release, but I'm no longer desperate for one. It's a real relief.(no subject)
Jan. 6th, 2004 12:24 pmThis morning it was a new poster at the Park Street T station advertising (I think) a community college, and featuring a couple of smiling yoots in close-up. Someone had already attacked it in the necessary way, blacking out teeth, but instead of the usual Dali mustaches added nose studs and divers other facial piercings, which I find to be a new and exciting application of adivertilogical technology.
Phone camera
Jan. 3rd, 2004 01:50 am
Finally got my phone's picture-mailing feature to work, as seen with this depiction of my housemate. (Some of you may have met him; he's about two feet tall and hangs out near my TV.)Yeah, well... I got the cheapest one they had (a Sony Ericsson T610, if you must know), and this is about what I expected. For a camera somehow hacked into a phone that's the same size and shape as my previous one, and obviously lacking a flash (this photo was taken with "night mode" turned on, and I'm very curious about what that actually does), it ain't bad. I'm sure I'll have some fun with this. Looking forward to setting up auto-blogging scripts this weekend...!
Who told the weather that it could be all warm again? Grah.
Again I say: why isn't this business headline news? Gorgeous weather spikes paranoia in area man or its equivalent would fit in nicely under all that Patriots plap.
Speaking of, I enjoy seeing cool people enjoying sports, even though I do not at all. I think being uninterested in sports is one thing, but it takes extra mental focus to live in Boston and not care at least a little about Boston (or New England) teams. (And it requires vein-popping psychic resistance to feel nothing for the Red Sox, but it's not time for that yet.)
Anyway: yesterday I finished my rewrite of that section (it's about Perl and XML and Unicode, yus, funsy-wunsies) and the combination of feeling satisfied with a writing assignment and the warm weather made it difficult not to misperceive myself as having just finished a spring semester term paper for college. Hum.
In Diesel now. Happy. Other things about this place: it has a higher Room rating than the 1369 (to further abuse The Sims as a metaphor generation unit). More space, big glass front, booths and couches in back if you're lucky enough to score them. And, yes, as cthulhia points out, I'm more likely to bump into friends here. (However, I should note that my reuniting with Noah and Melissa occurred the very first time I ventured into the 1369, last summer.)
On the minus column, my cellphone doesn't work in here. It does in the other place. I just now wandered outside to call Erik, and ask if he wanted to sink some time into rewriting one particular section that we've been getting some strange remarks about. He said: Uuurgh, because he is swamped in his own work. So it looks like it's all me for the next two days. Hum hum hum. We'll see.
Again I say: why isn't this business headline news? Gorgeous weather spikes paranoia in area man or its equivalent would fit in nicely under all that Patriots plap.
Speaking of, I enjoy seeing cool people enjoying sports, even though I do not at all. I think being uninterested in sports is one thing, but it takes extra mental focus to live in Boston and not care at least a little about Boston (or New England) teams. (And it requires vein-popping psychic resistance to feel nothing for the Red Sox, but it's not time for that yet.)
Anyway: yesterday I finished my rewrite of that section (it's about Perl and XML and Unicode, yus, funsy-wunsies) and the combination of feeling satisfied with a writing assignment and the warm weather made it difficult not to misperceive myself as having just finished a spring semester term paper for college. Hum.
In Diesel now. Happy. Other things about this place: it has a higher Room rating than the 1369 (to further abuse The Sims as a metaphor generation unit). More space, big glass front, booths and couches in back if you're lucky enough to score them. And, yes, as cthulhia points out, I'm more likely to bump into friends here. (However, I should note that my reuniting with Noah and Melissa occurred the very first time I ventured into the 1369, last summer.)
On the minus column, my cellphone doesn't work in here. It does in the other place. I just now wandered outside to call Erik, and ask if he wanted to sink some time into rewriting one particular section that we've been getting some strange remarks about. He said: Uuurgh, because he is swamped in his own work. So it looks like it's all me for the next two days. Hum hum hum. We'll see.
payments and payments
Jan. 4th, 2002 06:35 pmI finally got a cellular phone today. Mail me if you need the number.
I wanted to get in on the same calling plan thatcthulhia scored, but the nice VoiceStream lady told me that my credit rating was in a state of "still being established", which I took to mean as something like calling Afghanistan a "developing nation". So, I had to choose a somewhat more expensive plan or nothing at all, and fork over a two-month security deposit to boot. Shrug... I took it anyway. It took me a long time to build the resolve to march in there and get that phone. (Well... it's more than since I've become more social, and differently busy in general, I several times a week have been finding myself in moments where I wish I had a phone on my person.)
So far I am pretty happy. The phone is wee, charges very quickly, and works when I call myself. It gives me an excuse to get an AIM account, too. (You wouldn't necessarily guess it, but AIM is the IMer of choice among a lot of ORA-centered hackers I know.)
I remember when I hit the halfway mark of my car's five-year lease; it didn't seem like too long ago. Today, to write my latest payment check, I looked at my account information online, and noticed that it ends in November 2002. Say, that's the year I've started writing on my checks.
You just blink your eyes, and out the door they go, all grown up.
The same site says that, the way things are looking now, I'd have to part with another $10,000 after the lease matured if I wanted to purchase the car. Hmm. I dunno. We'll see what happens.
I wanted to get in on the same calling plan that
cthulhia scored, but the nice VoiceStream lady told me that my credit rating was in a state of "still being established", which I took to mean as something like calling Afghanistan a "developing nation". So, I had to choose a somewhat more expensive plan or nothing at all, and fork over a two-month security deposit to boot. Shrug... I took it anyway. It took me a long time to build the resolve to march in there and get that phone. (Well... it's more than since I've become more social, and differently busy in general, I several times a week have been finding myself in moments where I wish I had a phone on my person.)So far I am pretty happy. The phone is wee, charges very quickly, and works when I call myself. It gives me an excuse to get an AIM account, too. (You wouldn't necessarily guess it, but AIM is the IMer of choice among a lot of ORA-centered hackers I know.)
I remember when I hit the halfway mark of my car's five-year lease; it didn't seem like too long ago. Today, to write my latest payment check, I looked at my account information online, and noticed that it ends in November 2002. Say, that's the year I've started writing on my checks.
You just blink your eyes, and out the door they go, all grown up.
The same site says that, the way things are looking now, I'd have to part with another $10,000 after the lease matured if I wanted to purchase the car. Hmm. I dunno. We'll see what happens.
