It’s not very much*, but it represents my first tentative steps towards doing something visual with PyGame. “But,” you object, “what happened to that C++ project you were working on?” Basically, I got bored**. I have a fairly high tolerance for doing background research before jumping into a project, but the sheer volume of required [...]
Expressed here as a tag cloud. The source code itself is nothing special; it’s just an easy way to test my knowledge of C++ as it grows.
In June 2003, I flew to South Dakota for field training: the AFROTC equivalent of boot camp. Three weeks later, having failed three PT tests, all due to pushups, I was ejected with prejudice. This led to my forcible disenrollment from ROTC, and the transmutation of what had been a nice scholarship into a loan. [...]
One of my friends here strongly identifies as a goth. She seems to have two uniforms: the one she wears to work, and the full goth regalia she dons in her free time: multiple heavy belts, black forearm gloves, spike-studded bracelets, the works. She sometimes wears clothing that isn’t black, but only if it fits [...]
I may not want to be a cartographer, but I may not have the choice; it seems to be an integral part of tactical helicopter flight. Zombie lady! Might actually be real! I am going to a waterpark tomorrow. It should hopefully be more fun than the last carnival I was at. After two months [...]
Today was the last day of the Instruments section of flight school. I therefore had to take a check ride: a flight with an alternate instructor pilot whose sole job in the flight was to evaluate my performance. The weather was perfect for an instrument check ride: overcast and hazy; just above the minimum weather [...]
It works fairly well, for me at least, to proceed in stages: write a paragraph or three. Then read a short story. I haven’t gone through the process of figuring out whether my story or my book of short stories will be finished first, though I’m hoping the former. In the case it’s the latter, [...]
I tried to explain over pizza tonight what exactly I found fascinating about the hippies. My friend was of the opinion that they were all wasting their lives and brains and morality through their drug use and free love and so forth. What I wanted to express was that there were also examples of wonderous [...]
Say that you are buddies with a top computer scientist. He has been working for DARPA on an AI project. He succeeds! True AI! Over the period of a few months of shakedown trials and training of the new AI, you befriend it. This time ends when your buddy announces to DARPA project success, so [...]