Sigma Update: “On the Floor” items have been fully implemented. Meaning, you can define an item and then place it in a room. This is kewl, as they say.
Oh, and Family Guy was decent. It better improve, but I’m glad it’s back.
American Dad Episode #1 was worse than the pilot, but it’s still better than 99% of what’s on TV right now.
Longhorn is teh 5uxx0r.
First MUD update in a long time:
I just modified the Makefile to compile with Python 2.4 (Slackware 10.1).
Okay, so it wasn’t a big update. But at least it’s progress!
Worst … Trojan … Ever
The scary thing about this is especially apparent if you know what a .chm file is. IT’S A HELP FILE! Why does a HELP FILE format need to have functionality/holes to the point that it is a security problem? This is a compiled, html help file! Good grief!
While killing a few late-night brain cells watching that retarded “Room-Raiders” show on MTV, I actually encountered a girl who spoke like the female version of Mr. Slave from South Park. “Like, o-oh my gaawdd.”
The very possibility you could sign up for a show like that and leave silicone bra inserts and a … toy … in plain sight in your room definitely should qualify you for some kind of special education federal grant. Not to mention one of the girls who got rejected said, “He looked like the typical college frat guy. Not really my type.” Yeah, I’ll make sure to defecate in my pants the day a nerd gets on a show like that.
By the way, new test to see if you’re using a good word. Google for it. If an online dictionary comes up as the #1 search result, you’ve got yourself a ten cent or greater word. Defecate passed this test.
I can really imagine how funny it would be if a nerd got on that show.
“SPF 100, I like that. Shows caution. Definitely prepared for a minute or two in the sun. Computer manuals…awesome. I wonder if he could write me a ‘Hello, World’ program in FORTRAN. So romantic. Oh! I collect Green Lantern comic books, too. DC comics like totally rule. And I love the Speed Racer briefs. Sexy man.”
Whatever. To sleep.
Am I losing my identity? Am I out of touch with my heritage?
I just browsed around apple.com, spec’ed out a low-end iBook, and said, “Gosh, that’s hot. If I was buying right now that’s what I’d get.”
WTF?
Rationale (much needed):
CPU performance increases at this point are trivial to me. I program, read Slashdot, create documents, and do some media work. OS X would handle all of those extremely well, especially since it’s just a Unix system, complete with Bash, X Windows, and GCC/G++ for compiling. I don’t need a bunch of HDD space, and if I did I would add it externally with USB so I could tote it around between different machines.
Plus, I would probably code via an SSH/X forward from my Slack box anyway, which I could accomplish easily with OS X and a wireless network. In fact, I’m already writing documentation over an SSH/X tunnel from Windows XP thanks to PuTTY and Cygwin’s free/free Windows X server.
If you’re not up on that, what this means is that I’m having programs on my Slackware box forward all of their graphics drawing information over an encrypted network connection to my Windows machine. The Windows machine is running an X Windows graphics server, which then renders the remote Linux windows on my Windows machine as a normal application on my desktop. In other words, it’s FBM, baby. F’n black magic.
OS X would do all of this beautifully, while still looking pretty, running fast, and giving me the media capability that I’ve always wanted. With an external DVD burner I could dye my hair green and become a hippy. That would kind of be fun.
This raises all kinds of doubts in my mind: Am I gay? Can I still vote Republican? Is Steve Jobs my daddy?
I was actually more of a Woz fan all along, but I’ve been closeted until now. The IIe is still in my room back home, and it still runs, by golly. I attribute this almost exclusively to The Woz. Is it time for me to return to the fold? To accept my roots as an AppleBASIC programmer?
I wonder if you can still type “CATALOG” at a terminal and list a drive’s contents (I don’t think they had directories back then, actually). Something tells me no. But I would try.
SSH/X tunneling on OS X
See below post.
Holy Code Ninjas, Batman! 10 Million Lines of Code!
God help them. Wish they could get it out sooner.
“Clippy” for RPG’s
Awesome.
It’s really unfortunate that I’m so busy right now with projects, because I’m actually reviving the Sigma MUD project. The combat system is almost complete, and I’m currently typesetting it with LaTeX, XFig, and Gnuplot.
There’s a lot of math in the system, and I think it will work well because it presents very straightforward solutions to the normal problems of game design.
We’ll see…