School starts in one week. I hate it. My first day will last 12 hours, mostly lab time. I do not feel capable of making anything with Game Maker right now. Or ever. I probably will start again. Sometime. I want to make a tactical RPG epic, I even started …

So it took me two weeks, but I finally got my laptop to get back on the internet. Turns out, my new 2.4 GHz cordless phone and my wireless router run on a similar enough frequency to annihilate each other's reception. For the time being, I can get by with …

I know you hate short blog entries, but it's really hard to type with this wiimote. Still cool though.

So last month my 76 year old grandmother got in a small wreck, no one was hurt, but she got a ticket and had to go court to pay the fines. Being a good grandson I drove her to her court date yesterday morning at 7:30 am. It was a …

I found a problem with Game Maker. It cannot handle small numbers. I was doing more work on my Satelite Orbit Mimicker program when I discovered this. I was using a new code for the gravity calculations, this was close to the exact stuff:

gravity_direction = point_direction(x,y,Planet.x,Planet.y)
gravity = (6.67*10^-11)/(point_distance(x,y,Planet.x,Planet.y)^2 …

I got Final Fantasy III for the DS last week. The graphics continue to amaze me. I am old enough that I remember Zelda 1 having kick ass graphics, now I can get graphics slightly better than a N64 on a piece of hardware the size a checkbook. I even …

This is a short blog. Short on purpose. It will attract the mods attention, and maybe initiate action. I have seen a lot of people using their 100x100 pixel preview pics as screenshots for their games/examples/WIPs, and I am annoyed by it. I am pretty sure others are too. Isn't …

I was in WalMart the other night and noticed a new accesory for the Nintendo DS. I didn't buy it, it was $40. But it was a device that plugged into your DS and had a port for an SD card. The card was sold seperately, so it woulb be …

I just set up a myspace page and I don't know why… I think xanga had a better system for changing the appearance of the profile page. Myspace apparently only uses html. The problem is, I don't know one bit of html. Can any of you give a real quick …

I figured I'd share this while some of us were on the subject. It's from an article from the New Yorker by Lawrence Wright from September 2006. He interviewed several terror experts, including Jordanian Fouad Hussein, who cites a 20 year plan that al-queada is distributing for the creation of …