Last week, I was exhausted and bored and thought I’d try out a new MMORPG. Many people, such as Brad, would decry such a pastime — but I can find it enjoyable at times.
Long ago I would play a relatively simple Asian MMORPG known only as Pristontale. I found, in my search, that by now they had made a Pristontale II. Cool. I downloaded it.
It was big. I ran out of time to play it in by the time it had finished downloading and installing, so I decided I’d try it out later.
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The title of this blog is a lie, but I am feeling somewhat ill all of a sudden tonight. I am unsure as to the cause, but I imagine the effect is amplified by my recent poor care for my own well-being, with regard to things like sleep and relaxation.
However, something cool happened to me recently. I was attending my solid state electronics lecture, and trying to listen to the professor talk. Then, the lecture ended. Last lecture he had assigned reading — this lecture, he assigned only problems. Good student that I am, I asked the professor what reading he would recommend be done for the next lecture, as I had numerous bus rides ahead of me. He told me. And I did the reading he told me of.
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I haven’t blogged for a while.
But, you know — today it snowed. It was, they say, a “snow day”.
Resultingly, classes were canceled. It happens sometimes. All the schedules enter disarray; syllabi are crumpled and rewritten.
I had a dilemma, however. I had a lab due today. A lab I had forgotten about until this morning. A lab, that is expected handed in by the start of the next class session — the next class session scheduled today, at 11:45 AM. And a professor that accepts submission by e-mail.
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Shaun is totally beating me at posting. I guess I’d better get on the ball. By the way, if you consider yourself a part of the GC community and want to be able to post, you should contact Brad on google talk.
So, I’ve been working on this thing, project name ‘Choreography’. It’s really just a utility — an interface into a part of a personal library I’m developing: ‘kdance’. The intent of kdance is to do for me everything I would ever need to do with skeletal animation. The problem is that it is a set of functions instead of a set of buttons. Choreography resolves this.
Unfortunately, in order to perform the function -> button transition effectively, one needs the arcane concept of a ‘gooey’ — a common device for interfacing with functions in a visual way. This device is the largest blocker between me and creating useful programs.
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