Rory's Journal

Evangelists

webmaster@rory-brown.com (Rory Brown) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:44:22 -0400

I am of the opinion that you should not be able to call yourself an evangelist, unless you are truly doing great things.

You Know You're A Geek When...

webmaster@rory-brown.com (Rory Brown) — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:57:34 -0400

You know you're a Geek when you purposely open your Python interpreter instead of your calculator program.

Nets

webmaster@rory-brown.com (Rory Brown) — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:45:11 -0400

Does anyone know where I can find comically large butterfly nets? The stipulation being "comically" large.

DOSBox Updated to 0.74

webmaster@rory-brown.com (Rory Brown) — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:53:20 -0400

DOSBox got updated to 0.74 today. For those of you trying to play old DOS games this is THE program to do it with. There has been a lot of work done on it in just the last year. It will pretty much play any game out there now, and will even run Windows 3.1 for those of you that have games that only ran in Windows 16-bit, but hated Windows 95. I had one game like that called Woodruff and the Schnibble.

Anyway, good times. Here is the link: DOSBox

Good Quote

webmaster@rory-brown.com (Rory Brown) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:03:25 -0400

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

-- Linkin Park

Sins Of The Father

webmaster@rory-brown.com (Rory Brown) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:14:18 -0400

I dreamt of blood upon the shore, of eyes that spoke of sin.
The lake was smooth and deep and black, as was her scented skin.
A mask I wore as I approached, I was what I am not.
And though the pattern was unclear, it's meaning could be bought.
Drawn to Bacchus's abode, I sought there to conspire.
But it was in the city of the dead that I found my heart's desire.
I spoke to one who smelled of death, he gave me to his ears.
And crosses that were marked were made into a veil of tears.
The road was blocked, the truth was shunned, the white flag had been waved.
Reversal cost me all I had, and everything I'd braved.
And then the night became as day, I glimpsed nature's reddest claw!
The face of fear looked back at me as I gazed into the maw.
My last ally laid to waste, I ran towards the light.
I prayed for one to change my path, to give me strength to fight.
Inside a hidden chamber where I had no right to be,
I found the wheel at last, or could it be, the wheel found me.
And then the wheel went round and round, I could not find my way.
Twelve and three and turn the key, I heard the madman say.
Deep in the earth I faced a fight that I could never win.
The blameless and the base destroyed, and all that might have been.

-- Gabriel Knight

Android OS

webmaster@rory-brown.com (Rory Brown) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:59:32 -0400

Frustration is spending 30 minutes looking for a blogging app for the Droid, and then giving up and using the built in browser. I don't use Wordpress. If I need an API key to use all the features then I lose interest. It doesn't matter. After all, I do things like learn Pascal. I don't talk about personal projects of mine much, but I like to use certain things; not because its supposed to be productive, but because it connects me with the code. If the language doesn't feel clean, then I don't use it. Believe it or not, C++ feels very clean to me. As long as it is written well it can be powerful. People that complain about its problems (pointers) are unaware of how to code structures in their programs to handle it. There are guides out there that show how to avoid these pitfalls. I'll still be using it in 30 years when the robots take over. How long until AI passes the Turing test?

Hardly Soft

webmaster@rory-brown.com (Rory Brown) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:48:26 -0400

Of all the difficult things I've done in my life, the most difficult is finding a comfortable pillow. There is no science in the world that can make that easier.