Competition 3 update

Yoyo games has stated that it should have the competition results posted by Thursday.

Class Blog Stardate 9.23.08

We will be doing slicing today in class, in addition to some other stuff.

After reading a blog on the Arab-Israeli conflict, here is my response.

We, the citizenry of the "civilized" nations of the Earth, must realize at long last that world peace is indeed just a fairy tale, a luxurious dream for those who can affort to conjure it due to their artificial and temporary sense of safety. Nothing in this world is secure, and certainly nothing is free. Human rights such as we feel everyone ought to be entitled to have no logical place where the harsh reality of instability and conflict dwells. We sit back out of harm's way and complain about war crimes and the like, all the while being woefully incabable of understanding the hardship of a more harsh and real existence, in which nothing is secure, and nothing is guaranteed, and there is no entitlement granted without a (life and death) struggle. Woe to us, the lazy and stupid Americans. How will it be for us, if our own security fails? What if we find that Big Brother will not always be able to catch us when we fall?

I am not anti-American, or rather I am not opposed to what America ought to be. I am, however, ashamed of what we have let it become.

Mac News

I got all my files transferred and updates downloaded. Apparently they made service pack 1 for Vista already. I assume that's a good thing.

Yay

I hear our economy is probably dying. How exciting.


...in a certain doom-saturated way.

I made a flash video just 'cause I can.

I uploaded this .flv of some sprites from the most recent version of my game, Ancient Battlegrounds. The older version can be found on the YoYo games site under competition02.

File Transfer in Progress

I've moved my video files and music files to the new computer, and also my mod tracker, though it doesn't seem to work right in Vista. I also installed Vista and Adobe updates, Xfire, and Blender.

Behold the Power of my Fully Armed and Operational Dual-boot Macbook!

Actually I have no way of demonstrating... also I guess it isn't fully armed and operational since I haven't installed everything or transferred files, but I have Game Maker and the Adobe Production Suite installed in addition to both O/Ss. Installation went reasonably smoothly except for some reason I can't get rEFIt to work, so I still have to hold down the option key when booting to select the operating system. Oh, and I got a free Mac hat and iPod Touch out of the deal, though actually they made me pay for the touch and then submit a mail-in rebate--kind of a pain, it wasted like two hours of my day on tuesday. Oh well. Now I have to figure out what to do with it...

YoYo games Update

I noticed that YoYo has replaced it's competition 3 banner and page with the competition 4 banner and page. Hopefully this means they are almost done judging competition 3.

Macbook

Well, my phone says the university called; must've been yesterday morning. That must mean my Macbook has arrived. I'll go check it out after class.

We are going to learn Dreamweaver

...At least that's what I hear. I think we're getting into that today.

Web Site 1

I finished the first Multimedia Processes 1 project and turned it in on friday. It was a personal site made in Word. I basically made a portfolio site.

Macbook

Apparently my macbook hasn't arrived yet... :(

more sprites

revision on bows

more sprites

More sprites, etc. for the game...kind of lost track of the time..good night.

Sprites

Drew Wants Me To Post Again

I didn't do anything really productive over the weekend. I guess that's okay. It was fun doing nothing important all weekend long.