The Twilight Report

dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria

2008-01-03T06:41:00

Re-watched Fight Club. I honestly don’t understand what I saw in that movie. It’s clever, and somewhat anarchic, but like Che it has more traction as a T-shirt than it does for its ideas. Ironically appropriate given the proclivities of Tyler Durden. The film reminds me of just about every frat boy I met at uni.

Re-watching Ghostbusters. The effects are cheesy, but ahh... makes me all nostalgic for New York. Good times. This remains one of my favourite films.

New TV is a good excuse to revisit my DVD library.

Also watched my second demo (e) for the first time on my new TV, and also for the first time with my new amp. Looks and sounds really good :) I decided to skip watching my first demo Final Intensity on account of it being tainted by Kari’s contribution to the project.

Playing through Super Mario Galaxy. I am less than 15 stars short of the final showdown, assuming there isn’t an encore, which there probably is. Running both the Wii and the Mac Mini through the TV has got me to thinking that if the Wiimote worked as a pointing device for the Mac Mini it would be really cool. I still think about interface design issues, even though I am destined to work on server side stuff it seems. It’s a pity that nothing works with anything else. Yay for capitalism and free markets.

like a heartbeat / on the downbeat

2006-09-22T22:24:00

Feeling overly dramatic and totally energyless tonight. sendmail should die; remind me again why we can't just use postfix instead?

I have an urge to write another computer demo. Will need two things:

to review OpenGL
inspiration

I was in a bookstore this afternoon after work and I picked up an OpenGL book. The hard bit will be the inspiration. My last demo was inspired by the number e^[1].

Who wants to be in charge of sound effects and music?

The other thing I thought about buying in the bookstore was a Mandarin/English dictionary. I decided to wait for now. I've obviously become interested in 中文^[2], but I have a few 中文 resources that I should finish with before buying new stuff. It could be a passing interest after all.

I'm a dork.
Chinese language

The Dumb Shit You Discover When You Are Board

2004-11-09T01:25:00

I have to say... things are going really well for me at the moment. I can't exactly say why... but they are very good.

Final Intensity

Since my demo (Final Intensity) runs accelerated on the fast graphics card in my dual dual PIII (dual processor, dual head... click here for pictures), I was wondering what would happen if I moved the window to the monitor being driven by the slower (but still 3d accelerated) graphics card. When the window is half on one side and half on the other, the half on the slower card freezes and the half on the fast side keeps going. So if you slowly edge the window over to the slow side, you get this weird graphic of my demo as a function of time as you go from left to right. I snapped a screen shot using The Gimp.