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like a heartbeat / on the downbeat

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:

  1. to review OpenGL
  2. 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.




  1. I'm a dork.
  2. Chinese language
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The Dumb Shit You Discover When You Are Board

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.
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Who Needs OpenGL?

There really isn't a better way to reduce tension than playing loud angry music and battling the forces of hell.
Doom Classic
bob terwilleger @ nx1 commented:
get me a copy. Lets deathmath during meetings. I will
totally frag you.
david @ wdlabs commented:
Dad was here
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