Meerkats, with captions. The gun show was interesting. Tons of people selling tons of things, mostly but not always related to firearms. It was really crowded, too. I saw some things that would be nice to have, but cost far too much money. I saw some other things that were completely ridiculous, like the metal [...]

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One of the mountains in the fjords near Ketchikan, Alaska. The area is wild, inhospitable, beautiful, and cold. One of the women who was on the tour here dropped an expensive digital camera into this remote Alaskan lake. Oops. I saw something that I thought looked like a memory leak in my program. (If it [...]

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There is a tradition of silly pictures involving owls on the Net. This silly owl picture is here because I don’t have any original pictures right now. Good news: I have an interview Monday with a company in Scottsdale. Bad news: If they accept me, it’s 23 miles away. Good news: Most of that 23 [...]

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Fuzzball with PAWS OUT. She does this all the time when she sits on my lap. Sometimes with both paws, so she seems to be imitating a fuzzy Superman. Any oddness in the colors here is probably due to the flash being on at such close range. One of my neighbors now has a “realtor [...]

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Everybody knows you can’t beat m4d ski11z. Whoever took this picture probably had a lot of patience. Trivia: We were trailing at the half, then somehow pulled ahead and won. John and Kelly and Trevor had a grand plan to create a sitcom set in a dentist’s office that sounded like a bizarre hybrid of [...]

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This is what I had last night when it came to graphics on the program. The images of the monsters are not 100% yet, of course–the yellow thing is just a placeholder and was created in 3 minutes using Gimp. What took the most time was actually getting the rounded rectangles working properly. GTK+ and [...]

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Professor Ashfield just doesn’t get enough recognition these days. After some fiddling and finding a really annoying bug, I have something roughly equivalent to the SDL demo program I put together earlier. The demo program draws a series of images, lines, rectangles, and text on top of each other using an alpha channel, and moves [...]

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Everybody needs a penguin catapult. Almost nothing to report. I’ve been reading Philip Wylie’s Generation of Vipers, first published in 1942, which criticizes the social institutions and people found in the USA at that time. 66 years later, lots of his criticisms still ring true. People are still anti- intellectual, TV is more of a [...]

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Some of the houses over water in Ketchikan, Alaska. The town is essentially built into the side of a mountain, and part of the town is close to/over a river. The sidewalks that are sitting on pilings here must be a total pain to maintain. Yesterday, right before going to my interview, I got a [...]

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This picture illustrates the government’s attitude towards your money. Tried to do my taxes yesterday. It was an interesting exercise in Bad Software Design and the apparent inability of some state governments to get their acts together. I have N federal exemptions according to my W-2. So on the Michigan tax form that the tax [...]

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