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I have a pretty nice digital camera. This is counterintuitive, since in tech years it’s actually of dinosaur age and therefore can’t possibly be as good as the sexy little numbers you can buy these days. It’s served me well over the past few years, and I have done it a great disservice by not [...]

For those of you who are, like me, fighting with computers to make them do things, spare a thought for our forefathers:

As a marker, that pdp-11 held 32KB, and my project currently runs to 16MB, and that does not include the 50 or so Megabyte application container.
PS: Ok, so academics make poor actors, but it’s [...]

IceCream got me thinking. The RPG experience is one where you choose to be someone else. If that person is good, bad, or indifferent, it’s a reflection on you, the player.

Folks around here know the value of an ego boost. Experimentalists generally have their “feel-good” reactions, one or two reactions they can do and be guaranteed success in the form of whatever makes them happy. (In undergrad, my “feel-good reaction” made a lot of crystalline purple material, and involved using a hair dryer in an [...]

I spent about an hour last night bashing my head against a script that just wouldn’t work for me. People have been using it for ages, no one has complained, it’s a simple script written by a smart person so there shouldn’t be any weird bugs, etc. I just kept getting empty files. Finally, in [...]