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Author Archives: James
And the stuff he worked on
Like Unguku, I tend to have a project or three running in the background. Here’s what I’ve been up to in the past months. I have a job! Soon I’ll be moving to Nowhere, AL for an internship. Weeks of … Continue reading
PC gaming is dying
You’ve likely heard it before. PC gaming is dying because the hardware is expensive, or because consoles sell more games, or this or that. Well no, actually, it’s not dying. It’s just not making as large a blip on sales … Continue reading
Atlanta Game Developer Meetup
Went to the Atlanta Game Developer Meetup yesterday. Cool group of people. Unity seemed popular. Understandable. It’s easy to use. Somewhat artsy. Free for indies, even. SIEGE is going to be a big deal locally, apparently. One person I talked … Continue reading
theme:rain
theme:rain is a small game I wrote in about ten days for Dr. Tevis’ computer graphics class. I believe it was my second or OpenGL application. It shows somewhat. For many year evil green square empire may oppressed the lowly … Continue reading
2001: A Space Odyssey Extreme
I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey with some friends last night. All two and a half hours. It’s like the Moby-Dick of films. Classic, but in sore need of a good editor. While I don’t regret watching it, it strikes … Continue reading
thesixtyone minus minus
thesixtyone, a social music discovery site, recently rolled out a new version of their site. By “new”, I mean that the user interface is almost completely removed from the previous version. See for yourself; here’s the old site and the … Continue reading
Why rotaries are fail
While driving about in the frozen Northeast region of the United States, I recently encountered an inhuman nemesis. This nemesis, not being human, was a traffic circle. The common traffic circle (also known as a rotary) suffers from several issues. I will … Continue reading
“Duck”
There are several rather obscure, underused, or nerdy words which have entered my vocabulary. These include (but are not limited to) grep, huzzah, w00t, and frob. Recently, I have realized the need for a new addition: “duck.” A bit of … Continue reading
Two observations about Google Wave
Many of the people in the CS department at LeTourneau have recently joined Google Wave. Thus far we’ve used it as a planning resource for the campus ACM chapter, for setting up a new computer lab, and a method of … Continue reading
UI Distractions
So, after a long spurt of mucking around in Windows 7, I’m back to Ubuntu 9.10 (now in beta!) One thing that’s struck me about the jump back is how much cleaner everything feels. On Windows, I’d be hard pressed … Continue reading