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Try The 3D Lander Game

You can download a copy here: https://www.rectorsquid.com/Lander/Lander.zip It’s not code-signed so you might get warnings. I’ll work on code-signing it later. You would need to connected a game controller your computer to have it work well.

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Board Game Scores are Like School Grades

I was listening to an interview on NPR with author Daniel Pink, who wrote an article for the Washington Post titled “Why Not Get Rid of Grades?” I apologize that the article is behind a paywall and the link is to a podcast. But you won’t need to see…

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Severance

I’ve been watching Severance on TV and I’ve got to say, it is a thought-provoking show. The problem is that it’s about 20% interesting and thought provoking, and about 80% artistic mystery. It’s just slow and it takes 43 minutes to convey about 10 minutes of story in…

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Are Fewer Lines Better?

I work in Java and Swift very often. Swift lends itself to writing fewer lines of code, which appeals to me because maintaining fewer lines of code always seems easier. But more importantly, fewer lines of code to do the same thing is more elegant, in my humble…

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Thanos Was Dumb

Why did no one ever mention to Thanos that killing off half of everyone would just be a 60 to 70 year delay and after that time has passed, the world and the universe would be exactly where it was when he decided to snap his fingers? Was…

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A New Slip Roll

I just got a new Slip Roll machine. It’s from Vevor, a company whose motto is something like “Touch Tools, Half Price”. It seems to be fairly accurate. This slip roll was about $200.00 and can handle 16ga steel according to its specs. I rolled some brash sheet…

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Trek X-Caliber 8 Review

A few months ago, I bought a new mountain bike. I ordered a Trek X-Caliber 8 from the manufacturer and they sent it to a nearby bike shop for final assembly. Now that I’ve ridden it for over one hundred miles (and maybe as much as 200), it…

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Snappy XO

I was just looking at http://www.snappyxo.com and their site mentioned that they had the first planar linkage design software. I sent a contact form letting them know of their mistake and I got a really nice reply from the CEO that he knows they are not the first…

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