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After many more hours of work, I have a complete polyline editor. Each segment can be a Bezier curve or a straight line. Each node can be a cusp or have the control points smooth and optionally symmetrical. Nodes can be added and deleted and the curve can…
Continue readingFurnace is a board/card game by Ivan Lashin. The description at Board Game Geek starts like this: “Furnace is an engine-building Eurogame in which players take on the roles of 19th-century capitalists building their industrial corporations and aspiring to make as much money as they can by purchasing companies,…
Continue readingI had a fairly terrible idea to convert two $80.00 RC helicopters into a single CH-47 Chinook. The Chinook has two rotors, one forward and one aft (very different from the V-22 Osprey that has rotors on the tips of the wings). It’s a terrible idea because of…
Continue readingI drove the Defender around the house and took some video with my free hand (steering with my thumb). Here’s the video:
Continue readingI bought a new toy. I had an RC off-road truck back when I was 19 and I suddenly wanted one now because I saw just how awesome they are these days. This is a big 1/10th scale crawler with locking differentials, oil fill shocks, waterproof electronics, and…
Continue readingI finished watching the first season (volume?) of Jupiter’s Legacy. I was concerned about the quality of the writing by episode 2 and by the end of the season, I decided that this is a fairly bad show. It’s not terrible but in some episodes, I desperately wanted…
Continue readingI use Open Live Writer to create images for my blog. More specifically, I have some old posts that use the decorative borders on images ad I want to add new images that match that style; using Open Live Writer lets me have that style. I’m starting to…
Continue readingYou can tell a lot about the writers of a TV show from what they write. For instance, if every character sees an event from the same point of view, even though they are a diverse set of people who would, in real life, have different viewpoints, the…
Continue readingMy blog site has been compromised. I have no idea how someone can access the site and replace WordPress blog files with their own malicious crap. But they do it. it’s not even clear what they get from it because my host disabled malicious files as soon as…
Continue readingI write software for a living (in case it wasn’t obvious). You can read about my job history in other posts and see that I spent 18 years using C++ in the biotech industry before my current app developer job. In those 18 years, I did sometimes write…
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