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Someone contacted me asking about planetary [internal] gears. I gave it some thought and implemented it in about 2 hours. A bunch of that time was me figuring out how to automatically find the gear radii based on just the ratio. The gear with the larger ration value…
Continue readingI wrote the Tapestry board game simulator and added code to handle the first 4 spaces on each track. Since I was focused on resource gathering and not points, cards, etc, I opted to only write the code to handle choices relevant to that goal; I treated spaces…
Continue readingI needed a way to distribute a holiday gift getting guide so here it is… Pax Pamir 2nd Edition
Continue readingI don’t usually write about personal stuff. Almost no one reads my blog and those that do are probably interested in the Linkage program or are curious about… the Linkage program. I also suspect that I get a few reads of programming posts now and then (I actually…
Continue readingThis post content shows the image sizes that the blog software is managing. These sizes reflect all of the various images that are created from any uploaded image. The zero-size entries are caused by the theme adding some new sizes and then me getting rid of them by…
Continue readingI have not had much inclination to write on my blog recently. I don’t thinks it’s because of a lack of possible content, but rather because of a lack of motivation. I did post that I released a new version of the Linkage program but that was a…
Continue readingA few days ago, I went to the events.unr.edu website and entered information for the UNR Puzzle Hunt self-guided tour. I listed it as “daily” for as many years as they would accept. I entered the link to http://www.unrpuzzlehunt.com and then submitted it. A few days later, I…
Continue readingI made it 15 miles in the kayak on Saturday (Aug 19 2017). It was really neat to go around Deadman Point and see Cave Rock and South Lake Tahoe. The Route I took went around and into Glenbrook Bay and included a small detour at the end…
Continue readingStarting at Sand Harbor in the evening. The point, just above the boat being launched, is the destination four miles away. I hope to get there in an hour. The pictures were taken through a phone dry-bag so the quality is not quite great. The destination has been…
Continue readingI don’t like writing a bad review. In fact, I don’t like writing reviews. But I just can’t let this go. No Man’s Sky is just broke. It’s a fine idea for a game and it looks pretty good on my PC. It’s even quite fun. But it’s…
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