I gave my sister a copy of Small World for Christmas. For those who are not aware, I am pretty serious about my board games. If you are interested in game design, as I am, there’s often a lot more meat in a board game than in a computer game. So yeah. I guess you [...]
This was a great week on the job hunting front. Jo got a job offer from Volkswagen – they want her to work in the Palo Alto lab on hybrids, fuel cells, biodiesel, and other green stuff – which is pretty much exactly what she was looking to do. I accepted a job offer at [...]
Long exposure of the gang car throwing up sparks
I am all caught up on my blog now (don’t miss the pictures from the bonfire below). I’m heading back to campus tomorrow. My dad and I packed up the trains today. Not much has been happening this past week – it’s been so long since I’ve [...]
Which isn’t exactly an encouraging thought, given the mountain of stuff I need to do between now and then. I started knocking things off today, though. This morning I took the French SOPI, a silly oral proficiency exam given on a computer. I hate computerized tests, give me good old fashion pencil and paper any [...]
AGEIA’s “PhysX” physics chip supposedly provides hardware accelerated physics for computer games (and ostensibly other applications). This is an interesting idea, as interactive physics are important for creating convincing virtual worlds. Even a bare-bones matrix math accelerator chip would be great for speeding up the heavy calculus that a physics engine has to deal with. [...]
Hmm. This blogging thing is the kind of thing that I will be really obsessive about at first, and then completely lose interest in in two weeks. So expect a deluge of posts and then a vast silence.
Erc and I are working on making a 3d computer game with ninjas running around a medieval village [...]
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