It’s good to be home, thought I had a terrible time getting here. I left my house at 3:30am (after playing Warcraft all night with Jo, Erc, and Kejia) to get the airport for a 6:00 flight to Chicago so …More
Tag: Gui
Not Quite Gods
July 13, 2006
Where else but Stanford can one amble out at twilight for a walk and come across a two-time Pulitzer prize winner giving a talk on the importance of History? Joanna and I were taking a stroll last night and we …More
private Item[] equipped = new Item[(int)Slot.NUM_SLOTS];
March 26, 2006
Spent some time this weekend working on Witherwyn’s inventory code and GUI. However, as soon as I started adding a lot of items to the game I decided that instead of hardcoding everything, I needed to load entity data in …More
The CS247 Experience
February 16, 2006
My upcoming book will teach you: The 7 principles for success in designThe 5 guiding forces of human computer interactionThe 10 evaluation heuristics relevant in HCIThe 3 things you need to know about interfacesThe 2 informance mechanisms of dynamic prototypingThe …More
Finals week
December 7, 2005
The Strike at Shayol Ghul (A Preliminary Introduction) by Jorille Mondevin, Royal Historian to the Court of Her Most Illuminated Majesty, Ethenielle Kirukon Materasu, By the Blessing of the Light, Queen of Kandor, Protector of the Land, Shield of the …More
I'm afraid of ontological commitment
October 21, 2005
CS270. It goes on like this: … If, as we have argued, all representations are imperfect approximations to reality, each approximation attending to some things and ignoring others, then in selecting any representation we are in the very same act …More
All the doors I closed one time will open up again
September 9, 2005
Doors! Over the past couple of days I have added doors to Witherwyn. They can be opened, closed, and smashed in by right-clicking on them and using the handy context menu that pops up. Getting the bitmaps on the context …More
Encounters with the Infinite
September 2, 2005
Yesterday I posted Jorge Luis Borges’ little known masterpiece, The Book of Sand. This story was originally published in 1975, in Spanish (Borges is Argentinian), as part of a collection of short stories which is now out of print. [This …More
"Boston Business Trip" or "Your Tax Dollars at Work"
July 30, 2005
First off, I would like to thank all of tax-paying America (those of you who don’t pay their taxes suck and get no thanks). Because the US government is so flush with your cash, they saw fit to give JPL …More
