Julius is back in town for two weeks, so we went out yesterday for a wander in the ‘Joseph D Grant County Park’, up near Mount Hamilton. It’s a fairly barren, but it has some nice views of the presently snow-tipped Mount Hamilton and Lick Observatory up the top there. Afterwards we went and saw… Read more
My Canada jaunt went really well, and was great fun, but the day I left I came down with something nasty – probably just the flu, but some kind of Canadian super-flu – which has had me laid out since. I’m getting better, but very slowly.. I haven’t been this sick since glandular fever, from… Read more
Also, I won’t be updating this while I’m away. One of the downsides of being unconventional with my software choice is the lack of a web interface. One of these days I’ll do something about that.
Nearly time to depart. Trying to fit all my junk, including ski boots, into one bag is an interesting exercise. It seems to have found some way to arrange itself, no doubt so perfectly that I will never again be able to replicate it, and shall return with the exact same contents spread across three… Read more
When I got to work yesterday, having dodged a homicidal FedEx van with my name apparently on it – at least I know what my ABS brakes sound like now, which would be like the sound of my wheels falling off – I was greeted by an email from payroll informing me they hadn’t calculated… Read more
On the 30th of September, 2007, I started a silly little test project to play with terrain generation and OpenGL. In typical fashion I got bored after a few days and let it slide, but I came back today and kept fiddling. When I’d left it I’d just enabled lighting, but hadn’t provided any normals… Read more
I took the Nac Ski bus up to Kirkwood today. I committed myself to it last Monday so as to prevent myself procrastinating it out of the whole season. It turned out really good, despite my best efforts to injure myself. :) My boots were actually really comfortable by the end of the day, despite… Read more