Idle hands
by Chris on Oct.14, 2006, under General Thoughts and Projects
Sitting here, alternating between idle web browsing, reading Amber novels, and dozing on the couch…
My life is pretty easy this weekend, despite the lingering aftereffects of a nasty cold that I’ve had all week that has left me with headaches, poor sleep, and a sense that the world is passing me by in a grey haze. I got some housework done, although not too much. I’m lazy, after all.
In school-related news, I’m working on a Perl CGI app for an assignment. It means that I get to write code in what is effectively a write-only language — Perl is legendarily difficult to read — and generally do a bunch of web-hackery in an old-fashioned sort of tool. I’m more of a Java fan, myself, but this does the trick, I guess.
I didn’t get to go jumping today, because the fog outside combined with a sense that I needed to get some laundry done to keep me home.
I want to build something, damn it — I want to have a project to put together that has a defined scope, a real purpose, and is small enough that I can make a realisitic start to it. I had idle dreams of remaking a game, but I’m not that hardcore, and can’t be arsed to become that hardcore. My other project ran up against limitations in the known information about the iTunes library format. All of which leave me with a periodic need to have an itch to scratch.
Grr.
October 14th, 2006 on 11:19 pm
What about our Thexder thing?
October 15th, 2006 on 12:39 am
You know, I’d completely forgotten about that…
October 15th, 2006 on 7:57 am
Well, I’m not really sure exactly how much time I can put into it, but I’d be willing to give it a go…
October 15th, 2006 on 10:15 am
I know how you feel, with the cold…and with wanting to do a project of some sort. Not so much a computer-program- kind of thing (thats generally my bf’s department) but I’ve been working on t-shirt/stickers/decals/comic books for awhile now, and I always seem to stop halfway, and then pick it up again two months down the road.
Oh, if you really want something to do, there’s a movie festival going on at the Metro today…a movie that my friends and I did a few weeks ago for the 24/one film competition is going to be shown.
Just felt the need to pimp that out.
October 15th, 2006 on 10:27 am
Damn. I’m a bit booked up for the day — too many things to get done before Eric’s chilifest — but that sounds like something I might have enjoyed. I actually know someone else who had an entry, although I gather it didn’t do as well.
The Thexder thing… that sounds like it’d be a good thing to try out; It would be interesting to at least get a level viewer up, and then from there it should go pretty well — the AI was dead-simple, as I recall.
October 15th, 2006 on 5:45 pm
God yeah. There were four or five types of motion enemies had, and most of them consisted of moving straight towards the player, with or without the option of flying. I think I have it all written down, and I should also have written down where in the data files it indicates just what kind of motion it is.