Many of you haven't seen or heard much of me lately. This is because despite still being only semi-employed I've been very busy. Let me tell you what's going on for those of you who are curious ( Read more... )

I've been accepted to Boston University's Masters of Arts in Teaching program, which was one of my top choices. I have interviews scheduled with two of the other programs I applied to ( Read more... )

It's time for more looking back! Despite some rough spots, overall, 2009 was a pretty good year. Here are positive things from 2009.

1. Got into an awesome relationship with happyfunpaul2. Found a new career path as a math teacher ( Read more... )

As you probably already know, I'm applying to education schools to study secondary mathematics education. (Doesn't that sound fancy now?) As such, I have to prepare a statement describing why I want to study this topic, why I want to study at this school, and why I think I'd be a good choice for them to admit to their program. After much struggle, ( Read more... )

I hung out with happyfunpaul in the morning and got some work done: sending email and applying for a job.

My sister and her kids were in town visiting my dad, so we went to see them. My nieces and nephew are cute and high energy. We all went to Drumlin Farm where we got to see lots of farm animals and birds and walk around, and the weather was nice, not too ( Read more... )

I have a large set of numerical data is a comma-separated values text file that I want to a) plot, b) find maxima and minimum of, c) apply functions to every point of. This is the kind of thing that I used to use Matlab for, but I don't have access to Matlab anymore and it isn't cheap. Excel or OpenOffice Calc can do these tasks, but I don't have ( Read more... )

As you probably know, I've been working a casual puzzle game for quite some time now. Today, I released the windows version. So check it out: Puzzle Toy Studio.

Earlier today I was working on getting the game ready for release and decided that I ought to have a windows installer. I'd never made one of these before and was concerned that this would be another learning curve to scramble up.

Enter NSIS, as scripting system and HM NIS Edit, for editing the scripts. I open up the editor, find script wizard, ( Read more... )

Most of you know that I've been working on casual puzzle game. Well, I've got a playable demo, with a bunch of levels that I'm trying to get feedback on. If you're interested in play testing the game, please let me know.

Edit: The current demo only runs under Windows, and may have issues on version other than XP.

So it's been a month since I last posted anything to LJ. It's not that nothing has been happening, but rather that *way too much* has been happening ( Read more... )