You can be right more often when you learn to admit you are wrong ( Read more... )

"My latest idea that I've been expressing is that there's no real value to humanity in creating technology like computers. What really matters and makes a difference is when you do something nice for someone else, like tying the shoe of a child. Or bringing smiles to any stranger."

Despite conventional wisdom, knowledge is not just a collected body of facts. This is because that's exactly what information is, so knowledge must be something else. In fact, it's so much more ( Read more... )

Both now and in general. 2009 is probably the most notable year I can recall. It must have something to do with how busy I've been. Too busy to write in my LiveJournal, that's for sure. And there's been growth and development on all fronts: intellectual, financial, personal, interpersonal, professional, physical, etc ( Read more... )

At the Dojo, somebody left a note on the fridge:

"Please date food."

Somebody crossed out date and wrote "marry."

Later, somebody crossed out marry and wrote, "cheat on."

Somebody else wrote along the side "+1 for marrying food."

Hacker Dojo == Hacker Heaven


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I'm bringing back the game developer within. I will now develop a series of awesome, simple, but increasingly scoped networked multiplayer games in Flash using Flixel. First on the list is Combat Tanks. Play the alpha preview!

Mostly developed in the 3 days of TIGJam, it's a remake of a favorite Windows 3.1 game. There are still bugs and major ( Read more... )

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Me: LIKE ME
Her: OK
Her: i mean NO

Busy busy busy. I reformatted my laptop, which required a lot of backup work. I also installed Windows and Boot Camp for some game stuff (making more than playing, but whatev). Over the weekend my net was down while I waited for Comcast to come back and reinstall service (Catherine had to cancel it when she left), but that happened today, so I'm ( Read more... )