Inane Ravings of a Mad Engineer

Here lie the ravings of a madman, written so that all may remember!
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Extrarius
March 17, 2005
Competition!
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Extrarius
March 14, 2005
Breakage!
This week is spring break, which means no school!!
Instead of going to school ~3 hours and working ~3 hours, I got to work 8 hours today! Spring Break is awesome

There is some good though, as I finally ordered GURPS and plan to start a game going once my books get here (at various days this week). Th…
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Extrarius
February 19, 2005
Yet To Begin, It Is Done
Today I finally replaced my 6ft tall x 1 foot wide bookshelf with one 6ft tall and 3 feet wide. My room right now barely has a path from door to PC to bed to closet (I literally have to jump over stuff to get to the closet) and there are still two piles of books sitting outside my room, but now I c…
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Extrarius
February 13, 2005
Auction Action
Yesterday I bid on my first ever ebay auction, and today I won for the low low price of $3.99 (which comes out to about $11 after shipping and insurance and the cost of the cashiers check required to pay for it and postage to send the payment).
I'm now the proud owner (well, technically... I won't h…
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Extrarius
January 26, 2005
So Much Work...
Today, while working on 3 projects (raytraced pacman{with tons of reflection and refraction}, opengl clone of a flash game, and a file hosting script), I was sideswiped by two new projects (a petri net-based esoteric language and a rule bot for subspace).

Now I'll probably never finish any of the pr…
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Extrarius
January 10, 2005
First day of Uni
Back to school I went today. MWF is all the classes I basically know already (Data Structures, Operating Systems, and Uni Physics I), while on Tues and Thurs I get to learn some new stuff (Random Signals, Matrix Method and Applications {not sure what either are really, but the matrix class requires…
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Extrarius
December 25, 2004
A White Christmas
This is going to be an AWESOME Christmas because it's going to be a white one. I saw actual snow for the first time in my life today and it happened to be in my hometown, where I've lived all my life. Pictures might follow depending how they turn out

Just measured it this morning @ 8AM and it was be…
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Extrarius
December 19, 2004
Awesome!
Well, my 'fixed' motherboard finally game in on the 17th. Epox received my mobo with the broken caps on Nov 23, and true to their word the turnaround took 10 working days (presuming they got thurs and friday off for thanksgiving) (plus 5 shipping) to send me a completely new motherboard that isn't …
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Extrarius
December 12, 2004
A Touch of Frost
I have to say WOW.
I just (well, a few hours ago) got back from a concert titled "A Touch of Frost" by the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra and a HUGE choir (over 350 people from something like 6 local choirs combined for this performance) and it was awesome.

You haven't heard christmas songs until …
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Extrarius
November 27, 2004
Sectors and Sages
After too many hours of slaving over x86 assembly without a debugger, I finally finished Boot Sector Tic-Tac-Toe (an aside to the previously announced projects)
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Extrarius
November 12, 2004
Project M has begun
Project E has begun
Well, kinda. 2/3 of the project has been started, and the other 2/6 can't be finished until parts 1/3 and 2/3 are done
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Extrarius
October 28, 2004
Oh, the Computation!
Of course, as I strived to post every Wednesday, the inevitable occured: I forgot.
Since I actually had things to say this time(rantish as they are), I decided posting on Thursday wasn't so bad:

Recently I've been learning VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) for my goal of implementing a game …
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Extrarius
October 20, 2004
Blogging around the GameDev Tree
I want to continue the tradition of me posting every Wednesday, but I don't really have much to say so I decided to do a bloggish thingie:

Meh. I'm in a weird state right now: I notice my behavior is very similar to a time when I was seriously depressed with everything, but I don't feel the same way…
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Extrarius
October 13, 2004
Offline
Today I finally received the RMA number for my motherboard with the nearly-blown capacitors. Epox says the turnaround time might be as long as 2 weeks (not counting shipping), so I'll either be offline for a while or on a crappy machine (be it a spare one around home or one at uni). I'll probably s…
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Extrarius
October 06, 2004
New Domains
In addition to PsychoSanity.com(my first domain and currently my only website) and ?Name(which might host unique forum sometime in the future), I now own two more domains:

Sometime in the potential future, MadEngineer.info and MadMathematician.info might provide a GameDev.net-like website about many…
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Extrarius
September 29, 2004
Stardate Negative Something
I decided I might as well make at least a single post in my Journal since I have it.

Since I don't really have anything to say, I'll just list my current projects (meaning stuff I'm even remotely thinking about working on someday in the potential future) :

o Console Demo (for text mode demo competit…
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