July 06, 2012
Well I seem to find myself slipping on posting anything or keeping up with the whole social thing time and time again. Things change, friends come and go, and personal interests seem to wax an wane. Right now I do not know how active I will stay here but I will continue to support the community and…
July 24, 2009
My article submission has been selected for the next Game Programming Gems 8... AGAIN*!
* Yeah, yeah, I know you heard this all before and I bet you find yourself asking "Didn't this happen before? Where is his last announced article for that Game Programming Gems 7?". Well to make a long story shor…
May 08, 2009
What exactly is "red matter" in the Star Trek movie?
I believe this might be some miss guided, artistic license, play on quantum chromodynamics and the strong force. There is what is known as color charge that is formulated to explain quark confinement and the residual of this why protons/neutrons c…
I believe this might be some miss guided, artistic license, play on quantum chromodynamics and the strong force. There is what is known as color charge that is formulated to explain quark confinement and the residual of this why protons/neutrons c…
June 09, 2008
I probably should have posted this some time ago but that whole trying out a second job ended out being a bust. The exact reasons I was given for them letting me go was that they just didn't see it working out and no amount of me questioning would my boss expand on that. It came rather much as a sh…
January 12, 2008
I know it has been some time since my last update but there are some good reasons for this. First on the list is that I did eventually pull my book article so I could hopefully have a more polished and completed one to be published later. But other than that the biggest thing to happen this year is…
June 03, 2007
My article submission has been selected to be included in the upcoming Game Programming Gems 7!
December 25, 2006
Congratulations!
I like to dedicate this journal entry to a very special occasion. Last night on Christmas Eve my younger brother proposed to his wonderful girlfriend. I am usually a person of many words but nothing right now can truely express my over joyous feelings for them. I love both of them v…
November 05, 2006
"Extra ball! Extra ball has been lit." is sadly what popped into my mind right after I wrote that topic for this very journal post. I guess I just played way to much of The Who's Tommy pinball in the past for that tune to still be stuck in my head. But now that I have got myself sidetracked a bit I…
September 09, 2006
Well me and ApochPiQ have been talking back and forth about his homebrew console and it has gotten my juices flowing again. About 4 years ago I was working on my own console as well and I have decided to take all my previous work and research and pick it up again during the spare time I do have. I …
September 06, 2006
Wow, this past holiday weekend was a real hoot! It all started off friday night when I was invited to go out to dinner with my parents along with one of my father's friends from work and his wife. Me being the type of person who would never turn down a chance for a free steak meal I eagerly accepte…
August 10, 2006
It has been quite a while since the last time I made an update so I guess I have some catching up to do. Last I left off I was having back problems and going through physical therapy. Since then I have finished all of my treatments and my back is doing verry well now. I have included a picture belo…
May 06, 2006
Haha, "Back In The Saddle", get it? Ahh, never mind, I was never cut out to be a comedian. Well the good news is that after getting an MRI it shows that I don't have a herniated disk after all. Even then it looks like I may still be at risk for one in the future if I do not watch out. But what I do…
April 13, 2006
I am sorry to let everyone know that I was rushed to the Emergency Room late last Sunday when my back gave out and I fell to the ground with major pain. Between the pain and drugs I am having a hard time understanding what is going on. Because of this I am currently staying with some family as they…
March 27, 2006
Many people have started to contact me with much concern for my health and wellbeing since I have not written in my journal for some time now. I would like to thank these people for carring enough to check in on me and let everyone else know that I am very much alive and doing well. The short expla…
February 12, 2006
Please notice that this journal entry has been edited since its orginal posting.
I have always had the curious scientist like mind from a young age as my parents remind from time to time and I remember it too. I had glorious dreams of becoming a famous inventor or physicists some day. Then came comp…
I have always had the curious scientist like mind from a young age as my parents remind from time to time and I remember it too. I had glorious dreams of becoming a famous inventor or physicists some day. Then came comp…
February 10, 2006
Well I have talked to my one of my clients and I have received clearance and permission to now post screenshots here of their product I am working on for them. I have talked about this contracted project briefly before in a reply to my first journal entry. Besides what I have already mentioned befo…
February 08, 2006
A long time ago I thought I would never need or want to register my birth name as a domain but that thought has slowly changed over the years as I make a name of myself. Even when I ran the idea through my head time to time I always said to myself that I could always register it later. It is my nam…
February 02, 2006
It has been some time now since my last journal post and I really should keep this habit going otherwise it will just get lost in the clutter of my mind like so many other things. Now that you all can see that I am still very much alive I should tell you what I have been up to. For the lack of a be…
January 20, 2006
I am usually not an attention whore but this view count only happens once and I wanted to celebrate with everyone here who made these numbers possible.
January 18, 2006
Most of my programs always start out with a console in one form or another to monitor data and to edit and update variables while the program is running and is usually in some sort of shell window or the program itself. This is all fine and good but I felt that it was very limiting to me. I could o…
January 15, 2006
Well friday the 13th has come and gone and I have survived quite well. This day out of all dates is one I would have not chosen to schedule a demo presentation and investor meeting on but one of my side contractors did just that. I have to admit my personal stress level was a little high then but i…
January 08, 2006
It has always amazed me at how much effort it really takes to get started again at the start of a new year when nothing truely has changed other than the rolling over of the date. So here I am full steam again with my contracted work and all that fun research and development here at Tantrum Games t…
December 31, 2005
Several people have made their interest known that they wanted to know more information on how my planet creator generates its ecological data. The math and equations behind all of this is very indepth and I am unable to share them at this time but I will go over some simplified ideas to help figur…
December 28, 2005
The data I have put up until here has shown that my test planet has been having a good growing season. Because I know people would perfer more images I have included a detailed satellite image of the planet during this nice weather. I am also tired of this planet not having a name other than being …
December 28, 2005
I have been refining the weather systems some more again and below is a current precipitation forecast from one of my planets. It may look simple in some ways but there is a pile of research behind it a mile high. In the future I may give simplified examples of the rules that describe this system.
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December 24, 2005
*This programmer art was inspired by HopeDagger's good idea. Have a great Christmas and may your holidays be festive and safe.
December 23, 2005
I have always been a perfectionist and shy about my work always hording any details about it until I believed it was done or due. Now that I have a journal and an audience I am going to have to work on this quirk as well as a few others. Below is a brief glimpse of one of the things I am working on…
December 22, 2005
With it being almost time for me to break a bit for the holidays I had to put a little extra time in at work. We had a hard milestone to hit to show some demos to our investors which meant some serious crunch time. Below are some aftermath pictures of my office and the company breakroom when everyt…
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