CeramicPig

I guess I should probably mention this here since it happened months ago.

If you want words from me, you should check out my new site:

<a href="http://www.gearleaf.com/">Gearleaf</a>

I'm still working on Geas there. Weekly updates, in theory.

Oh hey. I'm updating my site, http://speveril.northknight.com/ again.

<i>Regularly.</i>

The explanation for why is in the menu, under "The Challenge".

Yay!

Hey, it looks like I've survived another year. Sweet.

By the way, I have a site again.

http://speveril.northknight.com/

I've been updating there a little bit, if you're looking for words from me.

I actually have gotten some work done over the last two days. Not much, but it's a start, and I'm going to write about it because that was part of the idea. This entry is super nerdy so you can basically skip it if you want.

Most of my work was on a dorky little project that I work on every now and then. I call it 'Panacea'. It's a virtual machine with a very ASM-ish instruction set, encoded as 4x32bit instructions. It's all very preliminary and such but the idea is to make it as speedy as possible and easy to drop into another program. I'd also like to add that it is already endian-neutral; it does byteflipping on load so it can deal with bytecode compiled anywhere.

Why? Well... it's cool. It's fun to manually write bytecode with a hexeditor while I'm testing out instructions. Once I get a decent VM going, I'll write myself an assembler and, eventually, I can write myself some compilers that will compile into Panacea bytecode. Then I can use it for projects that need internal scripting (if I want) and, get this, I can actually write the scripting in any language that I make a compiler for. As long as it compiles to the Panacea bytecode, it can be used by an app that embeds the Panacea VM. So, theoretically it could be useful, some day. Mostly, it's just fun to mess around with at the moment, though.

I have another idea that is still in a sort of infant state so I don't want to talk about it too much. It'd be a website/community thingy that would be pretty cool if it doesn't get botched up in the implementation and early stages of use. I'll think more about it and maybe post more if I decide to go ahead with it (or if I decide not to go ahead with it and figure someone else might have a use for the idea).

erdrick mentioned earlier today that I hadn't posted here in quite a while. I figured I'd use the opportunity to both rectify this and to get some whining off my chest.

I've been having a crappy time recently. I've been tired and lethargic and have been getting nothing done (unless you count progression in Okami, which you really shouldn't.) Whenever I sit down to work on something I invariably end up not working on it. I'm just stuck in a rut and can't seem to shake myself out of it.

So I'm going to, god damn it. First step is to start getting enough sleep. Then I need to get in to work at reasonable hours so I don't have to stay so late, or get up early and work on stuff in the morning. Then I need to get myself a priority stack, as egometry called it, so when I sit down I have a list of things to work on rather than just sort of vaguely thinking I should work on something.

I should also start posting in here regularly with what I've been working on. If I feel obligated to post about what I've been doing then maybe I'll actually do something worth posting about.

Of course, the law of Me On The Internet means that now that I've posted I'll probably disappear for two years. If I've not updated in a few days, someone email me, yeah?

I have, miraculously, been working on Geas again. Thanks to Grue for his urging/shouting.

Here's a picture. I think it's pretty.

And to prove that I can't let a dumb joke die:

( I'm Batman. )

Yes, it was drawn in photoshop. I used a black brush, a white brush, and the smudge tool.

The other day I had a conversation on IRC with someone who had gotten the impression that, basically, I don't think anything is funny. What ensued was a conversation where I explained that my sense of humour was just dry. When he found out I was Canadian, he said that that explained it.

Anyway, I just wanted to prove, once and for all, that I have lots of range of emotion! I'm not just a dried up old man. So I present to you:

( The Many Faces of Me )

I hope that clears things up.

Edit: Just fixed the two spelling errors in the post. They were driving me nuts all day, but I was at work and didn't want to bother going and editing the post there.

Stop sending me spam about "Get a University Diploma now!!1oneoen!eleven". I'm busting my ass/wallet getting a real, worthwhile degree. I don't want your damn Spamiversity Diploma-stink all over my wall.

Deiplzkthxbye.

- <3 CP

I wrote another fiction thingy. It's been a while.

A Friendly Ear

It's unedited and probably stupid, but whatever. I've had the idea (and the desire to explore the character of Alma a little more) for a couple of weeks now, and finally just sat down and started writing it. I wrote pretty much all of it in one sitting.

Good god. Avalon started updating again like, yesterday. I randomly discovered this when I was looking to see what Josh Philips (the creator) had been up to recently after I found an old bookmark about something related to Avalon.

That's kinda weird. Anyway, I know some of the people who might read my journal used to read it. Thought they'd want to know.

Edit: I'm thinking this points to some sort of cosmic realignment of slacker Internet nerds. Maybe I'll even start updating my page.

I forgot to mention this when it happened, and I just thought of it again. This is a story from a few months ago:

I was in the Electronics Boutique over in Dartmouth. I was just sort of browsing, checking around. I hardly ever actually go in there intending to buy games, but I like to take a look around at what's out and what looks interesting and what's cheap. I was checking out the PC section, and up beside me came a woman and her daughter, who looked to be about 8 or 10 years old.

So they were checking out the PC titles as well, and since they were close by I caught the majority of their conversation simply due to proximity. They were looking for a particular game (I missed which game in particular) but couldn't find it.

The mom said, "Unfortunately, it looks like they don't have it here, honey."

The little girl looks unhappy and sort of clenches her little fist and says, "Curse them!"

It was hard not to burst out laughing. This girl was not very much more than waist-height on me, which upped the hilarity and awesome levels substantially. I don't think I've ever seen or heard a cooler fellow shopper in EB.

So, I have no idea who you are or what game you were looking for, little girl, but I want you to know that you're awesome. I hope you found the game eventually.

I'm at work. No one else is around! I think I've seen all of one of my co-workers at all since I got in about an hour and a half ago. (I had classes for three hours prior to that.)

Anyway, I'm not feeling very motivated to work! I have plenty to do, but none of it is looking particularly attractive. I keep thinking about just going home, but I want to get stuff done! I like exclamation points! We are good friends.

Also, just for kicks, I am SSHed into a server at school, and using links to post. I am truly three-leet. Or whatever.

Here's some amusing code that I wrote a month or so ago. It's Perl, printing out HTML:

( Read more... )
I think this post probably assures that no one who reads my journal would ever ever hire me for a programming job.

Here's another moment of awesome:

I was headed out of work, and as I pass the door I see a guy in an EHS (that's Emergency Health Services - he was a paramedic) standing there talking on a cell phone. I think to myself, "Whoa, an ambulance guy, I hope ..."

Then I remember that I work in a hospital.

I just finished with a piece of paper that had something I needed to do written on it. My desk here at work is a disaster zone so, instead of just sticking it on my desk to add to the mess, I decided to stick it on the chair that sits next to my desk (and has a sign on it that says "CHAIR"). I turned to the chair and said, "Here, you can hold this."

Then I realized that I was talking to a chair.

Christmas vacation, you cannot come fast enough.

I've been reading a lot of well-written essays recently about software development and its various satellite disciplines, and also been following the newish blog of fellow Verge-ite and all around cool-guy aen. It has all conspired to want me to start writing something in here, or set up a seperate blog thing (which would really just be an excuse to procrastinate on actually writing in it). Daily, if I could manage it!

Unfortunately, I've been faced with the fact that I don't actually really have all that much interesting to say.

I'm not actually all that knowledgable about things in a "blog-about-it" way; I'm not a leading thinker of new web technologies, nor am I really qualified to preach the goods of MVC programming, or whatever. I work on my little projects, but I don't really get enough done on them on a daily basis to write about it. I also don't want to degenerate to days on end of:

I drew another couple frames for that sprite today. Made a tile or two. See you tomorrow.

I'll keep thinking about it, I guess. I've been trying to figure out what I could write about on an on-going basis for a few days now. Unfortunately the last few days have sucked anyway, so nothing has come of it.

Ah well.

Well now. It seems like Bongobob, the web comic, may be... something that could be happening again.

Check out Episode 3, Part 1

That's right. Like a malevolent fire-turkey rising from the ashes of a year and a half ago, it has come again.