The New Year's Nerd

Well, I finally did it.....Sort of.

I've partially purged myself of Microsoft's sin. I've dual booted Ubuntu 8.10 on my computer. I still have XP (since most of the things I use are on Windows), but I have Linux. Gotta keep my options open, y'know?

Ubuntu is damn pretty. It proves that you don't need fancy hardware acceleration and transparent menu bars to have a good looking GUI. I love how Python is so tightly integrated with the Ubuntu shell. In fact, if it weren't for the games I have on Windows, I'd gladly switch to Ubuntu at any time. Now if only I had a credit card so I could donate.

I've grabbed most of the apps I think I'll need(namely Blender, The Ur Quan Masters, Anjuta IDE, plus some plugins). The only problem I've had so far is with the sound and getting a recent version of Flash Player, but its cool, I'll have them fixed WAAAY before the New Year.

Well, I most likely won't be updating tomorrow...so Happy New Year when it comes!!

Later,
Gavin

Merry Christmas: The Official Post Mortem of Ebenezer Scrooge

Well, this was a pretty good Christmas in terms of loot. I got a stack of 25 blank DVDs, a can of axe, and most importantly a new cell phone. Its a Samsung...something...blah, can't bother to go look at the box now. lol.

As it pertains to my Communication studies IA, which I may or may not have mentioned in a previous post, I'm making pretty good progress.If I were a studious person, I could be finished by the day after tomorrow.

But alas, I regret to inform you that I am not a studious person. I'll be finished by like next week Monday, I guess.

If you're lazy(like me) and can't bother to read everything up top, but you had to read this text due to its coloration, just watch the video below to summarize how my day was.



This song is called "Today Was a Good Day" and its by Ice Cube. Its one of the songs in the soundtrack for GTA: San Andreas, which I have been playing a lot of lately.

I've also been playing Red Alert 3. That game is so much DAMN FUN!! I mean, its a ridiculous excuse to revitalize the careers of some porn stars and B-movie actors, but damn, it is FUN!!

Oh, and I think my balls are getting bigger. I'm also learning how to grunt. The reason? Gears of War. There is so much testosterone in that darn thing, I'm jealous. I think that game may be applying peer pressure(Is that even possible?). I tried it on the recommendation of a friend, and despite getting killed every second wave, I love it. The Lancer, with the chainsaw bayonet is so cool. Its officially cooler than the plasma sword in Halo(although that can't compare to the Sword of Mana).

Before I'd go, I'd just like to address the fact as to why this sounds different from my other posts. The reason is because in this post, I actually have SOMETHING to talk about, as opposed to many others, where I'm just giving you, my dear reader, reassurance that I'm still alive.

MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone, including those who live in timezones where its still Christmas Eve and those who live in parallel universes that don't celebrate Christmas, and all the Ebenezer Scrooges who wish it weren't Christmas.

Christmas Around The Corner

Well, its a year and 11 days since I started Happy Desolation. I've posted a lot of good thing, and I've posted a lot of bad things. Nonetheless, I think its been of good quality overall.

There are a few things I need to do though,so think of the following as early New Year resolutions:

1)I need to rewrite LunaMath (then LunaGraphics and LunaScene and Luna......)
2)I need to do my skeletal animation tutorial
3)I need to bump up my artistic skill level
4)I need to work out a lot more

That's really all there is. 1,2 and 3 are the relatively easy ones. I'll probably have problems exercising regularly, but then, not everybody manages to keep their New Years resolutions.

Oh well.

Merry Christmas Everyone,
Gavin.

OMG!!! Really?

I don't believe it.

It turns out people actually DO read Happy Desolation. Wow. I feel umm, accomplished.

Anyway, I passed all my unit tests, but didn't really excel(except for Maths and Comm Studies). Oh well.

My exams started this week. So far, they have been GREAT!!! I feel great after leaving them because I know I've done well. I have Chemistry, Physics and Math next week. Guess which one I'm worrying about? Thats right, Chemistry.

I haven't sat down to program anything for a while. I'm going to do some stuff over Christmas so I don't get rusty. But, thats after I finish my Communication Studies Internal Assessment, Biology Meiosis models and some other thing I can't remember at the moment.

I'm just taking the night off since I'll have the weekend to study.

Thank you all my loyal readers. I love you all....sort of...not in a sick way..I think.

Later..
Gavin

The Nerd Report

I just could NOT less this pass me. I mean, how awesome is this??!!

Click meeee!!!

Cognitive computing huh? Well then, I guess I'd better reread my old,worn copies of Neuromancer and rewatch my rotting Johnny Mnemonic DVDs, because as soon as self-aware, thinking computers take over, I'm screwed. lol.

I have worked on a neural network simulation in C++, but its pretty useless as far as actual function is concerned. Just a bit of number crunching(but then, in the end, everything is).

Still, this is pretty interesting. Thank God my original ambition was to become a neurosurgeon. Chances are by the time I get out of medical school they're still going to be messing around with it. Maybe if I get lucky I can work with them. Who knows?

Lets hope this thing pans out.

Oh yeah, I have 5 unit tests next week. Luck, you say?

Ha, I don't need luck.

I need a miracle.

Peace,
Gavin

The Past 2 Months In Less Than 500 Words

Wow, perfect. Another "sorry I haven't updated in so long" post. Its sorta becoming a habit, don't you think?

Well, without further ado, here's the rundown of the past two months.

1)School started. Its a bitch.

2)I learned a lesson the hard way about the importance of backing up stuff. My old computer's motherboard,hard drive,graphics card and memory stick went bad all at the same time. Lost over 200 GB of stuff.

3)I finally realized that I was really good at Mathematics and probably should consider taking over Stephen Hawking's job at CERN.

4)I underwent a period of psychological trauma after starting college Chemistry and realizing that electrons don't actually orbit in shells, their positions are random, that is, they have a 95% chance of being found in a regions of space known as orbitals. I wept.

5)I had an epiphany, and realized that its pretty simple to build a nuclear bomb.

6)All hail President Obama!!! Finally, a balla president. Lots of people died that night, since after seeing that, they probably had nothing left to live for.

7)At some point, I realized that I more or less forgot about Happy Desolation. Some good Samaritan reminded me about it(Thanks Robyn!!).

That's about it. Lets hope from now on, I can be more regular with the updates. For your sake,since I know you all live for this. lol.

Google Chrome is Awesome

Hmm, it seems like I'm betraying Firefox, and Google is too. Google Chrome, their new browser, is AWESOME. In fact, I used Chrome to update this blog posting. Its really ergonomic. No annoying title bar or anything else to clutter the screen, just a clean, streamlined interface.



Get it here and give it a shot.

In other news, school has started for me. Time to prepare for a year of work.

My exam results were great. Eight distinctions for the following subjects: Bio,Mathematics,Chemistry,Physics,English Language,English Literature,Infotech and Spanish. I got a B for GCE Add Maths. Thanks to all my well wishers.

Thats about all I have to say for this update.

See ya people,
Gavin.

Georgia, Russia, Jamaica, l337ness, Isaac and Much Much More.....

As Russia pushes deeper into Georgian territory, I can't help but wonder if the world is going crazy.

Then, I realize it has. Isaac Hayes has died. A stroke was the cause of death.



If you have no idea who he is, yet he looks familiar, you've probably seen him if you watch Fresh Prince. He was in the episode where Will and Lisa ran away to get married in Las Vegas. He was the ermm..pasto....marriage official.

Anyway back to international news. Russia has sent 20000 soldiers and 500 armoured personnel carriers into Gori, a key Georgian town. Since Monday, they've hacked the Georgian government's website. They want the Georgian President gone.



Yup, they hacked the government website. Now we see where l337ness comes in. That is uber-l337.

Georgian civilians claim that Russian soldiers are torching homes and taking their property. They've ransacked a few military bases too. Foreign journalists have been warned to hurry up and get out of Georgia. Rather interesting. Georgia sits on top of a strategic oil pipeline, which supplies western markets and the oil comes from the Caspian Sea. I'm sure you see where this is going.

There was a fire at Apple Computer Corporation Headquarters. No one was harmed, and I haven't found any information about the extent of the damage.

Anyway, what does the Georgian thing have to do with Jamaica? Well, lets start with the EU. If the EU sends a peacekeeping force into Georgia(remember now, peacekeeping forces are expensive), there will be less money for member states to do other things. Especially buy sugar from Jamaica, since the climate isn't really favourable for sugarcane in Europe, and sugarcane sugar is preferred to beet sugar.

Sugar and tourism are more or less Jamaica's major income earners. Under an agreement, Jamaica can sell up to 126000 tonnes of sugar a year to the EU market. If the average price per tonne of sugar is US$ 330, 126000 * 330 = US$41580000. With the current recession, lets say that they can only buy half of that(and we can barely produce that). Couple this with the fact that oil prices are sky-high right now, and the country is already buried in debt due to loans from the World Bank and such, you know we're screwed.

Also, Iran claims to have built a smart unmanned sub. They've also purchased some submarines from Russia. Nice twist huh? How cool is that.

This Year's Darwin Award Goes To....The Khronos Group

Yann L Moderator Member since: 2/6/2002 From: Breizh
Quote:
Original post by speciesUnknown
Its nice to know why, but what concerns me is what do we do next? The only alternatives to windows PC's for gaming, without a more up to date OpenGL, is Cider on apple machines, or consoles. For indie game developers, this means XNA, therefore the Xbox. Either way, MS now get a further increased share of the video game market, to the point where the effect of free market competition is non existent.


But what can you do if the only real competitor kills itself with a stunt that would be the digital equivalent of a Darwin Award ?


I'll make the explanation of problem at hand short. OpenGL 3 has come out. Nobody likes it.

I guess that April Fools joke of mine now is an April Fools reality of mine. FUCK!!! This means I probably should have listened to Marc. In his mortal words, "Forget cross-platform, DirectX rocks." He was right I guess. Famous last words? If I get my way, yes.

First Bernie, then OpenGL. What will die next? Will Smith?

Well, I guess that DirectX reading up I was doing came in handy anyway. Now if only I could find a working .X file format exporter for Blender, I'd be a happy boy.

I really can't believe this. I was looking forward to objects.

Later,
Gavin.

Farewell Bernie!

Bernie Mac is dead. If this post seems less funny than normal, its because of two things. The death of a comedian always sorta puts my sense of humour off track, and as much as he's a comedian, I don't think it would be appropriate to crack jokes in this post.



I'd do a eulogy, but Wikipedia has everything you need to know about this great black man. I mean, he just died, damn. Obama probably isn't feeling too good right now for reprimanding him for his joke the other day at a fundraiser of his.

Oh yeah, big apology to Shanice G. Sorry I couldn't make it to your Sweet 16. I'll make it up to you, sometime, hold me to it huh?

Interesting huh? A birthday, and a death.

I really don't have anything else to talk about, I'm brainblocked.

Thats It For Now,
Gavin.

My Internet Connection Isn't Working, Do I Need More Memory?

Really, if you read the topic of this post and thought that needing more memory was seriously the answer to that problem you need to turn off the computer now and go back to playing with stones in the mud.

My internet connection, despite recently being upgraded to 5 MBPS is so damn slow. My computer is also on its way out. I'm getting bashed in OGame. I had no fun last night. BBSpot took 10 tries to load. Deus Ex : Invisible War is annoying with all the running up and down.

I think I'm finished complaining.

I don't really have much else to say, apart from the fact that I have a MD5 loader which analyzes the content of MD5 mesh files. No rendering is done yet though. That's about it.

Bye,
Gavin.

Certificate Problems with Firefox 3 and Google

This morning, I tried to access my Blogger account using Firefox. I got a message about invalid certificate. As you might know, Blogger is owned by Google. I went to Google and typed in the error.

I got a LOT of results. One said that I should download some tool(avoid these sorts of advice at all costs, many of them are spyware). Another pointed out the problem didn't only exist with Google's sub sites, but other sub sites, like some belonging to Microsoft. It was a security certificate problem.

None of the suggestions really helped, so I decided to forget about it and go back to sleep. I checked the time. May 13,2003, 8:00 AM according to my computer clock. That was wrong, so I decided to fix the time. On a hunch, I decided to try my luck at accessing Blogger again. Viola!! It worked.

Well, if anyone is having that problem, and you reached here by googling for it, welcome to Happy Desolation!!

Anyway, I don't really have anything special to say apart from that. I was just planning to update my blog posting, to show my latest attempt at art. Yup, that's right. More Questionable Content characters. I love the art style. Its not as good as last time though. Amir is barely recognizable, and Tai doesn't look right. Only Winslow came out properly. Oh well, practice makes perfect.



Speaking of webcomics, I can't believe I forgot to mention Applegeeks and Dr.McNinja in my last blog post. While I'm a big fan of Jeph Jacques art style, those 2 are the best drawn webcomics I've seen so far.

Going to get a haircut today. Going to the movies next week Tuesday. Going to have a poem for you guys by tomorrow. I think that's about all there is. Its going to be a pretty uneventful life for a while.

Oh yeah, CXC results come out on the 18th of August. Wish me luck.

Later,
Gavin

P.S. Yeah, I haven't made a programming post for a while. I'm just not in the mood. I think I'll be back on my feet soon though. Sorry.

Half Assed or Medium Rare

Well, as you know, in addition to being a hobbyist progammer, I am also a purveyor of half-assed ideas(POHAI). Here are some of my more recent ones:

1)Become a kickass PUA
2)Start my own webcomic(I can't even DRAW >_<)
3)Learn how to draw(Maybe this is in the wrong order)
4)Write poems

Well, okay, the first and the last ones are pretty reasonable. For longtime readers of Happy Desolation however, you all probably know that my art skills are well, the stuff of nighttime talk shows. So, lets keep it realistic.

Number 1 is going pretty well, trust me. I'll stay tight lipped about it here though.

Number 4 is easy. My father is a pretty good writer. He's won a few competitions, but has never been lucky enough to get a book published or a movie script sold. Its not a matter of the quality of his work, as much as its a matter of our geography, if you know what I mean. I guess writing skill is genetic, because I sure as hell have it.

I was always writing MASSIVE stories in high school. I was always at the top of my English class. If Clive reads this, he can probably vouch for me about that story I wrote in Grade 8. 15 pages in one night. Most of the class did 4 pages. Clive's story about a dying dog warmed our hearts. Mine about a boy who made a deal with a demon froze their blood. Hehehehe.

So, by special request, by a special girl, I post the first poem in my series of poems here.

Haze
Dedicated to Bliss

I don't know where to start this poem,
And thinking would take too much time.
When I try to talk from my heart,
I suppose I could compare you to a fine piece of art,
But really, I'm not a nice person, why should I start?

Your personality is amazing,
And from what I remember, your ass is blazing,
Knowing you makes me lucky, so I'm praising,
Don't let your brother see this, please, no hell raising.

You seem really outstanding,
As bright as a day,
I swear to God, although I'm writing this poem, I'm not gay.

Your eyes seemed as cold as ice,
But at the same time as clear as a bell.
I wonder, if I hadn't met you, would I be in existential hell?
At the time, you seemed as silent as the grave,
But now that I almost know you, its like you're naughty, you can't behave.

Silent yet as pretty as a picture,
After reading this I'm expecting you to give me a stricture.
I'm running out of Blogger space,
But keep this poem in your heart, your special place.

Thats all I can write about you for now, Bliss,
If you really like it you can repay me with a kiss



Oh lol.

Did I really write that? Sounds a bit too mushy. Hmmm...needs a few more heavy metal guitars and rockstars bleeding out of their eyes. Oh well.

You guys should definitely check out Questionable Content. It is one of the funniest and best webcomics I've read, alongside Striptease and Animals Have Problems Too.

As I mentioned earlier, I'm not much of an artist, but that's about to change. I've decided to practice the HELL out of myself lol. I started at like 2 in the morning. I've been drawing logos, then decided to move on to more advanced stuff. I drew the QC characters. I think they came out pretty well, for a terrible artist like me. They look a bit smudged, sorry. They weren't really that smudged, but my scanner is like almost half my age, so its a bit outdated(a bit huh?).

Here it is for your viewing pleasure or displeasure, if you get off on that sort of crap:



Whew, that was a MASSIVE post. I haven't written this much for a while. I think that's about if for now. Hope it was to your liking, my dear readers.

All Your Base Are Belong To Us,
Signed : Gavin

P.S. stricture(noun) - 1)Abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway
2)Severe criticsm

Learning is fun KIDS!! lol.

P.P.S. If by the odd chance that you're reading this Mr.Jacques, I'm sorry for butchering Marteen and Hanners. I think Pintsize came out quite well though. lol.

The End of Avatar

Damn right. It came, it went, and it was amazing.

2 years ago when I saw the first Avatar episode, I was impressed. It was one of the few times that an American cartoon(with the exception of the Batman cartoons), had made amazed me like that. I knew it was going to be good from the beginning.

Well, here in the present, thats it. Avatar is done. The ending was really satisfying in my opinion. I've also started liking Zuko. I'm not going to reveal much, but here's ONE spoiler for you unlucky bastards : Most of the relationships turn out as you expect. And Azula also got SCREWED(not in the way you perverts are thinking lol).

I'd actually wanted to be one of the first persons to blog about the end of Avatar, so I'm pretty happy since Google searches haven't turned up much.

Woot!! First dibs on fresh meat.

The OpenGL sample is coming fine.

Oh yeah, my birthday was actually 3 days ago. :P

Peace and Love,
An Avatar Fan.

Still Here, Sorry To Disappoint You

Yeah, its been three weeks since I've updated. Sorry about that. I've been sorta busy. I'm still here though. I was working on a little OpenGL sample device, to encapsulate shaders, sorta like a template for X-LAX. I've also been brushing up on my shader programming.

My birthday is on the 16th of July. Hip-Hip Hooray.

Thats it. I'm sort of brain-blocked now, so some other time. Oh, and about the evangelion episodes, just go to megavideo and watch them. I don't want to get in any legal trouble for it.

Sorry for the cheerful mood, I'm just brain-blocked as I said earlier.

Peace,
Gavin.

Car Sickness

Well, I've just made my way across the island and back. Believe it or not. Ugh. I slept in the back of the car for the whole journey.It is 3:32 pm as I write this. I left home at 5:30 AM and returned by like 2:30. For the non-mathematically inclined, thats 9 hours exactly.

Thank God I took a quick snooze on the return journey.

Here's your promised Evangelion Episode. This is Episode 2:

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Two posts in one day. WOOT!

I was wondering,since on Megavideo, they have whole episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion... what would it be like if for every post, I embedded an episode?

The answer is, it would be KICKASS!!!

Seriously though. Its a cool idea. Here's the first one, for the benefit of all those who don't know what it is. It came highly recommended from Todd and Marc. Thanks guys. I owe ya one(or is it two? Whatever >_>).



Hope you enjoyed.

I Think I Just Pissed Myself

That is scary. What a way to start the morning. Its 8:30 now as I write this. Oh well, I'm in for a wonderful day *grin*. Of course, being the curious individual I am, I had to look up back writing on wikipedia. As a wannabe NLP user, things like this are very interesting to me. Really though, I wonder if those things are real. Imagine, if so, Disney might find themselves in the same position that black metal bands have for years. lol.

Pretty fucking amusing eh?

Still, on a lighter note, here's another video. This video is really funny. You get the WIERDEST ads from youtube. Ugh.



And this kids, is why you shouldn't drink...much:



Ricardo is supposed to get his CD and get fragged today, just wait for it....

And I fixed the problem where SHOGO only ran in 1/4 screen. I had to turn off some of the advanced options. Didn't really affect the graphics that much, although to be honest, it was never really that pretty.

No nightmares now kids!!

SHOGO!!!

I finally managed to track down SHOGO, and I've burnt through the game in like 5 hours on normal difficulty. (Still too wussy to try MADNESS.) It feels good, I finally managed to track it down after so much time.

As you can see, I've added my own little Blogs of Note feature...only its not called that. I've also added one blog. It belongs to a friend of mine called Ricardo. Don't ask about the name. He thinks he is special. I think he is "special"...get the picture? Like this woman.


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Still, just kidding. Thats my friend man. lol. And I'm going to frag him in Shogo as soon as he gets the CD I burnt with a copy of it. Screw you copy protection!!! You're what spoiled games. lol.

Since I'm an ass, I decided to gizoogle Ricardo's first blog post...(thats mean lol.)Its almost more intelligent than before lol. Here is it, all pimped out like a crack ho(Oops):


yeah hi. This is mah fizzirst tizzle mak'n ma own blizzay n it thiznink i'm going ta have a bootylicious time hav'n it gangsta style. Ma name is Ricardo , but most of ma niggaz cizzay me ricky. Soo i guess you also can ciznall me ricky.
Any wizzay tha name of mah bliznogg is actually weird , "The rejects". lol . I kizzy yeah funny.
Any waaz i wanted ta be genuine in mah bliznogg. So i chose this title. Now what is a reject.
Accord'n ta tha oxford dictionary , n i quote " someone thizzay is not accepted by persons around him or her, who is usually treated differently from gangsta.
Yeah i guess you mizzle be wonder'n y chose such a name fo` mah blizzay. Well i guess it's coz at one tizzy in mah life i was a "reject", but now thats totally over n i am like tha hypest person at mah schoo` . You gotta check dis shit out yo. Soo even though yo a reject you can break out of that n be someone else . Im a bad boy wit a lotta hos.

keep cool, n i'll pizzay ma nizzext blizzay soon soo makes sure you pizzay yo views n comments pleaze.

OGame and Stuff...Right?

Lately, I've been umm..wait, let me think.

Oh yeah, I've been playing OGame(www.ogame.us), and watching funny youtube videos:



and working on Mons Blanc. No you can't see the latest design document. Why? Because I said so, mwhahahaha!!!

I like Flippy. He makes me seem umm, mentally well grounded.

Still, I'm only posting this to let you guys know that I'm still alive.

Free...

The title of this post probably says it all. Thats right. I'm free. No more exams. I was free from yesterday, but i was too lazy to post on my blog.

Now you have officially been informed. My first order of business is to download Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2008 and the Windows 32 SDK, because lately DevC++ has been pissing me off, crashing every minute.

You'll probably get the skeletal animation tutorial a month or so from now, because I'm still a little brainblocked. Sorry.

I've been practicing a bit of SS as I told you, this is the summer of pimp.

Remember how a few months back, I did an April Fools joke about switching to DirectX?

Well I'm still joking. I'm actually going to keep on using openGL, but since I'm going to have to switch to Vista sooner or later, I'm going to start learning up on how to use DirectX 10.

Maybe if Mac had decent graphics libraries, I would be programming games for it. lol.

As for Irrlicht, I really don't know. I sorta developed this preference towards doing things myself lately. I'll probably stop using it. I'll leave the tutorials up though.

I'm also trying to track down Shogo. (You know, the game, very old, anime style, done by Monolith?) If you're still clueless:



Tata!

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Hehehehe.

That aside, by next week this time, I'll only have one more exam to worry about. Yup, thats right, the Add Maths Paper 2. I feel really good about the CXC. I mean, Physics and Chemistry were just amazing.I THINK Bio was good too, but I might have mentioned my track record with Bio earlier...

Oh well, I did a little bit of work on LunaGFX, only now, I've changed the name.

That's right kids, LunaGFX is now known as the X-LAX Graphics Library, the crappiest graphics library known to man or monkey.

I'm serious.

About the name change that is, not about the crappy part.

In a week kids!!


P.S. I might be getting a summer job. More about that some other time.

Do You Think About Me Now and Then?

Imagine, CXCs start next week. I know I haven't updated for a while, but I've really been studying*coff*coff*. Now my faithful readership,I know how you all miss me, so here's an appropriate song to help you feel better.



I won't be gone that long people, I promise. After exams, its blogging as usual. Just relax and wait.

In the lack of my wonderful presence, amuse yourself with www.gizoogle.com.

Enjoy. Here's some love:





Yes, my school uniform is that shitty and yes, I was evolutionarily annihilated by the ugly forest and yes, I was tired when I took that picture.

Peace and Something!

P.S. Been studying up on Ross Jeffries and NLP in general, I don't know if I told you guys, so by halfway through this summer, I'll have scored 5. Just watch.

Oh, and just so you know.

Heavyset black guy : Common
"I met this girl when I was 3 years old, and what I loved most was that she had so much soul" - From I Used To Love Her By Common

Hmmm....Racism

This is one of my few posts that have nothing to do with programming, games, sex or what I did today.I know its been a little while since I updated, but now I'm updating, so stop griping and read or watch I should say.



Pretty cool song with a great message. Now, you know how they say anybody can post crap on the internet. Here is perfect proof(no, not Happy Desolation, idiot >_<, this is the finest literature you'll ever read in your life. I'm going to show the comments).



groundz3ro4
Apartheid built the strongest country in africa, along with rodesia. blacks came to power promising a rainbow nation, and gave now they do anything and everything to remove white people. look at Zimbabwe now and how it has been destroyed, and South Africa is on the same path. Their was a reason for Aparthied blacks destroy everything. Even when its handed to them. Thus what will happen if Obama comes to power.



nhrafan
MLK was one of the worst men in history. Where did his views get him? 6ft under from a 38 caliber shot to the jaw which also hit him in the spine. If he was such a great man why did he like white prostitues so much? Theres no reason to honor him. Negros have so many outlets to make their lives better but they dont. They always play the race card. Look at the stats 77% of negro men go to prison sometime in their lives. Get over what happened to you over 200 yrs ago. We dont owe you nothing


Thats just a small sample.

Before I start swearing, cursing, drinking and preaching I would like to say two things.

Yeah, this post is probably two months late, but at least its getting done.

AND

Yeah, slavery was in the past. Most of the times when people talk about how "Us black people are still being oppressed", they're just looking for attention. Note that I'm not saying that racism doesn't still exist, but what I mean is that generally, when poeple pull out the slavery card, they just want attention.

Now my beef is that those guys disrespect MLK, one of the greatest Negroes alive as well as encourage a system as racist and biased as apartheid. I mean, where the HELL is it documented that he slept with a white whore? Apartheid ended in 1994, after 50 years in use. Granted, in my opinion, most African countries aren't being run right, but apartheid was responsible for at least 50% of the problems that African countries experience today. Its going to be a long road to recovery for them.

As for Obama being racist and evil, I don't know. If anything, he can always be impeached, can't he? Give the man a chance, people.

Murder my comment box, dudes.

Rant with ya later!!

APRIL FOOLS!!!

I don't know if I scared anybody by saying that I was switching to directX, but I was just kidding. I however am technically working with directX, as I want to take a peek around in the D3DX library to get a better idea of what I need to support. LunaLib is on hold though. I just finished 8 sample DirectX applications, from creating a simple window to picking. Those were for my personal practice though.

The whole DirectX thing was an early April Fool's joke, because I probably wouldn't be able to update tomorrow.

OPENGL FOREVER BABY!!!!

That will be all humans.

Oh, and before I forget, you should all watch Battlestar Galactica. I was reluctant at first, thinking it was a Star Trek ripoff, but I ate my words after watching one episode. That show is AMAZING!!!

Thats all I can say now, BYE!!!

TTYL,

The Latest From The I

I just decided to update the Source of War design document and show it to you guys...so, knock yourselves out. Remember, its MINE...and I will sue, it saves me the work of actually making the game.

Read this doc on Scribd: Source of War Design Document Version 1.1

I also decided to give up on OpenGL...or at least I'm having an existential crisis. I'm still going to do the Skeletal Animation Tutorial though, so don't worry, my fellow brethren who I betrayed.

Just because I'm giving up OpenGL doesn't quite mean that LunaLib is out of the picture. I'm still going to work on it. Its just that from now on, I'll make directX my favourite development platform.

As I said, existential crisis.

Too bad I don't really have much more to talk about, so...here's a Smash video:



and:

Later!!

Holidays!

Well, finally mock exams are over. I'm actually on my easter holiday break. Nothing to do now apart from cheap sex and Red Alert 2 lol. A lot of crap happened during the exam period, but the exams themselves were pretty easy.

I suppose that last blog post wasn't all that short after all. Since I have 11 days free, I'm gonna probably write a "LITTLE" tutorial on Skeletal Animation. This will be different from the rest so far as:

IT WILL USE openGL alone!!

Thats right, no Irrlicht, no Newton. I've gotta admit, its going to be a lot of work, especially since no 3d model file format supports everything I need. Some of you might be thinking about X and COLLADA files, but X files are hell to read and COLLADA is more of an interchange format. I've decided to write my own file format.

Then I realized that was a practical idea, especially for LunaLib. Instead of having to write small loaders for about 5 different model file formats, I write one large loader for a file format containing everything I need, like tangents and bones. The best part is, since I made it, I know everything I need to know about it.

Two other things before I go.

I have created a Devblog for Lunatek at http://lunatekdevblog.blogspot.com . It should keep you informed about things performing to LunaLib and our games. I won't be the only one posting. Sometimes Marc, Stephen and other staff members will post.

Next, take a peek at this image. It caught my eye on wikipedia so I just decided to show it here.




That image compares the styles in which characters were drawn in older animes to how they were drawn in newer animes. Interesting.

Now, this next image is a challenge that I'm going to give Stephen. Stephen's a good artist, but he's lazy, so I don't know the FULL extent of his abilities. I'm going to see if he can draw the picture below, but in different clothes and a different pose. If he does, I'll be REALLY impressed.



And to be honest, I don't know who the person in the image is.
*Grabs helmet and runs to bunker...*

Oh well.

See ya!

Danger...

Well, tomorrow I have my physics exam and my IT practical. Yawn.

This is almost laughable. I wanna write the shortest blog post ever in the history of this blog.

This should go down in history as the shortest blog post ever. I hope.

Laterz,
Gavin

Halfway Through Hell

Well, that was pretty much it for my first week of mock exams. I had no exams for like 3 days out of the whole week so I spent the time at home.

In an unexpected plot twist, our protagonist, Gavin found the Biology mock exams unusually easy, but the Chemistry very difficult. He hoped that the Chemistry was marked relatively, so he would have excelled(relatively), coming second only to Clive, who he believed had psionic powers, which enabled him to create a mental feedback loop with his Chemistry textbook(known to normal humans as studying).

As for English, it was a breeze....simple, easy English. I R DA SEX!!!!

Well, mock exams end week after next, screw it, I have a few more free days.

As you might see, I made a few updates to the blog. I changed the layout and replaced the donate button with something less antisocial, thats right, a COMMENTS box !!!! DUM-DUM-DA!!!

No videos this time...maybe when you grow up. No pictures of little girls either Javon ( A.K.A "Sparky).

WARNING: Old Hip-Hop

That song was Chanel Live's Sex For the Sport. If you liked that let me tell you, there are a LOT of old great hip-hop songs. Today, I typed up a design document for my game...you know the one the Lunatek Engine is supposed to be used in. Its nowhere near complete, but I decided to give all you wonderful people a look. Normally, I'd force you to download it, but I found this wicked thing called ScribD, which is like Youtube for businessmen lol.

Read this doc on Scribd: AOWDD1

Yeah, its a mouthful and I do apologize for the googled graphics.

Tata!

Lilly Allen?!!

Technically, there's nothing wrong with her name upon close inspection, but still, it just sounds wierd. She's not exactly beautiful either, but her songs aren't actually half bad...if you like British accents. Still, the main reason I picked her as the topic of this blog posting is because I saw the video for the song Driving Me Wild with Common, and was immediately impressed. I also listened to Smile. Great. LDN, not all that, but still ain't bad.



Anyway, I studied a little bit more since I have mock exams on Monday. I think I'm pretty well prepared since I've probably been harping on it for the past month.

I've decided to spend half my summer holidays working on the LunaLibs as well as the Lunatek website. The other half should be dedicated to working out, meeting people, screwing around and putting NLP tricks to good use.

TTFN,

Alive and Kicking

Well, I decided to post this just to remind Planet Earth that I'm still alive. I just handed in my IT SBA today, and I have some more lab reports due on Monday.

Still, I feel pretty prepared for the exams. I have English first on Monday(piece of cake), then on Thursday, I have the long papers for Chemistry and Biology. In between I have a lot of free time to swat :).

Anyway yeah, thats about it, nothing particularly new or interesting.

The Last Leg

Its so close. I can taste it. The tension is killing me. I'm on the home stretch. The exams are about to start. I feel really ready for them, I just need to brush up on some MORE Biology and Literature. I feel so good right now, thinking about myself makes me feel...special lol.

I really am prepared. This is the taste of victory. Victory is like sex, only that you don't need protection lol.

Oh well, enough creepy talk. I decided to show some game related stuff. If anyone who reads this has ever played Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, you know its one of best FPS out now. (Apart from Crysis and Halo 3 of course, and my yet unnamed project, which doesn't really count, since its not coming out for now. :P)



I suppose that after exams, the first thing I'll do is write some Irrlicht tutorials and some openGL ones. Keep the $$$$ coming in, you know what I'm saying?

See ya!!

YAAAH TRICK YAAAH!

I love that damn video!!!! Most people say Soulja Boy sucks, and I (sorta) agree. But this song is just so positive, and its one of the funniest music videos I've seen for a long time. This time, you just can't hate on Soulja Boy. The part with throw some D's on it was pretty clever, and shows that even if he can't rap, he at least knows his puns :).

I really wouldn't have known about it, if a friend of mine hadn't started saying YAA BITCH YAA! as a response to every question. A typical conversation between us now looks like:

Me : Hey man, whats up? You ok?
Him : YAAAH BITCH YAAAH!
Me : Okay then. Have you seen Clive around?
Him : NAAH BITCH NAAH!
Me : Right. Umm, I'm going to eat lunch now, what do you want on your chicken?
Him : THROW SOME D'S ON THAT!!!
Me : Uh-huh, ketchup it is.
Him : YAAAH BITCH YAAAH!
Me : Someone, please kill me.
Him : YAAAH BITCH YAAAH!
Me : GET OUTTA MY FACE!!!

As for mock exams, the studying isn't going badly. I think I've done a lot of Biology, so now I've just got to get in some Chemistry and English Literature. As usual, Physics and Add Maths are not a problem.

I haven't started work on LunaScene though. Go cry in a dark corner somewhere.

On a more serious note, it seems like Lupe Fiasco might take over Talib's place in the rap game. Check this:



I love the way the vocals of Matthew and Lupe contrast. I want Matthew's voice. It would be so cool...but screw it, you can't always get what you want.

Gavin out. Over.

Friction and Electrostatics

I am as sick as a dog as I write this blog post. I woke up this morning at 5:30 with the most spectacular headache...it was like an...umm... acid trip!! I went back to sleep after taking some medication and woke up at 9, feeling a bit better, although my temperature was still high. I ate a bit and drank a lot(no pepsi this time, guys!) and settled down for a bit, while studying physics.

When I was studying physics, I ran into Coloumb's law. For the less physically enlightened among us, Coloumb's Law states that:

The force between two charges is inversely proportional to the distance between them, and directly proportional to their magnitudes.

In other words:

F = (Q1 * Q2)/ d

where F is the force produced, Q1 and Q2 are both different charges and d is the distance between those two charges.

So, you ask, how does this sloppy physics lesson concern the average retarded chump?

Well, it doesn't.

It just shows that I'm above you mortals. Just kidding. I was bored, so I went onto Wikipedia to look and see if there was a vector form. Turns out there was.

So I decided to go and create a small, utterly useless program that shows Coloumb's Law in action. It consists of a box and sphere. The box represents an electric field, and the sphere represents a charged object in the field. The box is always positively charged, while the charge of the sphere can be changed using the left mouse button. The camera can be rotated around the field so you can see it better, by using the left and right arrow keys.

Please note that I programmed this thing when my body temperature was causing forest fires in my head, so although its pretty much bug free, the source code is too messy to repost here. Instead, I'll just provide the link for the executable. It uses Irrlicht with the openGL video driver, as most of my other programs do.

The link is located under Random Programs. Grab it and go!!!

You might also have noticed that I changed the theme and layout of the blog. I figured it was about time for a change of scenery, you know? I'll probably do it about every 4 months.

That will be all, fellow human.

See ya,
Gavin

P.S. Oh, by the way, I know you guys were all shocked at the last post, and most of you couldn't believe what you saw (yeah Sparky A.K.A. Christopher Backfista, I'm talking to you). So for the pure shock value of it, here's the image again:



Congratulations, perv. Sparky, you might want to wipe that stuff off your monitor, drool or otherwise.(Ewwww....grosss.....)

Dancing in My Own Blood

No, this post has nothing to do with the title. In fact, this post is actually a programming post.

You see, yesterday, I finished LunaLib's basic math routines. Yup, you heard that right. Matrix multiplication, matrix inversion, vector cross products, basic point in polygon tests, EVERYTHING!!!

So now, I have to work on LunaScene, which I have a gut feeling I forgot to mention. LunaScene is a scenegraph with a built in physics engine, which as you all might guess, needs more work. Advanced collision detection, collision response, etc... I have my work cut out for me. But still, it's going to actually be fun.

After I finish LunaScene and have a working demo, I'll probably work on optimization of LunaLib.

I'm going to have hell learning all the physics I need. But still, no knowledge is useless. It might come in handy if I ever drop out of school and decide to make nuclear bombs for a living. lol.


Now, in a completely unrelated side note, look at this. I almost pissed myself. You will too.



See how easy it is to go to jail now, Clive?

Still...they do say, if you dress like you want it, you're gonna get it.

The studying for mock exams is coming along great though. I feel really energized as of late. I guess Pepsi really is addictive, because I've been taking it in by the gallon to stay awake. Lets hope all this pays off in the long run.

Later peeps!

Almost Done

Mock exams are on their way. All programming work has stopped. All my energy is being focused on studying and picking up girls. Need to relieve stress. Can't keep coherent thoughts....

A long time ago, I made this video. Yes, I'm KirbzXXX. Hope you like it:


I also made Boondocks and Samurai Champloo AMVs, but youtube removed them. Oh well.

Sayonara,

Fighting My Way Through This Life

Well, Easter Holidays are coming up. The thing is for me, they're not going to be holidays, since I have mock exams coming up after them. I've been studying too much lately, so I decided to frag some punks to take the stress of. Well that didn't seem to work, so I decided to program some stuff. No, the second Python-Irrlicht tutorial isn't ready yet,its a lot of work, and I'm really too lazy.

However, I did do a simple tutorial on Irrlicht-Newton integration. I made a simple demo that has a sphere falling under the influence of gravity, to hit the ground. It teaches the basics of Newton and a little bit of design theory, so grab it.

Also, I hope you've noticed the donate button. Stick your pointer in it and send me some money please lol!!

School is Rotting My Brain

Well, I knew it would be a lot of work, but geez...I'm overloaded. Between lab reports and my IT SBAs, I can barely find time to take a breather. Oh well, that's life.

In the time that I haven't been studying, I've been reading up on SSE and Artificial Intelligence, especially pathfinding algorithms. Pathfinding algorithms are actually strangely interesting, but then, I'm different. I've also been brushing up on a bit of shader work.

Yesterday, I got my report card. It wasn't all that bad. I got the 96% average I expected for Information Technology(pssh....) and a surprising 98% average for Additional Mathematics(I expected mid 80s). I also got a 94% average for Chemistry, and a 78% average for Physics.

My Biology grade however is shameful. That one is really gonna haunt me for a while.

Oh well, screw it. If anything, I'll just clean out the innards of my brain with a shotgun.

Yesterday, I also played against Clive in Halo 3. I LOVE THE FRIGGIN' GRAVITY HAMMER AND ENERGY SWORD. We played a match with only these two weapons, with Clive preferring the sword and me preferring the hammer. I won. Our scores were 30:20. We also played with guns, where I won again, but by a smaller margin(30:26).

Clive kept on trying to pop me with the mounted gun that he broke of, but... I'm just too good lol.

Sayonara,

I'm Alive

Well, I did promise that there would be less postings this year, since I'm really busy. I'm working on the fundamentals of the second part of that Irrlicht-Python integration tutorial, but as I said I'm really busy, so its going pretty slowly.

I've also started working out...since I'm pathetically weak and it can do good things for my concentration. Well not pathetically weak, but I think I could be a lot stronger. I have mock exams late next month, and I get my report card this week Wednesday. Thankfully, I've done well enough not to fret.

That's all, life is pretty boring right now so:

LATER!!!

The Latest from The Twisted Mind of Gargamel

Well, my Internet just got fixed today(sucky Cable and Wireless!), so being the antisocial person you've all come to know and love, I was bored. To occupy myself, I decided to write a couple of Irrlicht tutorials. There are 3 of them in total. Two cover basic Irrlicht concepts, that is, setting up a window, and displaying an image, while the other one covers integrating Irrlicht with the Python scripting language.You can find it on the links to the left. I will post source code as soon as I get up off my lazy ass and decide to include it.

As for LunaLib, well...LunaLib ain't dead...Its on life support bitch!!!
A must watch for all the Boondocks fans out there:



Anyway, school resumes on Tuesday. Badabababada, I'm dreading it. Well, not really, its just that a sh*t load of work is going to be piled up on me. But I can handle it...I'm Gavin!!!!

...Right? I'm sure I can do this...I think.

Bye!!!