Posted on Friday, November 27, 2009 at
I’ve been wondering how to apply agile-esque methodologies to things outside of programming, especially since I’m not that great of a programmer. To recap, agile (or what agile means to me) is the mindset that releasing content early and frequently yields better results than finishing and polishing something you release/perform once in a great while. It would seem like this sort of methodology would work with something like the performing arts, since performers are always in a state of flux: one continually gets better.
Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at
To kick off the visual arts section of the blog, I’ll outline some of the inspiration behind anim3, the third serious animation I’ve started with an intent to release.
First, there is the widely read ‘Le Petit Prince’, or The Little Prince. Specifically, the world he inhabits served as a sort of model to the setting of anim3. However, the plot for anim3 is exceedingly simple (even, I think, compared to the plot of Le Petit Prince): I decided that a convoluted plot a la Elephant’s Dream wouldn’t be as easy to portray, and as this is my first time out on a complex setting/background, I wouldn’t want more complexity than necessary.
Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 at
So, I finally got around to pushing out this update…
We have a second iteration of our coilgun, which was mostly put together and worked by my friend Clinton. For quick specs, we used thicker wire (21 gauge), more wraps over less area/layers (who-knows-how-many-layers over maybe 2 inches on a maybe .2 inch pipe versus one layer over 6 inches of an about 3/4 inch pipe), and more voltage ( 2 dual-parallel caps in series).
Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 at
So, just to follow up with my gripes about Ubuntu, it turns out that upgrading was the cause of my troubles. Doing a couple of clean installs (first to find corrupt libraries killing init within 3 seconds of boot, second to find I had installed x86 inadvertently, and the final one to get x86_64) got me to a working install, and I must say, it’s pretty good to be back out from under XP.
Posted on Sunday, November 1, 2009 at
So I’ve been having troubles with Ubuntu for the last few days: first, upgrading the desktop causes a cyclic restart after logging in: sound is broken again, as I remember putting good hours in making that work: and now I couldn’t find the command to upgrade without a gui. For someone concerned with gaining some server market share, that particular command is not very easy to find. Mind you, I’m not going to jump ship: I’ve also tried to concurrently install Mandrivia, and that’s not working out too well either.