When you get a new dentist, and you are as old as he is... then you are officially an old guy. That is all.

A couple entries ago, I talked briefly about my new method of doing props for AE2. Given the fundamental 3D nature of the new engine, I have a few more choices than simple texture-mapped billboards for representing objects and level props. Bog-standard billboards have a tendency to behave strangely…

Quote: "At the same time he had begun to understand the great principle that moved the universe, at least that part of the universe which had to do with careers and success: you found the crazy guy who was running around inside of you, fucking up your life. You chased him into a corner and grabbed …

More fiddling around on Accidental 2. I'm currently redoing the prop system, getting away from A1's sprite-based system and implementing a system of 3D modelled 'fakes'. In this system, props are simple 3D meshes that can be as simple as quads or planes aligned to wall, floor, roof, or arbitrary ax…

My boss/cousin started to lose his hair last week due to the chemotherapy, so to help him feel better about it, myself as well as a bunch of his other friends and relatives shaved our heads. I didn't Bic mine like some did, but I did shave it to the scalp with the clippers. It's starting to grow ba…

All of the modifications I was musing about introducing into the Accidental Engine have been implemented, more or less. I've swapped in Golem3D's terrain blending scheme, and I've implemented walls as 3D-ish constructs in order to take advantage of the z-buffer for sprite sorting. There is better s…

Just finished reading The Forever Hero by L.E. Modesitt for the umpteenth time, a volume comprised of the three novels Dawn for A Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior and In Endless Twilight. It's one of my favorite books, and by one of my favorite authors, and despite it being some of Modesitt's less…

Discovered that I have lizards living in my house.

As long as they continue to moderate the spider population, then they are honored and welcome houseguests. They better stay out of my fridge and away from my root beer, though.

I don't really want to turn this into a photo album. (In fact, if I'm ever going to do this again, I will probably just sign up for an online photo album somewhere). But I went on a little road trip up north today and took a few pics at a place called Montezuma's Well. (A bit of a misnomer, really,…