Mostly boring stuff going on around here. Work on existing projects continues apace; but new projects have not been coming despite all hopes otherwise. So once these are out the door - and they are scheduled to do so in about a month or two - we have nothing.
At home, I've been taking care of a few boring household things. Did taxes, ordered some stuff to make my room cleaner and more organized. In particular I got these shelves(which are quite big and sturdy), a canister vacuum, and on Monday I should get a Roomba as well. I hate cleaning, but the big motivating factor was that this house tends to get fleas and clothesmoths, and the owner, the well-meaning immigrant mother of a co-worker, only does sweeping when she cleans. I've tried just washing my clothes a lot, but it's not a complete solution for either pest.
Fortunately they're both pretty harmless. The moths only want to go after my socks, and the fleas seem to prefer the floor to my bed so I don't even notice them until I get up. So I got the vacuum today, fired it up, and made a pass. I need to do another one for some crevices and covered areas, and also wash my clothes again. When the Roomba comes I'll run it regularly and see if there's an improvement.
My diet has wavered a few times. My main problem with eating nutritiously is calories. It's easy to get calories from sugar, but those are hard to use effectively - they make my energy levels peak and crash really quickly. Protein sources like meat, milk, cheese, peanut butter, supplements etc. are difficult to consume in enough quantity for a meal. Same problem holds with nuts, walnuts have lots of calories but they can't contribute a huge amount. I've been having oatmeal because it blends really well with protein powder, but I suspect that I get some of the same problems with it that I do from sugars. My blood pressure still sometimes gets high by the end of the workday, but not as dramatically as it used to, and I think it would be entirely countered if I took a 20-minute cardio break around lunchtime. I should start doing that. There is a huge impact in diet on my workout performance and I think I need some mix of fats/carbs/protein to be optimal. This past week I didn't have many fats(walnut supply ran out at work, didn't get any milk) and it basically made me not want to exercise at all. But eating two greasy slices of pepperoni pizza fixed my motivation and didn't exact any obvious penalty. Kind of funny.
I decided that I am going to remake a game I did in Game Maker years ago - "Deep Sea Descent" - submarine 2d shooter. So I'm building out some stuff for a Flash version. I plan to target a 10mb download as that is the max most Flash sites will take. Things being done with the project include:
-fast environment collision(no object-to-object broadphase yet)
-a compact bitmap-animation/data-integration pipeline.
-plans to use 3d model renders to do all the ships and environments as that is easier/faster/better for this sort of game. Am learning Blender to do it.
-plans for FSM-driven AI with possibly some pathfinding.
-plans for yet another stab at a component-based entity system. I never feel like I get this completely right; I've done it like four or five times.
Maybe it'll be done by the summer. Maybe I'll still be employed then!
At home, I've been taking care of a few boring household things. Did taxes, ordered some stuff to make my room cleaner and more organized. In particular I got these shelves(which are quite big and sturdy), a canister vacuum, and on Monday I should get a Roomba as well. I hate cleaning, but the big motivating factor was that this house tends to get fleas and clothesmoths, and the owner, the well-meaning immigrant mother of a co-worker, only does sweeping when she cleans. I've tried just washing my clothes a lot, but it's not a complete solution for either pest.
Fortunately they're both pretty harmless. The moths only want to go after my socks, and the fleas seem to prefer the floor to my bed so I don't even notice them until I get up. So I got the vacuum today, fired it up, and made a pass. I need to do another one for some crevices and covered areas, and also wash my clothes again. When the Roomba comes I'll run it regularly and see if there's an improvement.
My diet has wavered a few times. My main problem with eating nutritiously is calories. It's easy to get calories from sugar, but those are hard to use effectively - they make my energy levels peak and crash really quickly. Protein sources like meat, milk, cheese, peanut butter, supplements etc. are difficult to consume in enough quantity for a meal. Same problem holds with nuts, walnuts have lots of calories but they can't contribute a huge amount. I've been having oatmeal because it blends really well with protein powder, but I suspect that I get some of the same problems with it that I do from sugars. My blood pressure still sometimes gets high by the end of the workday, but not as dramatically as it used to, and I think it would be entirely countered if I took a 20-minute cardio break around lunchtime. I should start doing that. There is a huge impact in diet on my workout performance and I think I need some mix of fats/carbs/protein to be optimal. This past week I didn't have many fats(walnut supply ran out at work, didn't get any milk) and it basically made me not want to exercise at all. But eating two greasy slices of pepperoni pizza fixed my motivation and didn't exact any obvious penalty. Kind of funny.
I decided that I am going to remake a game I did in Game Maker years ago - "Deep Sea Descent" - submarine 2d shooter. So I'm building out some stuff for a Flash version. I plan to target a 10mb download as that is the max most Flash sites will take. Things being done with the project include:
-fast environment collision(no object-to-object broadphase yet)
-a compact bitmap-animation/data-integration pipeline.
-plans to use 3d model renders to do all the ships and environments as that is easier/faster/better for this sort of game. Am learning Blender to do it.
-plans for FSM-driven AI with possibly some pathfinding.
-plans for yet another stab at a component-based entity system. I never feel like I get this completely right; I've done it like four or five times.
Maybe it'll be done by the summer. Maybe I'll still be employed then!