Site is up!

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November 10th, 2002
Oh yes, the day has finally come. The site is up in its early stages, but still needs tons of work. You can be sure that things will change a lot over the next few weeks. Hopefully for the better

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Willow Declared Royalty!

By Mike Daly
November 17th, 2002
Xbox live was released friday, and natrually, I was there. I played Mechassault this last weekend more than I should have, definately enough to know that I can kick most people out there's butts. Gabe from Penny Arcade seems to believe that he is the mech king. Well, until I have a chance to test that out, I am declaring myself mech king. Want some, Gabe? Come and get it.

One of you fools want some? Bring it. My tag is DuelingMonkeys. Wayne will also be playing every once in a while, so don't jump to the conclusion you are better than me, if you just down one of my mechs. If you see DuelingMonkeys and his guest, you'd better believe it's the both of us ready to rock the house.

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Local residents identified as apparent slackers

By Mike Daly
November 21st, 2002
A local source reported recently that they had not seen an update to the far-from-complete page Dueling Monkeys for at least 3 days. Investigators are keeping a close lid on information surrounding the delay. Analysts speculate the administrators Wayne and Willow could be "lazy".

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Belgian Waffles less than stunning

By Mike Daly
November 23rd, 2002
Wayne and I have finally gotten around to cooking something with the intention of adding it to the site. We tried to make Belgian Waffles this morning (err ... afternoon), but they didn't come out as good as we thought they would. We ended up eating eggos for the latter half of the meal.

I don't think we are going to reccommend anything that can so easily be beat by eggos, so we're not going to post any waffle recipes yet.

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Triangle IGDA meeting soon

By Mike Daly
November 23rd, 2002
I guess this is pretty irrelevant to most of you, but the next meeting of the Raleigh/Triangle chapter of the International Game Developers Association meets December 4th. You can expect me to be there.

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So close, yet ...

By Mike Daly
November 25th, 2002
I drew comics to accompany each of the reflections, but have not gotten around to getting them on the computer yet. Although they are written, it may be a while judging from my past performance procrastinating. I have had a new drawing done ready to be colored and sent to the gallery for months, and I haven't touched it.

I guess this post wouldn't be complete if I didn't make a pathetic stab at an excuse. Really, I have been numbingly busy with school recently. Software Engineering most of all, it is my nemisis. In addition to that, I picked back up on the misguided notion that I could produce a physics demo for my game engine by christmas and spent some time doing that. Where does all my time go, I don't even get to waste it on video games anymore. I haven't played mechassault in too long.

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There is no light

By Mike Daly
November 25th, 2002
As I mentioned last night, I got some work done on my game engine. I was trying to implement surface normals for use in lighting and physics. This, in itself, is not difficut. For some reason, however, when I add a light to the scene, the gpu still insists on not shading the terrain. Stupid computers. At least the normals exists so I can use them for physics.

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Battle won - war in progress...

By Mike Daly
November 26th, 2002
These past few days have been a real trial. If you noticed, I posted a rant on Software Engineering (it was listed as 2 days ago, but it's like 12:20 now, so I'm counting it as a day). The time that I wrote that rant and the due date of our final project were not close by coincedence.

I truly hate that class and all the crap it has made me go through. I could have left to go home with my family for thanksgiving Tuesday afternoon (Nov. 26) if it weren't for this project. Instead, I spent all of yesterday and today trying to finish it. I finally got it done, and it looks good, but we are going to fail a lot of the test cases, so my grade will be less that stellar. But it's finished, and that's all I care about at this point. I would like to think this ends my trials and tribulations for this class, but the final still looms like a dark cloud on the horizon.

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Images at last!

By Mike Daly
November 30th, 2002
Well, I finally got around to coloring and adding the comics that accompany each reflection. It's amazing the power of procrastination. I got all of this done in an attempt to put off writing a paper due tommorow. I guess after I finish writing this update, I'll have to start it.

So, what if this update never ended, then I wouldn't have to do the paper. Um ... heard any good jokes recently?

...

This is a true story from the WordPerfect helpline. Needless to say, the help desk employee was fired; however, he/she is currently suing the Word Perfect organization for Termination without Cause.
Actual dialogue of a former WordPerfect Customer Support employee with a caller:
  • Ridge Hall computer assistant; may I help you?
  • Yes, well, I'm having trouble with WordPerfect.
  • What sort of trouble?
  • Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away.
  • Went away?
  • They disappeared.
  • Hmm. So what does your screen look like now?
  • Nothing.
  • Nothing?
  • It's blank; it won't accept anything when I type.
  • Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out?
  • How do I tell?
  • Can you see the C: prompt on the screen?
  • What's a sea-prompt?
  • Never mind. Can you move the cursor around on the screen?
  • There isn't any cursor, I told you, it won't accept anything I type.
  • Does your monitor have a power indicator?
  • What's a monitor?
  • It's the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV.  Does it have a little light that tells you when it's on?
  • I don't know.
  • Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that?
  • Yes, I think so.
  • Great. Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it's plugged into the wall.
  • .......Yes, it is.
  • When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one?
  • No.
  • Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable.
  • .......Okay, here it is.
  • Follow it for me, and tell me if it's plugged securely into the back of your computer.
  • I can't reach.
  • Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is?
  • No.
  • Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over?
  • Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle - it's because it's dark.
  • Dark?
  • Yes - the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in  from the window.
  • Well, turn on the office light then.
  • I can't.
  • No? Why not?
  • Because there's a power outage.
  • A power... A power outage? Ah, Okay, we've got it licked now. Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packing stuff your computer came in?
  • Well, yes, I keep them in the closet.
  • Good. Go get them, and unplug your system and pack it up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store you bought it from.
  • Really? Is it that bad?
  • Yes, I'm afraid it is.
  • Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them?
  • Tell them you're too stupid to own a computer.


I stole that from Jokes.com

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