Wonder of the modern age
By Mike DalyApril 1st, 2003
I have been trying to cut back on two things: getting to sleep too late or not at all, and posting meaningless things here. This post has betrayed both of those goals.
Posterity, however, will eventually thank me for my infringement, because I have found the most amazing thing the computer age has ever produced. Surely, this was the original intention of computers. Without further ado, I present to you:
The meaning of life
Posterity, however, will eventually thank me for my infringement, because I have found the most amazing thing the computer age has ever produced. Surely, this was the original intention of computers. Without further ado, I present to you:
The meaning of life
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I'm embarrassed
By Mike DalyApril 4th, 2003
I had all day today all to myself to do whatever I wanted. I figured I hadn't done a comic for the page in quite a long time, so I'd go ahead and do that one for Final Fantasy VIII that I've been meaning to. How did it turn out? Absolutely horrible.
In addition to managing to be not funny, it also represents some of the worst artwork I've done in recent times. The drawings of my characters are extremely inconsistent from frame to frame, and I am really just posting it to remind myself of how shameful I should feel for not practicing my characters in too long. Oh well, what can you do? Maybe some other slow day I can make a redemtion picture that will make up for it. In the meantime, I will just have to live with sucking.
As usual, you can tell us what you think about he new comic here. Have a nice day.
In addition to managing to be not funny, it also represents some of the worst artwork I've done in recent times. The drawings of my characters are extremely inconsistent from frame to frame, and I am really just posting it to remind myself of how shameful I should feel for not practicing my characters in too long. Oh well, what can you do? Maybe some other slow day I can make a redemtion picture that will make up for it. In the meantime, I will just have to live with sucking.
As usual, you can tell us what you think about he new comic here. Have a nice day.
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Asphault is black, BLACK!
By Mike DalyApril 6th, 2003
Well, Filming of "The Crash" took place yesterday, and I am proud to announce it was a dismal failure. Everything seemed to be working out fine. We succesfully filmed our driving and crash scenes. But when we imported our movie onto the video editing device (aka Wayne's computer), the results were a little dissapointing. By a little dissapointed, I really mean extremely frustrating. All of our shots are just one big white blur. We were filming asphalt for god's sake! Asphalt is black! Why is our film white?!
hold on
WILLOW HAS FORGOTTEN HOW TO USE A COMPUTER! Also he won't think for one second how something can be loaded from a database that didn't get saved to the database first. Come on smart guy, you're destined for back-home-ville this summer if you can't think to hit the "show more rows" button! Now demonstrate your excellent computer skills and clean this up. - Wayne.
WILLOW HAS FORGOTTEN HOW TO USE A COMPUTER! Also he won't think for one second how something can be loaded from a database that didn't get saved to the database first. Come on smart guy, you're destined for back-home-ville this summer if you can't think to hit the "show more rows" button! Now demonstrate your excellent computer skills and clean this up. - Wayne.
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Okay, this is wierd
By Mike DalyApril 6th, 2003
I was writing my last post at the desk at work. Then I had to move computers, so I just saved it expecting to edit it up in our office. When I get to the office, my partial post shows up on the webpage, but not in the database. This is a little strange to me. Now not only can I not finish it, I can't fix the blatant spelling error in the title. I guess my only option is to make another post explaining it (hence, now).
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, black. Our movie is white asphalt is black. Ain't that a load of crap? In addition, we met some serious hurdles when it came to getting the appropriate post-production software to work. As I stated before, when I posted this, I hate windows movie maker because it forces you to use WMV format. Well, not only could we not get movie maker to save to a useful format, it couldn't even load the movie we had already video captured. This means we couldn't edit it unless we managed to get our hands on Premier. After struggling with Premier, we realize that it can't read wmv files, so the intro logo had to be redone. Thanks a lot Microsoft for windows movie faker.
Assuming this post gets saved to the database, I'll hopefully come back later today and show you just what I'm talking about by posting some frame captures.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, black. Our movie is white asphalt is black. Ain't that a load of crap? In addition, we met some serious hurdles when it came to getting the appropriate post-production software to work. As I stated before, when I posted this, I hate windows movie maker because it forces you to use WMV format. Well, not only could we not get movie maker to save to a useful format, it couldn't even load the movie we had already video captured. This means we couldn't edit it unless we managed to get our hands on Premier. After struggling with Premier, we realize that it can't read wmv files, so the intro logo had to be redone. Thanks a lot Microsoft for windows movie faker.
Assuming this post gets saved to the database, I'll hopefully come back later today and show you just what I'm talking about by posting some frame captures.
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Okay, nevermind
By Mike DalyApril 7th, 2003
I can't (and don't really want to) figure out how to do frame capture without some sort of extra effort, therefore I won't. The whole thing was just to complain anyway, which I'm trying to keep to a minimum as it is. (I'm not very good at it)
Anyway, I wrote a review of Capcom Vs. SNK 2: EO yesterday, I hope you enjoy it. I kind of start ranting towards the end, so it's a little longer than it needs to be, but hey, nobody complains (or compliments, or says anything at all)
Anyway, I wrote a review of Capcom Vs. SNK 2: EO yesterday, I hope you enjoy it. I kind of start ranting towards the end, so it's a little longer than it needs to be, but hey, nobody complains (or compliments, or says anything at all)
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The new Samus
By Mike DalyApril 10th, 2003
All my life I have been searching for a wild animal that can execute the coveted screw attack. I had almost given up hope until today (err, actually a few days ago), my search came to an abrupt end.
Indeed, Deep in the bamboo forests of somewhere, a panda lives capable of annihilating lanterns with the most devastating of attacks. In case you are wondering what I'm talking about, I have a convenient little link to it. Behold, the mighty screw attack!
In other news, I will be out of town this weekend, don't be expectin nothin from Wayne in the way of updates (I just said that to enrage him into doing one just to prove me wrong). Ciao
Indeed, Deep in the bamboo forests of somewhere, a panda lives capable of annihilating lanterns with the most devastating of attacks. In case you are wondering what I'm talking about, I have a convenient little link to it. Behold, the mighty screw attack!
In other news, I will be out of town this weekend, don't be expectin nothin from Wayne in the way of updates (I just said that to enrage him into doing one just to prove me wrong). Ciao
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Title under construction
By Mike DalyApril 14th, 2003
Ha! more like 'entire webpage under construction'! Ha ha ha! Oh wait, that wasn't funny.
Right, anyway, in case nobody notices, the main page here has a little bit of a different look. I asked webmonkey wayne to do a little php magic and give us a news archive feature where you could just click on a news title and it would give you a page with that, and it's previous news posts. Well apparently if you don't give monkeys specific enough directions, they decide to change the main page into their little php expariment even if it doesn't work at all. So, we are stuck with a huge mess below the posts that mean nothing. Sure the links are there, but they won't help, trust me.
Things in my neck of the woods are going pretty good I guess. I have easter break soon, and I probably won't be going home for this one, so if you cross your fingers, you might see some art or modeling out of the next couple of days. In other news, I have a short homework assignment due tommorow. It's only 4 questions on material I am fairly well versed with. Apparently the old dog is still doing old tricks (or something like that) because I am not doing my homework or sleeping. Can't you see the brilliant behavioral pattern?
In exciting web news, somehow Google.com has managed to find our little page. How this happened, I know not. But if you go to google and type "dueling monkeys", you will get us
...
On the 9th page of results, just between Tanarus petitions on the zone.com and the animal crossing community. I am shamed and humbled by the sorts of things that google thinks are more relevant to 'dueling monkeys' than our page (which, notably, does not have anything to do with dueling or monkeys). The most shameful is result number one. If crap like this can make it to the internet, why can't our brand of crap make it to the top?
Right, anyway, in case nobody notices, the main page here has a little bit of a different look. I asked webmonkey wayne to do a little php magic and give us a news archive feature where you could just click on a news title and it would give you a page with that, and it's previous news posts. Well apparently if you don't give monkeys specific enough directions, they decide to change the main page into their little php expariment even if it doesn't work at all. So, we are stuck with a huge mess below the posts that mean nothing. Sure the links are there, but they won't help, trust me.
Things in my neck of the woods are going pretty good I guess. I have easter break soon, and I probably won't be going home for this one, so if you cross your fingers, you might see some art or modeling out of the next couple of days. In other news, I have a short homework assignment due tommorow. It's only 4 questions on material I am fairly well versed with. Apparently the old dog is still doing old tricks (or something like that) because I am not doing my homework or sleeping. Can't you see the brilliant behavioral pattern?
- Homework is assigned
- Due date becomes imminent
- I stay up all night looking at flash sites
- Don't do homework
- System failure
In exciting web news, somehow Google.com has managed to find our little page. How this happened, I know not. But if you go to google and type "dueling monkeys", you will get us
...
On the 9th page of results, just between Tanarus petitions on the zone.com and the animal crossing community. I am shamed and humbled by the sorts of things that google thinks are more relevant to 'dueling monkeys' than our page (which, notably, does not have anything to do with dueling or monkeys). The most shameful is result number one. If crap like this can make it to the internet, why can't our brand of crap make it to the top?
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*bump*
By Mike DalyApril 19th, 2003
Well, I just realized that Wayne has finally fixed the front page problems i mentioned in my previous post. That means I must post more to bump my old post out of existence. There are still a couple odd things about the archive features, but I'm sure you can navigate them and if not, I'm sure Wayne will iron them out soon.
Anyway, on to the excuses. I spent a wonderful weekend these past few days in Northern Virginia visiting various relatives. I had a great time. In addition to having a great time, i didn't get any work done. Natrually Wayne didn't post, so that's why you haven't had a post in a few days.
Anyways, on to miserable excuse for updated content. I have been working on a weapon model for Mimesis in the past week or two, here and here they are. I hope you enjoy. I hope to have it animated up sometime this summer. It looks like I'll have my modeling time the rest of this semester used up with other stuff.
Anyway, on to the excuses. I spent a wonderful weekend these past few days in Northern Virginia visiting various relatives. I had a great time. In addition to having a great time, i didn't get any work done. Natrually Wayne didn't post, so that's why you haven't had a post in a few days.
Anyways, on to miserable excuse for updated content. I have been working on a weapon model for Mimesis in the past week or two, here and here they are. I hope you enjoy. I hope to have it animated up sometime this summer. It looks like I'll have my modeling time the rest of this semester used up with other stuff.
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This is a call to all you H4X0R5
By Mike DalyApril 22nd, 2003
Some nice internet-savy person decided to use our server to launch some sort of cyber-warfare-thingy (I don't know the details), and as a result, our server was down and had to get a new OS. Fortunately, all of our content survived, but there are still a few residual effects.
One thing that I noticed (that bothered me the most) was that prior to the attack, my e-mail account was full, and rejecting all incoming mail without telling me. So, this was slightly frustrating. But you can all e-mail me now, I assure you I will recieve it. Uh oh, I have to do work now. I'll finish this post later.
Ok, I'm back. I don't remember what this post was originally supposed to be about, but I have something new to complain about now. I get off of work at 5. I got home today at 6:37. Thanks a lot, CAT bus. I won't rant, for we have already done that extensively. Let's just leave it at the observation that I am not a happy camper. Oh yeah, and there are two new game reviews up.
One thing that I noticed (that bothered me the most) was that prior to the attack, my e-mail account was full, and rejecting all incoming mail without telling me. So, this was slightly frustrating. But you can all e-mail me now, I assure you I will recieve it. Uh oh, I have to do work now. I'll finish this post later.
Ok, I'm back. I don't remember what this post was originally supposed to be about, but I have something new to complain about now. I get off of work at 5. I got home today at 6:37. Thanks a lot, CAT bus. I won't rant, for we have already done that extensively. Let's just leave it at the observation that I am not a happy camper. Oh yeah, and there are two new game reviews up.
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Ludwig Von Monkey
By Mike DalyApril 24th, 2003
In our original site design we had a downloads section. Eventually, it became clear to us that we didn't make enough stuff to warrant such a section, so we removed it. What I had always wanted, though was a place to let people hear my music. I don't suppose it would hurt that much to just post it here.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you my organ music. I must explain a little about this, though. I was playing around with audio effects and exports, and I found this old abandonned opus I started over 3 years ago. It was simple and straitforward, so I used it as an expariment and this is how it turned out. Aditionally, I made this techno version that you may also find interesting. I tried to post a whole music piece, but I couldn't get access to the ftp and I'm not sure what that might do to our bandwidth usage.
Hopefully, there will be more in the weeks to come. If you like what you hear, please feel free to let me know.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you my organ music. I must explain a little about this, though. I was playing around with audio effects and exports, and I found this old abandonned opus I started over 3 years ago. It was simple and straitforward, so I used it as an expariment and this is how it turned out. Aditionally, I made this techno version that you may also find interesting. I tried to post a whole music piece, but I couldn't get access to the ftp and I'm not sure what that might do to our bandwidth usage.
Hopefully, there will be more in the weeks to come. If you like what you hear, please feel free to let me know.
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Vincent Van Monkey
By Mike DalyApril 24th, 2003
I spent this afternoon gathering a lot of my modeling and level design stuff into one place. After getting it in the appropriate format, i went ahead and added it to the galleries. So, you will now find a much expanded modeling gallery. This represents a fair deal of the work I've done for mimesis these past two semesters as well as some of the game design stuff I've done before that.
Additionally, I've been working on another movie project, which I've tenatively called "Ios Trailer". I've put together a screenshot of one of the scenes in the art gallery here. Let that be a little preview for you. In the end, the trailer should be a little less than a minute long, feature a mixture of 3d and 2d art, and should have an original soundtrack. Look for it in the distant future.
Additionally, I've been working on another movie project, which I've tenatively called "Ios Trailer". I've put together a screenshot of one of the scenes in the art gallery here. Let that be a little preview for you. In the end, the trailer should be a little less than a minute long, feature a mixture of 3d and 2d art, and should have an original soundtrack. Look for it in the distant future.
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Summer is coming
By Mike DalyApril 27th, 2003
Yo yo yo. It's such a beautiful day outside, it's quite a shame I have to work all day. Sorry, I don't mean to waste your time telling you things you already know. I especially don't mean to because Wayne will beat me for making useless posts.
So, I have to give this post meaning. As you may have noticed, I have considerable interest in game development stuff. I am very excited about this project:
"... funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The idea is for us to build a UT2K3 mod that teaches kids about the effects of sun exposure. My idea currently is to create a game where you're a life guard on a beach, and your tasks are to run around giving people sun screen, sun block, umbrellas, hats, etc, to slow their exposure to the sun. While you're doing all this, people along the beach will be getting up and swimming, moving their blankets into the sun, playing beach games like catch or some other easily animated action games. In this regard, it's a little like a resource management game, where your resources are the sunscreen bottles, umbrellas and hats, and the levels that you're managing are the sun exposure levels of the people on the beach. "
This may not sound like something a lot of you want to play, but it sounds like a lot of fun to make. Getting to model a scenic beach vista. Create my own perfect vacation spot. Getting to do 3d models and textures for beach chicks, and animate them. You get the idea.
If any of this comes into fruition, You will be seeing some screenshots in the modeling gallery sometime.
Also, (although I've almost given up on the thought of getting feedback) I've been messing around with my graphics engine again recently, but I'm encountering problems. If anybody feels like giving me some C++ pointers, (bad pun, sorry) let me know.
So, I have to give this post meaning. As you may have noticed, I have considerable interest in game development stuff. I am very excited about this project:
"... funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The idea is for us to build a UT2K3 mod that teaches kids about the effects of sun exposure. My idea currently is to create a game where you're a life guard on a beach, and your tasks are to run around giving people sun screen, sun block, umbrellas, hats, etc, to slow their exposure to the sun. While you're doing all this, people along the beach will be getting up and swimming, moving their blankets into the sun, playing beach games like catch or some other easily animated action games. In this regard, it's a little like a resource management game, where your resources are the sunscreen bottles, umbrellas and hats, and the levels that you're managing are the sun exposure levels of the people on the beach. "
This may not sound like something a lot of you want to play, but it sounds like a lot of fun to make. Getting to model a scenic beach vista. Create my own perfect vacation spot. Getting to do 3d models and textures for beach chicks, and animate them. You get the idea.
If any of this comes into fruition, You will be seeing some screenshots in the modeling gallery sometime.
Also, (although I've almost given up on the thought of getting feedback) I've been messing around with my graphics engine again recently, but I'm encountering problems. If anybody feels like giving me some C++ pointers, (bad pun, sorry) let me know.
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I'm pissed
ByApril 30th, 2003
.. At myself. I just had a big program due and misjudged the time required to finish it all on time. There was one part that would have taken an extra 2 hours to get right, and it was worth nearly a third of the total program grade. I've been working on this all day (about 7 hours) and did some work on it the night before. Yet I still will barely pass this assignment. I got a 100 on the last one.
This bothers me. Not only does it make my grade in the class crappy, but I see that I'm not the best at programming, which is pretty important to my major, Computer Science. They say that you like what you are good at. If that's true, it doesn't look promising. I like making this website. I may not contribute to the content much, but I enjoy making it work. The problem is that its not entirely too hard to make something like this work. People get paid to make sites that are efficient, pretty, fast loading, and most importanly: RELEVANT TO SOMETHING. Ok, ok, this site is kinda relevant to ... umm... nevermind.
So yeah I'm whining quite a bit. I'm dissapointed in myself tonight. I'm not sure if I want to pursue this degree or not.
It's easy to say, "Hey Wayne, stick it out and you'll get throught it. It'll pay off" but its not so easy to make it happen. What do I do? I think I'll go get the pliers out of the garage and see if the tooth fairy has any helpful advice. Or some of you could write me about it or anthing else and I could save some teeth.
By the way, we added a new meal after a long drought. Fix it up. It's yummy.
This bothers me. Not only does it make my grade in the class crappy, but I see that I'm not the best at programming, which is pretty important to my major, Computer Science. They say that you like what you are good at. If that's true, it doesn't look promising. I like making this website. I may not contribute to the content much, but I enjoy making it work. The problem is that its not entirely too hard to make something like this work. People get paid to make sites that are efficient, pretty, fast loading, and most importanly: RELEVANT TO SOMETHING. Ok, ok, this site is kinda relevant to ... umm... nevermind.
So yeah I'm whining quite a bit. I'm dissapointed in myself tonight. I'm not sure if I want to pursue this degree or not.
It's easy to say, "Hey Wayne, stick it out and you'll get throught it. It'll pay off" but its not so easy to make it happen. What do I do? I think I'll go get the pliers out of the garage and see if the tooth fairy has any helpful advice. Or some of you could write me about it or anthing else and I could save some teeth.
By the way, we added a new meal after a long drought. Fix it up. It's yummy.
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