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On Wednesday, I wrote nearly 50 kB of Hack Mars content. It was not in the normal form of Q and A or plot outline, but in the form of prose. So to add it to HM, it will take hours to convert it into usable form. But I'm convinced that with some major modification, I can add it to HM. The number is more important to me. 50 kB is a serious amount of information. I wrote it in 12 hours from 2 PM to 2 AM. I paused for a quick lunch and dinner, but I was really going at it. The amount of game time that the story covers is about 2 hour. The amount of actual time that it covers will be about 1 hours. I kinda thought about that after I was done writing it. I was thinking: "Wow, that was fun, but how will I ever use it?" While I was writing it, I kinda assumed it would just happen. But data doesn't translate that way. When you have something, it requires far more work to make it happen. That's where I am. I had a very productive day last Friday and I actually got a bunch of HM Python stuff working. You saw it with the Player Character Generator screen yesterday. It works pretty well. I worked on that until Monday when I stopped with a pretty decent system. I have work to do on it, but it's pretty clear what I need to do. So I wanted to start something else. I couldn't think of anything productive to do. That's pretty bad when you aren't playing video games and you're getting nothing good done. So I sat on my futon and picked up my yellow pad. Instantly, I started work on HM physics. It was so quick that in four hours, I had all the HM physics derived. Of course, I had derived it a dozen times before. This was just the latest, most clear definition of it. I had equations. Equations are good. Writing down goals is jack. You can't do anything but think when you write down goals. When you write down equations, you can do work. So after writing down the equations, I turned on my computer and typed them in. That's when it hit me: I couldn't implement them yet. Why? I lacked key infrastructure. Sadly, I had to make stuff before I could put these physics equations to work. So I loaded up Windows98. Ugh. Drivers, drivers, fuck drivers. I hate Win98. I hadn't booted Win98 since long before I got my new motherboard. It wanted to find all new drivers. And if you know Win98 like I do, you cringed when you hear this. Broken drivers, broken drivers, fuck Win98. I messed with it for an hour. You see, it decided that my cdroms didn't exist. And my mouse is USB, so it needed the Win98SE cdrom of course (stupid dumshit gdmfr!). So I couldn't do anything. No mouse, no good work could be done. I finally found that the Dual IDE driver had an option to use both IDE channels. Wtf are they thinking?! Why is the default to disable to the secondary ide? They want me to buy WinXP. NEVER! Microsoft will not buy my customership with shitty software. So I installed my mouse and I messed around. I ended up not needing the mouse for what I did. I played a side-scroller video game for all of Tuesday and I typed that novel on Wednesday. Yesterday, I didn't do very much. Today, I will attempt to implement the physics functions I wrote on Monday. Wish me luck. I'll report in ~11 hours.
*yawn* It's 2 AM. I dunno what to tell you, my readers. Perhaps you could tell me what interests you. That would make for an interesting JF sometime in the future. People I talk with are sometimes interested in what I'm doing. But really, it's all the same. Nothing really changes dramatically from one day to the next. Very simple, silly things happen each day, but it's hardly worth you reading this thing. It is worth writing it if I can find the strength, because I feel that there's something intrinsically good about information. Not just that it exists, but also that it can be accessed. Something that exists and is not accessible is not worth much. But having access to information makes a human being into more than just a human being. Some information is better than others. Some information can be reproduced at a million copies per minute. Some information has very little reproducability, but is accessible in such a way that produces good results. This is the way of information, and it is good. Many humans on Earth have spent the last century working on means of communication that lends itself to extremely good uses of information. For certain types of information where reproducibility is unwanted, high bandwidth communications are easily and cheaply made (telephones). Some types of information needs very little bandwidth, but very high reproducibility, cheapness, and mobility, so printing presses have been made. When the digital computer came about, data could be used and reproduced at the speed of electrons. But communication was not easy enough, so diskettes and modems were fashioned from electronics and telephones. This is the way of information, and it is good.
I wrote a very long essay yesterday, but did not post it because I lacked a picture. I also didn't do much of worth yesterday. My 22nd birthday is 2 hours away, so I'll post this VIDEO! It's 11 seconds. Download the low quality version [513.1 kB] or the high quality version [1.5 MB] As usual, you need the DivX Codec to view these videos. I could encode these into XviD if I wanted to, but I didn't, so there you go. People complained about the previous movie that it was far too short such that they could not even watch it. If your player has a loop button, use it. If it doesn't you're stuck with an 11 second video this time. 11 seconds is not extremely short. You follow Jav, you look at the building, you see EG1, you see the logo. If it were 5 minutes long with the same content, I'm certain viewers would complain about it lacking plot, character depth, and interest. Also, the file would be more than a few MB and you don't want that.
Greetings, this JF should not be here, but it is. Why? Because a certain motherboard has crashed fatally. But I am strong in the force and I have brought you not just something simple, but something cool despite the lack of a working motherboard for my main workstation. I'm writing this on my Sony Vaio laptop. It's a nice little thing, big keyboard, high resolution, and the willingness to work. It runs Windows. It's one failure I wish to rectify, but cannot because I lack a CDROM or floppy drive for this thing. Anyway, I like it how it is now, typing a rant in Notepad just like back in the day.
