The U.S. Government Shutdown
The United States government has shut down, sending what is probably thousands of people on unpaid leave and grinding to a halt many services that, I guess, many Americans take for granted. So far, which is a few days until now, nothing has been resolved and there will be no “unnecessary” government workers doing their jobs (such as rangers and probably museum employees and stuff like that) until it is resolved. The debt ceiling is expected to be hit some time before this month is over. Meaning, the USA will not be able to borrow more money if they don’t fix that too, in a law. No such law was able to reach the top of the food chain for quite a while now. If they won’t be able to borrow more, the United States will default on its debts which, as I understand it, is a form of declaring bankruptcy. Which could lead to a total collapse of the US governmental and financial systems. (I know, I’m exaggerating, it’s probably less grim than I make it sound) And when the biggest superpower in the world is going down the toilet… I care about the fact that I can’t get my Astronomy Picture of the Day! You can get it here, by the way.
Posted in Humanity, IT, Less Interesting News, Thinking Out Loud, Weird by Eran with comments disabled.
It is done.
And by it, I mean this.
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Ahoy Me Hearty Sea Dogs!
This be that time of the yearrr again. Be ye ready to sail the high seas of Talk Like a Pirate Day? I still be stuck in the bilges of me academic degree, kicking the rats of web application programming. They all be keelhauled soon, me hope. I wish ye good fortune, fine winds, much booty and may all ye enemies be joined in Davy Jones’ Locker. Yarrr…
Posted in Geekdom, Less Interesting News, Religion, Weird by Eran with 1 comment.
אז יום כיפור היום, הא?
אתם יודעים מה יש לי להגיד על זה? יש לי תרגיל להגיש.
Posted in Less Interesting News, No Category, Practice, Religion, Thinking Out Loud by Eran with comments disabled.
The Humble Bundle’s Weekly Sale is up
You can find it here. You know that in physics there’s the idea of multiple universes and that every choice we have splits the multiverse further according to our options? Well, I don’t think this can happen here. I don’t think there is a universe in which this option is presented to me and I choose anything other than the obvious.
Posted in Gaming, Humanity, Less Interesting News, No Category, Thinking Out Loud by Eran with comments disabled.
?אתה באמת רוצה לפתח משחקים
פעם אחת נשאלתי את השאלה הזאת. נסה לתאר כמה אתה באמת רוצה לעבוד על משחקים בתור קריירה. התשובה שלי הייתה שכמעט כל פעם שהמוח שלי סוטה מהנושא ועובר לערוץ החופשי, המחשבות הן על משחקים. מכניקות, סיפורים, אינטראקציות, התקלויות, דברים כאלו. כמה זה גרוע? עכשיו אני עובד על המשימה הגדולה ביותר של התואר שלי, משהו שויתרתי על שבתות ועל חגים בשבילו, משהו שקצת לא נעים לי שאני לרגע לוקח ממנו הפסקה כדי לכתוב את זה, ועל מה אני חושב מדי פעם? עכשיו כשיש לי שרת ומסד נתונים וממשק רשת ל-Google Maps, איך אני יכול להפוך את זה למשחק? מה אני יכול להריץ על זה?
Posted in Gaming, No Category, Programming, School by Eran with 11 comments.
GOOD MORNING FIRST GRADE!!!
Congratulations to all my friends with children who now start their school year. Especially those who want their time back. However, the school we live next to… may we please nuke it from orbit?
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Procedural/Rift – Done!
I have officially completed my degree’s personal project. The report has been sent, approved and the code has been released. It was an interesting and fun to work on but now I need to let it go. Firstly, because I have another huge project to work on. And secondly, when I work on my game, I’d rather start with a clean slate and not work on some one else’s code base. I have linked the project publicly. It is now in my Projects base, under Gaming. Everything is there. The code, the documentation, everything. If everyone wants to take a look at it, they can. They can also read about exactly what I did. It’s all there for developers. If you want to play it, I have no plan to compile it myself right now because this is a tech demo more than it is a game and its very awkward to use without the Oculus Rift. But if you have the Rift, or even if you just have a Unity Editor and want to see it, please check it out and leave me a comment.
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“Mr. Lane… We’ve Been Expecting You.”
“Welcome…” We got the new one a few days ago. He’s in good company. He he he… :)
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Uncharted 3 – Drake’s Deception
Another wonderful installment in the series. Magnificent in many ways with beautiful pacing, setup and set pieces. Simply a pleasure to watch. I only have one complaint coming out of this trilogy: that it was a PlayStation exclusive and thus this was the only way I could enjoy it.
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