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posted a message on Twitter “Finished my raspberry tea. Time for skating.” 7:11 pm - Comment

posted a message on Twitter “I met two awesome people today through a social network. I can't wait to meet them in person.” 6:32 pm - Comment

You know, like paper? or binder? Clip? Get it? Ehhhh.

(Speaking of which, Staples has installed a display of colorful/oddly-shaped paper and binder clips which can be crammed into one of two sizes of four-compartment tub, priced by size rather than weight or content. It's like a candy machine for people like me.)

So I was hole-punching Nerve-Wracking Tax Form #458 just now and the three-hole punch didn't perform completely. So I stuck the paper back in, muttering, "Three holes are better than two."

Dirty? Feminist? True unless you're in a boat?

loved a song on Last.fm Elton John – Your Song 12:14 pm - Comment

posted a message on Twitter “Someone new said I was cute. Yay for ego strokes. Bounce bounce.” 11:20 am - Comment

posted a message on Twitter “Trying to get back into the groove of working on my hobbies. Doing some soldering now.” Tuesday at 7:22 pm - Comment

posted an entry on genetikayos Where the Hell is Matt? Tuesday at 1:31 pm - Comment

posted a message on Twitter “I finally received 2/3rds of the Doomtown cards I ordered months ago. My collection is nearly complete.” Monday at 10:30 pm - Comment

posted a message on Twitter “Hung out downtown Palo Alto, was nice. Then we went for a soak, which was also nice.” Monday at 10:28 pm - Comment

Some of the folks at Google have released a sweet Google App Engine Helper for Django. It consists of a skeleton Django project with all the little tweaks necessary to run on top of App Engine, and it makes it really easy to get started.

I used the helper to start a simple Django app that shows tiled maps, using the images I previously created. Making a map generator is way, way down on the list of things that might possibly make this game fun, so I just quickly made three 10×10 islands manually. Here’s the code which generates the island in the screenshot:

island1 = _Expand("""O O L L O O L L L O O L C_road_s L L L L F L O O L L_road_en L_road_ew L_road_ew F_road_esw C_road_w F O O O L L L L F_road_ns F L L O O O O L L L_road_ns L L L O O L L L M L_road_ns L L L L L L L L L L_road_ns M L L L L L L M M L_road_ns L L L O O L L L L L_road_en C_road_w O L O O O O L L L L O O L""")

The app picks one of the three islands randomly and spits out an HTML table containing the image tiles. A little bit of CSS makes it fit together without borders/gaps:

table { border-collapse: collapse; } td, tr { line-height: 0; padding: 0; } .island { border: solid 1px black; float: left; margin: 1em; }

If you want to see it live, the latest version is running here.

posted a message on Twitter “I kept hearing a glitch sound yesterday and today. I thought my laptop was dying again. It turns out it was just my watch going tick.” Monday at 5:04 pm - Comment

posted a message on Twitter “I helped pull weeds and also went skating last weekend. Boy I'm sore. Hopefully go have a soak tonight.” Monday at 10:48 am - Comment

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posted an entry on genetikayos Writer's Block: Entering the Game June 26 at 8:09 pm - Comment

posted an entry on genetikayos Regressing to childhood? June 26 at 7:49 pm - Comment