Since I graduated from David Thompson ten years ago this month, expect maudlin reminiscing about high school over the next few weeks. I expect commentary from anyone involved. (You know who you are.) My mom’s kept around a lot of my papers from around that time which I asked to be shipped down [...] » Read more

Anyone looking for l2rib should note that I finally fixed the download links. The files they used to point to were certainly present on mac.com’s disks, the corresponding web service was just refusing to acknowledge their existence - until I shortened the filenames. Sorry about that. By the way, I’m also aware that [...] » Read more

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral – The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan Judging by the documents on the Web and on USENET that claim or deny that RenderMan and OpenGL share the same matrix conversions, there appears to be some confusion about matrix convention ordering in RenderMan - even among [...] » Read more

I’ve been trying to learn - really learn and understand, not just use ineffectively - the monster that is the Standard Template Library. The fact that the mud is written using STL classes doesn’t mean squat as far as my real understanding of the STL goes. Meyer’s latest book is helping a lot, and [...] » Read more

I have been trying not to be an utter nerd in this forum, but I feel a welling of nerdality overwhelming me today, and I feel helpless to resist. Non nerds may want to ignore the rest of today’s ramblings and check out some cool pictures of Da Vinci’s Last Supper, post-restoration. Nerdaciousness [...] » Read more

jfong@playerkill.com now works. So that’s now what all my outbound mail reads, including mail sent to Pixar folks today (but no one has yet commented. Wusses). I had to settle on using exim since sendmail was beyond what my little head could handle. Getting mail working was motivated in part by my [...] » Read more

Some people on the rec.games.mud.diku newsgroup were tossing around their C programming Brainbench scores so of course I had to try it out. Didn’t score too badly, but boy, those questions are utterly useless when it comes to real programming - lots of stupid questions about the baroque syntax used when dealing with types, [...] » Read more