Monthly Archives: February 2009

1234567890 Day!

Turns out later today is going to be 1234567890 on the unix timestamp. Quick lesson: unix systems keep track of the seconds since the epoch, which was January 1, 1970. Today we are going to hit 1234567890 — so cool!

Here is a countdown!

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A new tutorial is conceived

No posts for so long! I’ve been very distracted lately and haven’t put any time into game dev recently. Yesterday, however, I was really feeling the itch to dev something and just decided I would crank out a tiny little game until it was playable. I was expecting it to take about 2 hours, but [...]

Cats

When I moved from Texas, I brought my favorite of the three cats. She is pretty awesome for a cat, but that doesn’t change the fact that it both stinks and costs me a ridiculous amount of money when she drops a dookie (thats right, I wrote dookie). I hate shoveling cat shit and I hate shelling out $10 for a bag of litter that lasts two weeks. It literally costs me more for her to poo than for her to eat.

So, I have begun the arduous task of training my cat to start using the toilet instead of the litter box. Will it work? I have no idea — she is not a kitten anymore and she already has some pretty bad habits from the other two cats that were there when she grew up. Still, if it works it will be awesome; if not, maybe I’ll get a good failblog pic.