Category Archives: misc
The Software Patent Racket: What do we do?
This is an essay addressed to my colleagues, those who make software for fun and profit and those who enjoy all the benefits technology brings to our lives. A recent Forbes article contained an amazingly illustrative anecdote revealing the corruption … Continue reading
Can you see the force?
I’ve been working on my Master’s Thesis lately and getting a headache from all the formal writing. So I just want to blog some informal shit real quick. Here are a bunch of screenshots I took playing with my 2D … Continue reading
10.10 Ubuntu Release Party – Tallahassee, FL
On Saturday October 9th we celebrated the new Ubuntu version (as well as my birthday) with a big bash. My friend Nathan Crock and I know how fun Ubuntu is but we wanted everyone else to know too. The evening … Continue reading
Particles in BGE Update: Collisions
We have collisions! Check out the video to see how it looks This is a preview of collisions working in our OpenCL Particle System addition to the Blender Game Engine. We can collide against triangle meshes of objects that are … Continue reading
robots + skateboards
enj + foblander present: Over the break I pirated Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro and cut my teeth on this little skate video. Using tools like those for a project like this is kind of like using a backhoe … Continue reading
China, round 2
I’m back, after two years I’m back in Tianjin. Man its good to be here, but things are different and in a lot of ways. One of the most obvious changes is my environment. Buildings have popped up everywhere, construction … Continue reading
barack black out
Check out this short essay I wrote: http://enja.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/barack-black-out/
LMJ in clay
This Xmas I spent a week in Ellicotville, NY with my awesome family. Among family activities and snowboarding, we also played with some clay. This post is to showcase the work of my lil sister, Laura. She has a creative … Continue reading
Ever get the feeling you were being…watched?
This essay was conceived after reading about the recent AOL search data leak. A comment about the tragedy of people making light of such a privacy violation lead me to think deeper on the subject. The tragedy. The comedy. If … Continue reading
Assault on our Culture
Your culture is being destroyed, everything from you childhood is irrelevant and the nations children are being systematically destroyed. Yeah right! It sounds bad when put like that, but it seems to sound more rational when people say that videogames … Continue reading
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