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- October 17, 2004
Movie Props from Master Replicas
October 17, 2004Read more
I thought I had outgrown such things, but the tasty goods on Master Replicas’ Site had me salivating. Who wouldn’t want a durable metal Star Trek Communicator (depicted) with built in sound effects? Or their own Star Wars thermal detonator, to help bring negotiations to a tidy conclusion? Some items have interactive simulations too! The short notes on each item are an interesting read also, detailing the origin of the original props and how they were interpreted to create the final replica.
These things aren’t cheap at several hundred dollars a pop, but the reviews on the net seem to hold Master Replica in hard regard. We salute you, Master Replicas!
- October 17, 2004
Tommy
October 17, 2004Read more
Tommy is a Russian Blue, attached to my high school buddy Mark out in Irvine, California. I first met Tommy (who’s named for a character in a play) in Boston when Mark was going to law school. He’s an endearing-yet-odd cat that chirp-squeaks when you pick him up. I think the chirp means, “You have 3 seconds to put me back on the floor before you are quite dead”. So far, I have not seen the time limit tested.
- October 17, 2004
WordPress Install Practice
October 17, 2004Read moreJust going through the famous WordPress 5-minute install to see what I need to do to do this from scratch on my server, since a few of my friends have expressed interest.
- October 16, 2004
A Menagerie of Classes
October 16, 2004Read moreSo I’ve been working on a Flash game for a client. It’s got a bit of everything: a little physics, a dash of GUI, and a lot of animation. Unfortunately I can’t show anything because I have a “blog clause” in the work contract, which permits general discussion about the techniques used but no revealing of the process until it’s released.
So this week’s challenge is to refine the class hierarchy and shake out some sequence bugs. The hierarchy is based largely on the concepts we had at Qualia: Sprites, Sequences, Pieces, Players, and Controllers. The hard part is to get them all to talk together, in a specific order, without creating odd interpendencies.
- October 16, 2004
Iron Wok Jan
October 16, 2004Read more
My sister passes this link along: Iron Wok Jan. I haven’t checked it out yet, but it seems to be another cooking manga, like Yakitate! Japan. Browsing through it a bit on Amazon’s “look inside” feature, it seemed a little on the creepy side, whereas Yakitate! Japan is a bit more on the weird side.
The excerpt of Publishers Review says:
Take the concept of television’s popular Iron Chef, add a few remarkably well-endowed men wearing snug cooking gear, toss in some gratuitous violence, and you’ve got Iron Wok Jan.
Hm, personally I can do without the “well-endowed men” part, but YMMV. Check it out at Comics Worth Reading or Amazon.
