Plaidophile

I finally got myself a guitar amp, specifically the Roland Microcube. $125 at Guitar Center. Has a buttload of built-in effects and amp models, runs for 20 hours off of 6 AA batteries (or indefinitely off the supplied AC adaptor), and is both louder and better-sounding than the huge stupid Kustom bass amp I had back in New Mexico while also being only a couple pounds and fitting in my backpack. Neat.

I got it with the intent of doing performances and donating whatever proceeds I get to various homeless support charities. (I just wanna perform. I already have a perfectly good paying job.) Though it looks like doing it in a subway is more trouble than it's worth, so instead I'll probably just do it in/around Union Square. (Central Park has a blanket ban on amplified devices, unfortunately.)

I was just going through the dusty crevasses of my site, and came across a collection of pictures which I took on my Hiptop back when I had it.

A new comic. (It was a bit too wide to fit into the page layout cleanly this time.)

Bunch of people from work ust celegrated going gold. i know it's totally cliche to get online and post a stupdi pointless weblog entry i'll regret tomorrow but fuck it i'm feeling awesome right now

and i'm still writing well-formed html. woo

In celebration of finally shipping, we all get five (5) days off, without it affecting our vacation time.

Awesome.

Finally.

WTF.

There's no way we're going to get out by the holiday shopping season if this keeps up. We're already cutting it WAY close as it is.

WTF.

7:46 PM Dear Programmers: Please make sure that you don't delete the same object twice in a row. I mean, I know it's so hard to look forward three lines, but still.

When using refcount-based resource management, make sure that your unlock count matches your lock count.

Yep, we're gonna have to submit again. Meh. (At least, we're pretty sure we will. Nintendo hasn't officially rejected the last build yet. But there's no way they'll be able to play through the game without it crashing.)

12:22 PM Lucky me, it turns out there was another crash bug in code which wasn't mine. Whee.

About an hour ago we submitted what we think is our final build. Woo.

Namco's on crack. Buy it.

We've finally submitted a build to Nintendo. Of course, one of the last-minute fixes James put in ended up horribly breaking something else, so we're going to have to resubmit in a little bit. But in the meantime a few other little gameplay bugs have emerged, so we'll be able to fix those too.

So all we can do for now is just idle and play video games while waiting for Nintendo to tell us why we suck.

As soon as James can finish unlocking all of the items in his monster savegame and verifying that everything in the game is unlockable, we build and submit to Nintendo. Woo.

3:30 so much for that. stupid unlockables saving bug.

I finally got fed up with not having a piano keyboard of some sort, and I went and bought a Casio PX-300, after falling in love with the 400 at Guitar Center, and previously falling in love with the PS-20 (which first opened my eyes to Casio's "serious" digital pianos) when I visited Spud in Seattle a while ago. (The 300 is essentially the same as the 400, just without most of the useless features and no LCD showing the current GMIDI patch name.)

Q: What happens if you have a class with virtual methods and a non-virtual destructor?
A: Inherited classes don't have their destructor called when the object is destroyed. Also, good compilers give you a warning since this is almost never what you want.

Q: Which two major compilers don't give a warning in this situation?

Longest Tuesday ever.

"Finger shooting" is a reference to doing a line of cocaine, even when it's clearly meant in the innocuous "pointing your finger and going 'bang' at someone" way.

"Pablo Escobar" is foul language.

Pixies, fairies, harpies, and other mythical beings are okay, as long as they're not on crack.

The L train was out of service. I don't know what's worse, the roundabout route I had to take or the fact I still got home at about the same time, even with the J and M both going realllllly slow.

When the DS comes out, I will have to buy one, and a number of games for it. Here are the ones I'm considering the most strongly.

Two nights ago, one of the traps finally caught something — a rat.

Tonight two rats were scampering around in my kitchen. When I turned on my light, one dove under the oven, but the other scurried all the way across and into a gap right next to my bed. Eegh.

holy fuck

2:57 Also, check out the Gamespot DS page header image. I wonder how many people will go "Hey I recognize most of those characters but who the fuck are those two people next to Mario?"

Seriously.

The demo ROM shipped out an hour ago, after which we had a long leisurely lunch where we didn't kill each other. And what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, right?

If I weren't feeling so drained I'd be feeling anxious about this being the first time that the press is going to see our game. Incidentally, for the purpose of the demo it's entitled "Crushed" or something, but that's probably going to change. We hope.

Guh. I really need a vacation. NOW.