Everyone who thinks my flare for the dramatic borders on attention whore should take note: I am severely underclassed and underdressed:

“The vast majority of the hit casual games are written in C++,” said David Fox of iWin at his talk at GDC’s Casual Games Summit on Monday, as attended by Gamasutra.Nonetheless, he took a look at the wide variety of tools, engines, and middleware that can make development of casual games easier and more profitable.

Gamasutra – News – GDC: Tools Of The Trade For Casual Games

This is a nice brief overview of various indie game platforms. Word to the wise, don’t write your engine from scratch. It’s 2009. You have more interesting things to do.

Not mentioned is the Lassie Adventure Studio, which I plan on using when it is released later this year.

I will, however check out the list in more detail if I become one of the laid-off masses with delusions of indie game glory.

via [googling for some unrelated code advice while working late because you have to share lab equipment with a midget]

Y chromosome – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Today, the human Y chromosome itself contains only 78 working genes,^[9] compared to close to 1500 working genes on the X chromosome. In some animals, Y degradation is even more severe. The dunnart, a marsupial carrying a 10-12 Mb Y chromosome, has only four characterised genes; among them the SRY gene, is the smallest known mammalian Y chromosome.”

Via [wikipidia while writing a dirty rap and forgetting which chromosome the mens have]

Some duchebags are proposing that you should use as much electricity as possible during earth hour. It’s funny and I get it, but it won’t be funny in 100 years when people are fighting and dying because of the pollution and energy consumption.

I know that repeating this crap is the worst thing I can do for it, but you should be aware of who you share your world with when you are considering saving it:

 
60 minutes of Anti-Earth Hour

View Current Signatures   –   Sign the Petition

To:  World Population

I am proposing a worldwide strategy to discredit the theories of man-made global warming, starting with the 60 minutes of ‘Anti-Earth Hour’. On the same date and time as Earth Hour, March 29th, 2008 at 8pm, your local time, join the fight against the lights off hour by turning your lights ON.

In fact, turn everything on! Below, I will provide you with a list of all potential items and objects that you can turn ON as a way to counter the effects of Earth Hour.

-all household lights
-air conditioner
-heater
-automobiles (your ride)
-automobile headlights
-washer
-dryer
-dishwasher
-stove/oven
-put on oven’s self-cleaning cycle
-microwave
-any/all kitchen appliances
-television
-dvd player
-game system
-stereo
-and any other electrical equipment you can think of

Please sign this petition to indicate your support and participation to 60 minutes of ‘Anti-Earth Hour’.

Disclaimer: I will not be held responsible for any actions that result in damages or harm, such as but not limited to, burning down your house due to faulty wiring, etc. Participation is at your own discretion.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

Save the Date

Mark your calendars for Friday, MAY 29th!

threewalls is hosting its unforgettable spring fundraiser:

You Oughta be in Fangs
Written and directed by Death by Design

Decadent 1920s party-goers in search of hot-jazz and free-flowing booze, head to an underground speakeasy run by conjoined whisper sisters, but discover cold bodies and free-flowing blood. Assisted by a team of waxen virgins and undead goons, Vampires move incognito through the euphoric crowd, adding to their brood.

Come and enjoy an evening of cocktails, live entertainment, and delectable Vampire bites.

Food created by Bleeding Heart Bakery

Event will be held on May 29th, 2009, details following soon, so stay tuned and be reborn this spring as the eternally undead!

Threewalls info (not sure if this is the address):

    *  119 n. peoria #2d
    * Chicago, IL 60607
    * 312.432.3972
    * info@three-walls.org

via [threewalls pr email]

Let’s say you’re playing tech support for your loved ones.

Let’s then say that they have a laptop by ACER (Aspire 5050) which has ~100 GB hard drive with two partitions of about 50GB apiece.

Let’s then say that said loved one has never put data on the second partition out of ignorance (the kind of ignorance divorced from shame).

You _could_ repartition the hard drive by first deleting the unused partition and expanding the primary partition using the Disk Manager.

But, if you get this error “cannot be converted to dynamic or the volume being extended is a boot or system volume” when you try to expand the primary partition, don’t fret.

Simply _shrink_ the drive. I did it by two bytes. When the disk manager returned from that dialog, it took up the whole 100 GB. It’s a bug, but when a bug does something useful it’s called a feature.

Btw, I’m sorry you’re working on a loved one’s computer.

Dlisted | Be Very Afraid

“The Smoking Gun reports that the methed out version of Billy Mays was arrested in Miami last month after he got into a brawl with a hooker! It all started when Vince picked up the pussy peddler, Sasha Harris, at a night club. The two new lovebirds went back to his room at the Setai Hotel where Sasha told Vince it would cost him $1,000 to slap and chop her snatch. Vince agreed, and so the fun and games began. While they were making out, Vince told the police that Sasha bit down on his tongue and wouldn’t let go. This caused Vince to punch her several times until she let go.”

CAZWELL

YouTube – CAZWELL – I Seen Beyonce At Burger King featuring Jonny Makeup.

Synthesia made a piano learning  tool that looks strikingly like Piano Hero (it was actually called piano hero, but there was an uptight lawyer afraid people might confuse the two). Although there have been piano and midi teaching tools before, this one looks like I might give it a go again. I just hope they build in support for all my extra moog knobs.