Thursday, May 05, 2005
Geez, Am I Always This boring?
I suspect that anyone who has visited BNL the last couple of days has been under whelmed with the quality of the entries. When I started this thing, I thought I had an above average life to write about and maybe an above average critical mind that would allow me to speak on the issues of the day. But I have to confess that maybe what I have to say is... well... boring from time to time. Maybe it would be better not to post on slow days.
I suspect that avid blog readers like personally oriented blogs telling intimate details of a person's life, entered daily in one and two paragraph slices. Trouble is my life seems to come in unexpected feasts separated by long famines. I'm still writing up the events of last Saturday -- one of those unexpected feasts.
Work has become a bit of a drag the last two weeks. I suspect I am too distracted by my blog projects to focus clearly. I'm hoping once I finish up my new game, get the latest "Larry's Life" chapter finished, and get MEME Watch fixed (it's registering all zeros on searches), I'll be able to clear my head for work. While I have blogged in various forms since 1999, I now feel guilty if I don't put something down on a near daily basis. I've gotten to the point where some things I do, I do just so it will make for an interesting blog entry later. I'm even thinking about going back to work part-time at The Canopy Club (a live music venue) just so I will have an endless string of music related events to write about.
Audrey said Monday looks good for going out when she gets back to town. [note to self, must work on segues] Audrey will be in my next "Larry's Life" Chapter -- we met Saturday. I give it about a 50-50 chance of happening.
As I mentioned MEME Watch is on the fritz. Either Yahoo.com has changed the format of their search results, or they are blocking non-browser queries (like Google.com does), in which case I may not be able to fix it. If they are blocking I'm glad they're doing it now before I get carried away with improvements to MEME Watch.
I have no idea whether anyone will like the Star Trek inspired web based board game I am coding. Maybe it will be received as so amateurish as to be considered a joke. It is at about 500 lines of PERL so far and each of those lines is far more complex than the TI-55 Programmable Calculator steps it was originally coded in 56 of -- each PERL line would probably be equal to 10-20 calculator steps on average. On the other hand, the original game required the player to mark moves on a board for themselves and the player had to read a set of numbers off the 8 digit glowing red numeric display to determine when they had made hits and whether they had won or lost. User friendly it wasn't, and yet it certainly impressed my peers in 1978 and got no end of play in an age before video games had arrived to any great degree -- we had Pong and maybe a Space Invaders at the Pizza Parlor. But of course the real popularity factor was that people were amazed that you could program something, anything to do something no one else had done before, crappy and trivial as it may be. Maybe they were all the more impressed because it wasn't a true computer, but just a calculator that had been programmed to play a game. That wow factor will certainly be lacking when I finish this thing today.
Oh and yes, those last two paragraphs would be examples of me lapsing into boring mode.
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2 Comments:
I'd be interested in the Star Trek game :) & I can agree, finding the time to post quality material for public consumption is a challenge. Don't worry though, I'll keep coming back ;)
By Daniel, at May 06, 2005
Hi Larry,
I'm happy to know you'll be waiting :)
I don't think you're a bore! Plz keep on blogging.I will continue to stop by from time to time :) Take care...
By blasianlotus, at May 10, 2005
