Words from the null.

Fire in the Sky is the largest rocket launch event in Washington State. It spans about four days, starting the Friday before Memorial Day, and running into Memorial Day itself. Friday is a mixed day of research launches and some commercial flights. Saturday is when most of the fun stuff happens, Sunday has an awesome raffle, and things get wrapped up on Monday. I arrived a little after 5PM on Friday, and we all left around 8PM on Sunday, for reasons I will be getting to shortly.

Today marks the end of day one of finals week of semester six at my tenure at DigiPen. Since A.I./S.I. are things I've talked about in the past, and intend to pursue further over the summer, I figure posting my "research" paper for sociology might not be a bad idea. I think there are a couple errors in the paper I need to fix, but rectifying those problems will have to wait until next week. For now, enjoy my brain dump.

http://www.nulldomain.com/files/artificial_consciousness.pdf

I keep telling myself, and you, my readers, that I am going to post more, and expand on so many ideas. I keep failing at this. I'll skip making such a meaningless promise tonight.

I suppose this post is a little late, given the first day of the new year is over half over already. Oh well, I didn't get to bed until after 5am, woke up a little before noon, and the words are finally coming to me.

So, 2009. You provided some good memories, some loss, and has really just been a roller coaster of thrills. Or something. It was a good year for gaming. School has been rough, both semesters of the year. Lets hope 2010 is better.

But we all know about all that, why rehash it? On to the new news!

As mentioned in the last post, I signed up for the Reddit Secret Santa gift exchange. I got green coffee beans as a result. Today, I made my first attempt at roasting them. I have documented the process photographically on flickr. Go look!

I have not ground the beans up yet, and brewed them, as my crappy blade grinder has vanished. This actually happened a long time ago, and I have no idea where it is. Time for a new burr grinder anyways!

It is just passed midnight on Friday morning. Fall semester has ended, and aside from one group paper to get in by 6pm today, I'm done until January. Well, sort of. I still have a bunch of stuff to get done over this break for next semester, but I at least have a little bit of breathing room.

Good evening, internet. This is yet another pointless post, just testing and evaluating posting stuff from android. Looks alright, but lacking features. I forsee making a better drupal editor in the future, or perhaps looking into collaboration if the author of the existing app.

Onwards!

Lots of stuff going on right now, and no where near enough time to reliably get it all done. Taking a brief brake here, this afternoon to update the site and whatnot. I'm going to try and post some more soon, hopefully in the next couple days. Lots to write, but thoughts need to be organized before that can happen.

Come one! Come all! Let us look back at the plans and failures of the last few months.

At around 11PM CDT on 7 April, 2009, Dave Arneson, co-creator of D&D passed away. Rest in peace.