Jane Austen was a Bastard
Jane Austen strikes me as quite the bastard, from the stories she tells.
I mean that in an appreciative way. And I think the adaptations I’ve seen of Jane Austen’s work are happy, & don’t tend to show so much of an angry, bitter side to them. Pride and Prejudice Take Caroline Bingley, for example:
She’s (maybe) the [...]
Arduino Spaceship Interface in the Atom DSL
In my previous post, I discussed some of the simple details behind a pure C example programming an Arduino.
Using that understanding, I was able to implement a pure C implementation of the Spaceship Interface project. (“Spaceship Interface” = “green LED + 2 blinking red LEDs”, btw). The Atom EDSL is a DSL embedded in Haskell; and is advantageous [...]
Explaining Pure C Blink Example
I’ve been playing around with an Arduino Uno this past week. I came across this post from balau82: it gives a basic “blink” example program in C, and a high-level overview of how to come up with such a program.
The high-level overview wasn’t obvious for me, so I’d complement that blogpost with this, to explain in further detail. [...]
International Women's Day, Holidays, and Businesses
My previous post about “Silly Things to Say on International Women’s Day” got some attention on International Women’s Day this year. I thought I’d continue the tradition of writing about it this year: What I saw on Facebook this year was rather tame, but still interesting:
Facebook presented a large banner, “Happy International Women’s Day” emblazoned, with a minimum-effort-required [...]
On Anger and Activists
Oh, activists. <3 As a couple of examples, here’s IdleWord’s post about how to fix online advertising. – It’s an insightful, well-informed piece, with thought-provoking conclusions.
As another example, here’s Steve Johnson’s discussion of a ‘maximum wage ratio’. It’s less impressive, but still has some interesting discussion points. In both of the above pieces, the authors discuss an issue [...]
Drama in Romancelandia: On the Courtney Milan post about Bobbi Dumas
One doesn’t tend to think of romancelandia as discordant.
Perhaps I’ve not been reading romances long enough. You’d also think that a genre set on characters having Happily Ever Afters, where characters get along after conflicting disagreeing with each other (& where the problem is almost always “poor communication”), wouldn’t have a problem with authors getting along with each [...]
What Makes a Game a Good Toy
I recently played through Just Cause 3, and had a lot of fun playing that. - I think, though, that after ‘liberating’ all the towns, collecting all the collectibles, and completing all the missions, there’s not as much innate incentive to play the game as I would’ve thought.
Considering Just Cause 3 is a game where you can fly-like-batman, [...]
Thoughts on Sky Rogue
I recently purchased a cheap flight-stick (a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro) so I could play through some of the old X-Wing games. (Although, supposedly it’s possible to play through these with a controller, and some thought).
Naturally, I then also bought whatever flight games that looked fun on the Steam store. Sky Rogue was one of the stand-out games.
Setting up Mutt with NUS Student Email
This is for setting up NUS student email (hosted with Office 365) for the Mutt Mail User Agent; particularly, using IMAP, and alongside other email accounts. Why you’d want to use Mutt, I’m not entirely sure. Probably Thunderbird will serve your needs as well as need be.
But if you’re wanting to learn something productive while procrastinating, then Mutt [...]
Patapon 3
Sigh.
I recently bought a PS Vita. - A long time ago I has a PSP. I started the first Patapon game on that, but never got very far. And the Singapore PlayStation store isn’t cool enough to have the first two Patapon games. So here I am. Patapon 3 is quite different to the previous games, apparently.
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