:TESTO:I've been increasingly dissatisfied with the instability of Firefox on my Mac. It just ate my post.

So I won't talk as much this time.

Boston Game Jam: Folks made "shift" themed games in 36 hours. A neat little sim toy posted thereat didn't work, the source didn't compile nicely for me, even in Windows. So I fixed it, with a hacksaw and GLUT. It works now. Source and (Mac OS X) executable here. I made little tinker-changes, to make the sim more self-sustaining. Recompilers should (I think) only need to change the #includes in "OpenGL.h" to suit the requirements of their own environment. Below is a screenshot of an intermediate stage of tinkering, wherein isolationist tendencies produced orbital death platforms instead of gentle slopes.



Super Bowl Ads:
Most of them are bad. I'm glad I don't work in an office, or drive a car. Fewer look-at-me-I'm-sexy ads, with the exception of GoDaddy. Robert Goulet makes a nice nut commercial - best of show, in my book (though there's still a whole inning to go, I think - the final round of commercials might beat it). The Coca-Cola GTA ad is interesting - does it provide a criticism of the game's wanton bad-making, or does its casual parody signal the Grand Theft Auto's entry into the accepted hallows of our culture?

Ultraman makes me smile.
Inconsistent Moon Gravity makes me frown.

I could have sworn the SalesGenie ad would twist wittily by the end. Woe to the world that it did not.

I wonder who's winning the Super Ball game? I suspect that many home-runs and three-point shots have occurred in the time between the new batches of commercials. And so on, with the non-sports humor.

Go Yeomen? :ENDTESTO: