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March 13, 2005
Parsing and Secrecy
I got the low-level parser (tokenizer, really) ready for the Shadowrun development Lance and I and some others have been working on. So I can handle the DAT file nast with some ease. I think I’m going to name this library “fuckdat” when it’s finished. The original author should be spanked for creating this format.
On Friday night, I went up to Albuquerque and ate with Major, my brother and Alex at the glorious Ninja Sushi. They’re getting kind of used to seeing us there; the cute waitress asked if we wanted our tempura ice cream pre-emptively. (Paul: it’s still the same one).
Afterwards we headed out to the Bound to Be Read, and I regret not having spent lots of money there. Definitely a cool store. Major turned down his pirate ducky at the last minute, but I wound up with an excellent book: “The International Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Fraternal Orders” by Alan Axelrod. I spent much of this weekend nose-deep in this tome and I have to say, inspite of a rather large bias (for a modern author, anyway) it’s chock-full of great information. The Elks, for example, were founded originally so that people in New York could drink on Sundays. It also has a rank breakdown for the more major societies, and big sections about the Masons and the Rosicrucians.
Tonight, we did a whole lot of not very much; got pissed at Netflix for the broken copy of Y Tu Mama Tambien, but Alex is going to try and watch it anyway tomorrow. I’ve seen it before several times. I think I give it $3.50 or so. This little perturbance happened about 30 minutes after I added about 40 movies to the queue, mostly classics.
It’s been a pretty pleasant weekend, hopefully this next week we’ll get ready to release the fucking program already. We’re in public beta if anyone has a Mac and wants to give it a whirl, please do. Michael is talking about setting up required corporate blogging, in which case someone will have to syndicate that on LJ too. He also finally ordered my business cards and shirt, for distribution at REAL World (what a great name), which we’re going to in a couple weeks.
Anyway, that’s about it for the past two weeks or so. :)
Posted by FusionGyro at March 13, 2005 11:21 PM
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