The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

The rock

matt | May 28, 2005

Liz thought that I should post this.

I'm getting married!

matt | May 28, 2005

I asked Liz this morning in the Botanical gardens at URI.
(She said yes).

Letter to VWofA

matt | May 17, 2005

Because Fiore VW are kind of a bunch of buffoons and Speedcraft has been pretty good to me, excepting one salesman who was kind of an idiot. Might provide some amusement.
Link to PDF

Oh, how the mighty have fallen

matt | May 16, 2005

Tonight I made Tuna Noodle Casserole. Yes, with the peas, and cream of mushroom soup and crushed potato chips on the top.
What's next? Green bean casserole with the fried onion bits?
Seriously, Liz is feeling a little under the weather and this is a comfort food for her.
And, this weekend I'm going to learn how to [...]

Late night postiness

matt | May 15, 2005

Liz isn't here this weekend (visiting her folks), so I've been being bad and staying up and sleeping late.
Working on my BattleTech software (Mono/GTK# is pretty cool). Doing some more video editing of the old home movies. Painting miniatures (more Battletech, right now). Modified my coffee grinder to not suck.
I'll post pics of the mechs [...]

iTunes + Ogg

matt | May 5, 2005

The latest QuickTime update breaks the Quicktime Ogg Component.
6.5.2 downgrade

Battletech software

matt | May 4, 2005

Okay, so here's the initial stuff I've been working on.
Link
This basically handles all the initial weight stuff.
I'll do a project page at some point.
The interesting bit is the data-driven design: engines, chassis, etc. are all stored in .xml files, which should be editable by normal people.
For Windows people, 7-Zip should be able to [...]