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Studies That Matter?
July 16, 2002

Man, when that inspiration bites you, you really gotta run with it or risk losing it all, and hot diggity damn, did I do that today. Three, count 'em, THREE totally original strips were conceived, written, and created on this day. Wahoot for me and my bad self. So it looks like you guys ARE going to be getting some extra goodness in the near future. Keep an eye out for it!

Well, hell. Don't have much to add today - mostly because I'll all inspired-out - but I'd like to add a little mention that you should pick up the August issue of Popular Science: if you already get it, w00t for you, but yeah. There's an (admittedly not terribly accurate, but all the same) interesting article about game mods in it, not to mention a little somethin-somethin about some very nifty little mini-flying-machines, one of which Web Guy Josiah and I are eager to own. But yeah.

That's it for me. Take care, you crazy fools.

From the peanut gallery,
Annie "Blue" VM

The sky isn't always blue
The sun doesn't always shine
It's all right to fall apart
Sometimes
- Robert Miles
"One and One"

Flying machines? Hell yeah. There's a mini-chopper in the popular science that looks to be the shiznit. I don't know what kind of mileage it gets or how fast it goes or even when they are going to be available, but I want one. The price is supposed to be in the $25-50,000 range, which is most definitely worth it considering the passenger sedan pieces of shit that are currently running for that price. Man, I remember when you could get a halfway-decent car for $10-15,000 - now you can get a Kia for that price (I have no idea whether Kias are a good buy, I've never owned one).

So yeah. I was mucking around with some of the built-in Python 2.2.1 libraries and discovered a little one named Asyncore. Quite a cute little library. In around 30 minutes I wrote myself a quick and dirty little chat server. Not real advanced, but it has some basic code for a mud server I'm going to be writing in my spare time whenever I get around to it.

One quick last note. When trying to regression test your socket server...Don't go and try to paste 6+megs of text into a win2k command prompt (running a telnet client). I did, and watched the csrss.exe service suck up 200+ megs of ram and 200+ megs of swap before I tried to shutdown the computer, and watched as all programs exited normally...except for the command prompt windows...which never quit (and I couldn't kill). I wonder if that's a known win2k bug. *shrug* I'll just write a program that sends crazy amounts of information next time I want to regression test it.

Hrm...It really wouldn't take much time to write an IRC-style server now that I think about it. Or even a Napster-style server. Pity I have never done a GUI in my life.
Be good people.
- web guy Josiah