The office I work in has just run a Game Jam so I took the risk of humilating myself by entering against a bunch of coders when I can hardly rub two bits of JS together. What made it more fun was I chose to do it in 2D and use C# as the language… Continue reading Gamejam 2017
Category: home life
Cthulhu vs Cancer
A few weeks ago @Mikimus_Prime tweeted that he was setting up a charity auction to raise money for Cancer Research UK after his mum died recently from it. My uncle also passed away from Cancer and its something that deep down I’m terrified of. All those paints, the fibreglass, the dust, the drink etc… I’ve… Continue reading Cthulhu vs Cancer
God created Arrakis to train the faithful
I don’t know about training the faithful but it’s been training my poker face. A few more games of Dune under the belt and I’ve been enjoying how you can use the cards to create layers of intrigue and out and out base cunning. We only managed to round up five players this time, but… Continue reading God created Arrakis to train the faithful
Science time
Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained. Pardot Kynes. Another Dune quote but its apt for so many things that happened this weekend. Friday Firstly on Friday, I gave a brief talk at Dorkbot Anglia about how I used our Celestron telescope and a cheap, off the… Continue reading Science time
Dorkbot Anglia
Tomorrow I will be giving a talk at Dorkbot Anglia 13 about how I cut up a webcam to take pictures and video of the night sky with the Dort’s Celestron telescope. It’s at the town hall and seems that I’m up first. I will (hopefully) be demoing how I stack frames from video to… Continue reading Dorkbot Anglia
Something wicked this way comes
Its only a few days to Halloween and for the last couple of years the Daughter and I have sculpted something for our window display as a way of having some fun and creating something unique. We’ve done tiny pumpkins, ghosts and she did a witch last year while I started the Jezail sculpture (which… Continue reading Something wicked this way comes