it’s here!

my copy of shadow of the colossus finally arrived!  this is such a great game.  my only gripe is that it’s for the playstation.  it would look so much better on xbox or pc.  oh well, maybe there will be a sequel on ps3

halloween!

it’s halloween in guild wars!  and it only gets better!  (but i can’t spoil anything)  witness lions arch / tombs

jury summons

after what i’m sure was a lot of careful consideration, i was chosen to serve on a jury for my county’s supreme court! as if that honor wasn’t enough they’re even go to pay me 10 us dollars a day!! man with that kinda cash coming my way i’m tempted to tell my current employer [...]

free music streams

philosomatika is a great stream to listen to while working.  trance music keeps you alert and productive.  nectarine plays demo scene music which is mostly good except for the occasional long strings of chip tunes.  i advocate using moderation while listening to chip tunes. any others?

why god why?

so i’m shopping for a new video card to replace my dead 9700. my system is agp and i don’t quite feel like upgrading to a pci express system seeing as how this 2.5 ghz is plenty fast. so i figure i’ll get a cheap 6600 agp to hold me over until i update the [...]

add in parallel

add to 64 3-bit numbers in parallel using mmx intrinsics: __m64 plane0, plane1, plane2; // source bit planes__m64 out0, out1, out2;       // result bit planes__m64 x;                      // bits to add__m64 carry;                  // tempout0  = _mm_xor_si64(x, plane0);carry = _mm_and_si64(x, plane0);out1  = _mm_xor_si64(carry, plane1);carry = _mm_and_si64(carry, plane1);out2  = _mm_xor_si64(carry, plane2); mmx makes me happy

daylight is the enemy

i disagree that witching hour is their best, but then again i have had it looping for a couple days now…

korean consonants

korean has consonants with three different versions. there’s a normal version, one that is spoken with more breath and one that is spoken like angry or further back in the mouth or something like that. you know, i think it’s some sort of crazy sick joke on foreigners. here’s an example: the words for axe [...]

a little less ghetto

by popular request i’ve de-ghetto-ized my blog. comments can now be added and a rss feed is available. enjoy it!!

filtering trick

here’s how you cut down the number of texture samples needed for a filter. instead of sampling two adjacent pixels, scaling by a weight, and adding, sample at a point in between the pixel and use a different weight. to calculate the offset between the pixels and the new weight just set the two equations [...]

gw arena

i’ve been hopelessly addicted to pvp random arena in guild wars this weekend. i think 4v4 is way more fun than 8v8. there are just so many fun turn arounds. i’ve been focusing on necro curses and mesmer illusions and have been able to pretty easily 1v1 anything i come up against. well except for [...]