Pug’s Place

I haven’t really slept since Sunday, so forgive any disjointedness…

I’ve finished the version of Gpremacy and its final report which I am turning in tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow. My adviser, Dave, last week asked me to get everything which he was going to grade into him before Thanksgiving, and since I’m leaving town on Friday… that meant I had to get him everything on Wednesday (he’s not on campus on Thursdays). So I haven’t done much sleeping, instead choosing to code like a maniac and finish writing/editing/proofing the Gpremacy report.

I now have a burned CD with “Gpremacy Version For_Grading” and the report PDF. Tomorrow I’ll take the report to be printed in color (there are two pictures) and turn it all in. Then I take an exam and relax until Friday.

The major change in Gpremacy is that it has an AI which is essentially moronic. It can’t attack or make money, just defend and expand, defend and expand. Even writing that little took a lot of effort. Expect better things later. Right now the AI only works in single player mode, but it won’t take me long to get it working in multiplayer, too.

Now to the real reason I’m making this post, a short anecdote:
I came back from a meeting on campus tonight and entered my apartment like usual. I had a half-empty can of Full Throttle in one hand and my keys in the other. Very casually I went and placed my keys in the refrigerator and dropped the drink on my dresser. It took a few seconds before I figured out why my keys didn’t make a key-jingling sound.