Pug’s Place

No, I’m not dead. I’m merely finishing up projects and papers. I’ll be posting more once I give my last presentation tomorrow. That last presentation is on Gpremacy, and I’m showing a 2 minute video of multi-player gameplay which I had the great fun horrible time of making yesterday. Xvidcap can’t seem to capture more than 220 frames in one shot before slowing down to grabbing one frame every 5 seconds or so. This spelled doom for my 1000 frame demo — I had to re-simulate portions, start over several times and even fake one shot with the GIMP. A real pain. Then the added pain: encoding those demo screen captures to a video which Microsoft Windows Media Player can play naively. WMP SUCKS!

So, now, about Billy Joel… I ran across a column on MSN Slate this morning (via Findory) about the man which interested me, titled Billy Joel: Oh, the squandered genius!. It’s a little critique about Joel’s drive to be an “artiste” and how it has gotten in the way of his music. Anyway, I was interested and now feel a need to acquire more Elvis Costello music.
Side note: it appears Intel is dropping the ‘Pentium’ name. Instead, it appears we’ll eventually be able to install Fedora Core X on a Intel Core Y computer. Cute.