Star Citizen screen shot
A recent screen shot from Star Citizen. Looking down on the north pole of the gas giant Crusader.
Archive of entries posted by Eris
Depressed again
Well, it’s that time of life again, when depression rears it’s misshapen little head and smiles in my direction. Things had been going very well for me this past spring, but then came a month of heavy rains and a flood that trapped me and ruined my RV. Since then I’ve been living with my …
Cute image
A Few Misc. Star Citizen Images
I’m a supporter of Star Citizen, an online space game currently in development. Some people have put up websites that let you create custom images related to the game. Here’s a few of them I’ve made. A Citizen Card for my original pledge. A Citizen Card for my current pledge level. A title for for …
First Harvest
Today I picked my first cherry tomato. It was delicious. Looking forward to more!
How does your garden grow?
Surprise! I’m making a new post! Behold my garden! Yeah, OK, so it’s not exactly your traditional garden, but hey, I live in a motorhome, so it’s not like I have a real backyard to plant things in. Initially I wasn’t going to grow much of anything this year because I had thought I …
My First Game
The past month I’ve been learning about the Unity game engine, reading the manual, going through tutorials, and setting up some test projects to tinker on my own. This week I finally felt comfortable enough to do a real game of my own from scratch, so I decided to start with a good old classic …
Games I Have
A recent post on a forum got me wondering how much I really need Windows for gaming, so I decided to see what games I have installed on Linux versus Windows. To my surprise I have far more games installed on Linux! However, the games I play most often tend to be only available for …
Trump 2016
A Tale of Two Languages
Recently I was talking to a colleague who is still in school and he mentioned a new blog post he had written about string search. He had implemented a brute force search and so I told him about faster algorithms that he should consider, specifically mentioning the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm. He read up on it at …