27 August 2011
Games
04 July 2011
Bootstrapping
Here is LEGOCNC nearly ready for motor install. I can begin begin testing hardware/software controls soon. (You remember LEGOCNC don't you?)
Intensity Report: Medium
Slowly replacing bad habits with good ones. Over the years I have spent a lot of time writing and thinking about what happens to me, what I do, and what I think. It's a tendency that points to another trend: being caught up in a complex of procrastination and distraction that results in me never getting started and/or never finishing. The one piece of advice I need(ed), above all other schemes and lofty thoughts, is to begin immediately. That means to start with the thing that looks most like the thing I want, and if that doesn't work, change something and try again. That's the message I would send to a former self: Try Something. You don't even need confidence to start with, just try anything and see what happens. Before you write about it, read about it, or start thinking you don't have what you need, just try it.
I'm in the middle of my second night course in Mandarin Chinese. The first class was taught out of children's book. This next one is drastic step change from the last. Most of my class has lived in China for at least a year and they are there to "brush up on their skills". So being at the bottom of the class is something that bothers me a little, but even if I have trouble keeping up, I am learning things.
My brother wants me to help him make a video game because I am one of those people that "knows programming". I'm apt to help, just because I can see that he has similar issues with starting and completing projects. (It's a problem that's been passed down through generations. My father is a model airplane enthusiast in the strictest sense, but he has about 8 unbuilt airplanes in his garage and none that are fully operational as of this writing.)
Just another reason to make good use of my time.
Slowly replacing bad habits with good ones. Over the years I have spent a lot of time writing and thinking about what happens to me, what I do, and what I think. It's a tendency that points to another trend: being caught up in a complex of procrastination and distraction that results in me never getting started and/or never finishing. The one piece of advice I need(ed), above all other schemes and lofty thoughts, is to begin immediately. That means to start with the thing that looks most like the thing I want, and if that doesn't work, change something and try again. That's the message I would send to a former self: Try Something. You don't even need confidence to start with, just try anything and see what happens. Before you write about it, read about it, or start thinking you don't have what you need, just try it.
I'm in the middle of my second night course in Mandarin Chinese. The first class was taught out of children's book. This next one is drastic step change from the last. Most of my class has lived in China for at least a year and they are there to "brush up on their skills". So being at the bottom of the class is something that bothers me a little, but even if I have trouble keeping up, I am learning things.
My brother wants me to help him make a video game because I am one of those people that "knows programming". I'm apt to help, just because I can see that he has similar issues with starting and completing projects. (It's a problem that's been passed down through generations. My father is a model airplane enthusiast in the strictest sense, but he has about 8 unbuilt airplanes in his garage and none that are fully operational as of this writing.)
Just another reason to make good use of my time.
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