I finished most of the engine’s collision detection for the next milestone. It’s coming along nicely and fits well into the scene graph. My rusty math skills have come back to haunt me by slowing my progress some. I have mainly been doing network programming for the last couple of years so I needed a little review. I tried to obtain the knowledge by means of voodoo but I ended up burying Bill Pullman alive in my back yard. According to Hollywood that’s pretty much how a voodoo ceremony should go down. Yet, in the end, I had obtained no additional math skills. Finally, I realized there was no quick fix. I would have to buckle down and do it the old fashioned way. I hid behind a car outside the math building at my local university. When people walked out of the building I jumped out and yelled a quick question about trigonometry at them. This usually resulted in either them or me running away. It’s a sick world we live in.
I am currently working on the engine’s collision detection. The two books I ordered from Amazon.com showed up today. Does anybody care about this?
Why buy a Nextel phone? Nextel has terrible service coverage but their IDEN phone’s have GPS with an exposed API. They also have a reasonable deal on unlimited bandwidth. For these two reasons I overlooked Nextel’s faults and bought a Motorola IDEN i870. Two of my friends also own similar phones with GPS. My ultimate goal is to be able to track them at all times. They have gone long enough with the ability to walk around without me knowing their exact location. At any moment I may want to drive by them and throw a door knob at their knees. I can’t do that without knowing their exact location and that makes me upset. I wrote a small program which outputs their current GPS coordinates from their phones to a Google Earth kml file. This brings me one step closer to my ultimate goal of alienating all my friends. You can check out the project page: http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~anthony/gps/
