In the last update, I fixed up the input support, so now I can read the mouse location within a window. Here are the results.
Cursor location in window: 38 pixels right, 46 down.
Fun with Procedural Images: Mouse Support part 1
Category Archives: Mad Science
I try it at home, so you don’t have to!
Clockwork Gremlin plays Kerbal Space Program Part 3: From Kerbin to the Mun
When we last left our intrepid heroes, they had earned this much SCIENCE!
The tech tree so far
Oh look, only 70 more SCIENCE! until solar panels! And I just unlocked the Science Jr. module!
Clockwork Gremlin plays Kerbal Space Program Part 2: Sub-Orbital
When we last left our intrepid Kerbals, Jebediah had just gathered me some Science! Where exactly he got it from is largely irrelevant.
Science to SPEND!
The important part is that we’ve got some science. So let’s start spending that science.
Clockwork Gremlin plays Kerbal Space Program Part 1: Science To Do
Fun with Procedural Images: Back to Square One.
November 1-3 this year, there was an event called the Colorado Springs Startup Weekend. It’s not annual, because there were two this year, but this was the second one. I perhaps was not the kind of person they usually expect to have there, but I attended with plans to learn about starting a company and maybe show off what I could do, and I achieved everything I had initially set out to do. OK, mostly.
Most notably, I ended up working on a program that had some rudimentary GUI functionality, which meant I had to refine and learn some new portions of how the user interfaces with the computer. Particularly, a mouse, and panes. Hey wait, I can do mouse inputs now! That means no more of this:
The worst way to make pictures
It’s time for this!
Werkkzeug 4, by Farbrausch, who are awesome.
Clockwork Gremlin plays Kerbal Space Program! Part 0: What is KSP?
I’ve been messing around with Campaign mode in 0.22, and suddenly thought “Hey, I should use this for blog material!”
And so here we are. This is Kerbal Space Program:
Kerbals. Space. Program. It’s all there.
Day Five: What Happened To Day Four?
Life did. Life, and work. I’ve been up to my eyeballs in random calls to come into work on my regularly scheduled days off. I’m mildly disgruntled, but my paycheck rejoices. More importantly, I’m feeling a little frazzled and low on energy. Naturally it’s time for… AN ADVENTURE!!!
What kind of adventure, you ask? It doesn’t really matter as long as it’s something new. It occurs to me not everyone knows how to adventure like we do, so I thought I would go through a couple of our adventures for the unlearned, ignorant, or just plain new adventurer out there.
Fun with bacon part 1: not exactly candy
IT’S BACON!
If a blog is called “Candy-Coated Bacon,” you might expect to see something about candy-coating bacon. Or at least bacon.
Today, I shall not disappoint.
Day One
Today is the first day without your normal gremliny host, so let the pain begin!
So I guess what I really want to ask is if anyone has ever worked much candle gel as far as making better and more comfortable mouse pads? We (for the purposes herein “we” constitutes clockworkgremlin, Milli and myself) have! It turns out that ergonomically speaking, one of the best shapes to rest your wrist on while surfing the interwebs is that of two, soft but supportive spheroids supporting the wrist on either side. If you haven’t got the mental picture yet, we have put together that it strongly resembles upper female anatomy if you get my drift.
So we set out to make some for our own comfort and to see what kind of mischief we could get up to. Also, it’s really funny to tell other people you made breasts over the weekend.
First, we knew we had to find an appropriate mold. Not so hard as such things go, but not very easy to locate locally. We did end up making a trip to our local Hobby Lobby (kind of like a Michael’s or a Joanne’s or whatever you have wherever you are) and picked up several likely-shaped candidates.
Second, we knew that, unaltered, the molds would stick to the candle gel and make getting them out in one piece difficult, if not impossible. We had a latex coat kit (from the interwebs) and coated two of our vessels as per the instructions and used a silicone coat kit (also from the interwebs and also as listed in their instructions) to coat the other two molds.[Gremlin Edit: I bought both mold kits at Hobby Lobby.][Cupcake Edit: Semantics!!!]
Third, we melted the candle gel in an expendable pot and poured them into the waiting containers. Tired of waiting for them to cool, we shoved them in the freezer. Once they were finished, they were the perfect consistency. The latex molds initially yielded the perfect shape, but as they continued to cool the latex coating became loose, leaving a wrinkly texture to the finished product that was incredibly visually unappealing. The silicone coating was initially more difficult to remove from the mold, but the finished product did not have the disturbing loose skin that the latex coating boasted.
All in all, we learned much more than most know about making boobs that day.
On another note, one of the finished products disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. We can only assume it is in the shadows, biding its time, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Fun With Procedural Images
Screenshot from Farbrausch’s “The Product” 64kb demo
Many, many years ago, a German group known as Farbrausch created a rather impressive piece of software, known as The Product, a 64-kilobyte executable which produces, without the aid of a network connection or any additional files, a short, real-time rendered music video advertising all of the great things “The Product” can do.
The really cool thing is that at 64 kilobytes, the file itself is almost smaller than the download request, and it’s old enough that virtually every (windows) PC available today can run it flawlessly.
The Craving and The Fix
At rest, the human body consumes around 1300 kilocalories per day. That’s what it takes just to keep your body running. If you can eat less than that, you can actually lose weight by channel surfing on the couch!
Your brain weighs about 3 pounds. For the average adult male, that’s about 1-2% of your body weight. For something so small, it consumes a gluttonous 260 kilocalories every day.
That’s a lot of energy. Going to have to replenish it somehow.
Candy-Coated Bacon 