I forgot I had this account... AGAIN...

Look, I'm not much of a blogger, ok? I "don't have anything to say" unless I sit down and start typing it out; but since I "don't" have anything to say I never start... Whelp, here's a big ol' dump of an update....

Kiddo's basically OUT of MineTest. He spent too much time watching Minecraft videos on youtube and begging for all the mods he saw there (and he got a tablet for his birthday, not from me) so he's got the minecraft app on there to satisfy him... but he wasn't satisfied and began to pesters me for all the mods he sees in Minecract videos on youtube... so I tell him "I'll look into it" but then I forget about it until he asks again and I tell him I still don't know. The other day he was asking, and googling, for "How to hack into Jelly's Minecraft World," apparently one of the Youtubers he watches frequently for all the "Epic Minecraft Pranks" that the kid adores... even though he's not on a minecraft server... even though he's been told repeatedly about ettiquete... even though both his parents have talked to him about it (they seem to listen to her better than they do me... unless I'm yelling, which I don't want to do.) He keeps asking me to teach him how I do my coding stuff, but he doesn't pay attention (see the not listening unless yelling parenthetical). Heck, the kid can't even tie his own shoes (he doesn't pay attention when you show him something, so invents what he imagines he saw - Cookie Monster has been over this).... but that's enough griping about the kid... (I really hate Minecraft after all this)

I'm doing NaNoGenMo again.

I'm working full-time with benefits again... for now... hopefully it'll last a while (but I'm slacking off at work to write this, oh well.)

tags: update, parenting, minecraft, minetest

Time keeps on tickin... tickin... tickin...

As time keeps on tickin' into the future, I keep avoiding what I /should/ be doing in favor of survival and maintaining a veneer of sanity. Unfortunately my Yardstick of Sanity measures differently than other peoples, so I shall relay to you what has been distracting me so verily.

Roguelikes

I'm working on converting an old text-based game into a rogue, so I've been trying to study up on roguelikes (and get past the mines in nethack, apparently) - I've got a short proof-of-concept/robot-finds-kitten-clone (which at the time of writing doesn't change levels appropriately) - but it's made using rot-js and you can play it over on http://tilde.town/~kirch/roog.html

The Phenomenon of Interpretation

Matters not what word brain logic language for brain grok language. No understand? maybe. maybe not. Brain no logic, brain interpret. Brain invent sense where nonsense. Be looking Aphasia, see doctors help. Imagine bad time when no doctors help, patients hurt. This too:

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Perception dictates reality - logophilia - oulipo - interpretation - Meta-understanding. Nothing matters. Just try.

Jeopardy (and Lurch, in general)

I've been playing with the pinhook framework, and trying to do some NLP with the jeopardy function (so it follows the rules of answers instead of just fuzzy-matching from the user's answer to the supplied one) - but I don't wanna waste system resources to provide accuracy, and people in the channel demand more accuracy and more leniency at the same time (because of hard problems in AI/understanding that I don't wanna resolve for a fun lil' hack) - anywho, Lurch's source is available on tildegit

The Dead "Darkweb" & More

The web used to be mostly dark - BBSes where you needed to know the phone number (And might find other BBSes to find more phone numbers) to dial in to get files, information, free information - for the price of discovery and long-distance service. Soon this was replaced with newsgroups & gopherholes with better discovery methods. Then the world-wide-web hit, with school computers, pubnix and geocities, all sorts of ways to create your own sites, and web directories and search engines A lot of this is no longer on the web, but a lot has been saved by The Internet Archive - even things that didn't necessarily get a nice front-page link from their host. There's no way to know how much was lost, but I'm glad we have archive.org.

Community Headaches

Blinkenshell, man - what is UP with people thinking they own blinkenshell and can terrorize the community they're supposed to belong to? (Or, claim to belong to and demand co-equal treatment to people who actually follow the rules) I don't wanna play bad irCop, I just want people to climb out of their own anus and be nice to eachother - if it were my server the banhammer might come down a bit harder/faster, but I'm just trying to help build a community - why is that so hard?

tags: update, aphasia, wayback, gopher, bots, moderation, archives