Archive for July, 2005
Sunday, July 31st, 2005
Crescendo Begins
Pack it up, pack it in, let Crescendo begin…
I worked on my new game today, which I have codenamed “Crescendo” to throw off ninja-coders who might reverse engineer my entire game design from the title alone. Here is the first screenshot, which has been only slightly doctored:
I know what you’re thinking: “This is [...]
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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
Ah, the Single Life
Yes, I did cut out the middle part of the cake and eat it because it’s the moistest part.
No, I am not ashamed of it.
(I think I’m finally starting to live the high life.)
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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
DLL Import Library Not Created
This post is really for myself when I search google for why my vc71 vc7 vc 7 DLL project fails to create an import library. Devin, it won’t create an import lib if there are no exported functions in the DLL’s code!
How could that happen? It could happen if you comment out all [...]
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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
Fixing My Dented and Scratched Door, Phase II
Last week I bought the materials to fix my car door, which I dented and scraped down to the metal on a cement wall. I called the dent fixers this week to see about them getting the big dent out, and they said they are booked til November, and “could try” to squeeze me [...]
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
U2 Theology
“Yeah, we will shine like stars in the summer night;
We will shine like stars–it’ll be alright”
Those lyrics are from U2’s classic song “With or Without You”, live at Slane Castle for their Elevation tour. I like the sentiment behind them, and it goes well with something I read in Alan Ames’ books of private [...]
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
Catechism Wake-Up Call: Mary Never Sinned
I have read the Catechism of the Catholic Church from cover to cover. That’s a good thing. But I also think that I now “know” the Catechism. That’s not such a good thing. Last week I had to dust off my catechism and take it to the Catholic Men in Action [...]
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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
Our Lady Peace
I have enjoyed various songs by the band “Our Lady Peace” since high school (for me, that was about 10 years ago–man I’m getting old). I made an impulse iTunes buy today of their breakthrough hit “Starseed”, and decided to get the live version of the song. Unfortunately the live version is not [...]
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
I consider myself a generally smart person…
but for the life of me, I can’t figure out how this blind teen pulls this one off.
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
Elevation (No not the U2 song for a change)
I frequently go to Mass at different parishes, and three different priests at these parishes each do the elevation of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament after the consecration different ways (you know when the priest says “Take this all of you and eat it; this is my body, which will be given up for you”, [...]
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
Having Handicapped Children
I read an article on catholicexchange.com today about many parishes’ lack of adequate facilities for families with handicapped children, and then I went to the author’s blog and read several of her posts.
Reading her blog made me feel sad and scared: Sad because the struggles she faces as a mother of an autistic child [...]
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Political Songs
Two groups I like a lot, U2 and Simple Minds, both have a number of songs that are political in nature. Sometimes this is obvious, and other times I don’t realize that the songs I am listening to are political until I read the lyrics or hear a commentary on them. One recent [...]
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Assumptions
Today I found out that someone I have been working with for a few months is a Catholic. This revelation startled me because I had assumed, for no good reason, that they were probably not Catholic or even Christian.
I realize that I make lots of assumptions like this one in my daily life with [...]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2005
Trivia Game
Question: What do Al Michaels, Kelsey Grammar, Chuck Norris, Jeff Foxworthy, Sammy Hagar, and Charlton Heston have in common? (Other than being male celebrities)
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Sunday, July 24th, 2005
Video Game Programming Idea
I brainstormed video game ideas today. I’ve been wanting to write a game after finishing my abound screensaver project last year. Unfortunately, every time I come up with a game idea, it turns into a Real-time strategy (RTS) game. Games of this genre involve gathering resources, building up a civilization or city [...]
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
Movie Night con G
Firstly, felicidades to Gerardo’s brother Enrique and sister-in-law Veronica for the conception of their second child! The G told me about it this evening, and then we decided to watch a movie.
Since both of us have a number of movies, probably thirty total, picking one is sometimes a challenge, so tonight, we used a [...]
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
Abejas, Flores, y Miel (Silvestre)
When I was in high school, I became fascinated with bees for a period of several months. My elderly neighbhor happened to be a beekeeper, and he had a hive of bees in his backyard. One time I took a day off of school, and he and I drove to an apiary (place [...]
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
Fixing My Dented and Scratched Door, Phase 1
I posted a few days back about the $1,000 estimate given to me on my car door which I scratched up and dented against a cement wall:
Functionally, the door works fine, so paying $1,000 to have someone fix it doesn’t seem like a good use of money to me. I noticed that the scratched [...]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
Medley
A medley of different things have struck my mind today:
1. Catholic girls love Pride and Prejudice, especially the 6 hour (A&E?) version.
2. I’m going to a Catholic men’s group meeting for the first time tomorrow and have to dust off my catechism for it!
3. Why be a priest if you’re not going to follow [...]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
Why Roe v. Wade is a Lousy Opinion (And Doe, and Casey, and Stenberg…)
I read an excellent summary of why Roe v. Wade was a terrible decision and how the Court has continued in this tradition with subsequent lousy decisions:
Doe v. Bolton: The Court created a loophole where abortion could never be regulated effectively, due to the “health of the mother” exception, which is often mistakened for the [...]
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Thursday, July 21st, 2005
Tour de Boredom
Yesterday the G and I watched some of the Tour de Lance France. It was a leisurely stage where Lance Armstrong’s closest competitors did not challenge him and seem to be indicating that they have given up trying to beat Armstrong and win the tour.
I was disappointed because C’mon, what’s the point of just [...]
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
John Roberts is Catholic
I don’t know if this description makes me more or less excited about this nominee to the Supreme Court:
Though Roberts is regarded as firmly conservative, he is not a so-called movement conservative whose politics drive his arguments.
Shannen Coffin, a Washington lawyer who has worked with and argued against Roberts, said he was also willing to [...]
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
Still Livingstrong
I walked out of H.E.B. grocery store the other day and saw a little old lady walking into the store, crouched over and probably less than five feet tall. On her wrist: a yellow livestrong bracelet. I wished I had my camera to take her picture, but she probably would have clobbered [...]
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
St. Maximillian Kolbe
I’m getting to host the St. Maximillian Kolbe icon this week from my parish’s pro-life committee and have committed to praying for the respect for human life through St. Kolbe’s intercession this week.
His story is so awesome and inspiring that everyone should read about it and ask him to pray for you!
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
Some Sweet Day…
… I gotta find a way…
I imagined looking at myself through God’s eyes a few nights ago, looking down on me as I laid down to sleep in my bed, and I thought, “Why should I worry about anything when such a wonderful God watches over me, night and day?”. I also thought about [...]
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Monday, July 18th, 2005
Movie Review: Hero (Jet Li)
The G and I watched “Hero”, starring Jet Li, last night. Steven Greydanus over at DecentFilms.com has a great review that you should read after you read my amateurish one.
The movie is a lot like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” which you probably saw, with fight scenes all making use of the wire-assisted martial arts [...]
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Sunday, July 17th, 2005
Somewhere Between Batman and Terminator
Today the deacon gave the homily at Mass. The gospel reading was Jesus telling his disciples parables, including one that I have always found especially insightful into understanding the Church and our world in general: The parable of the sower sowing good seeds and the enemy sowing bad seeds in the same field, [...]
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Saturday, July 16th, 2005
I Admit It
Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s feastday is today. I have been invested into the brown scapular for Our Lady of Mount Carmel for a number of years, ever since I went to a Carmelite retreat while discerning religious life. However, I don’t wear the brown scapular (I wear another one), and I admit [...]
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Saturday, July 16th, 2005
The Clapping Gloria Must Be Stopped
At most 7:30 am Sunday Masses that I have been to, there is no singing. That is okay with me, though I enjoy singing and would prefer to have music and sing during Mass. However, at my parish a one-woman choir has been playing piano and singing the Mass songs (Gloria, Lamb of [...]
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Friday, July 15th, 2005
My Dad’s First Mission Trip
My dad goes to a Baptist church although he does not consider himself a Baptist, and he is going on his first mission trip tomorrow to Mexico! Please say a prayer for him and the missionaries. I think it is mainly a medical mission with evangelization.
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Friday, July 15th, 2005
Are My Axle Seals Blown, Too?
I was careless a few weeks back and scraped my passenger-side car door against a cement wall.
Score:
Cement wall: 1
Honda car door: 0
The paint was scratched badly (to the metal in a small place) and the door was dented in somewhat. I took it to get an estimate at an auto-body shop, and the estimate [...]