News You Can Bruise for August 18, 2001

Sat Aug 18 2001 06:35:

After playing a few games of ADOM 1.0, I can say that its main new feature is a Knapsack Problem-like assignment of prefixes and suffixes to previously ordinary weapons and armor.

Sat Aug 18 2001 06:42:

Oh! My event propagation mechanism will be making it (in very primitive form) into Tigris 1.2, because there was an even more primitive event propagation mechanism called Plugins, which Jason wrote and which my mechanism obsoletes. We present... My Mechanism!

Sat Aug 18 2001 08:43:

You're leading the Digital Lifestyle^TM, and then you need to make a shopping list and there's no damn paper in the house.

Sat Aug 18 2001 11:16:

If you come to my house you can have all the strawberry shortcake you want (unless you want more than I have). I made a bunch. In fact, I made too much.

Sat Aug 18 2001 12:19:

Raph Levien helped me get my advogato password back, so after an delay of over a year, I've finally updated my advogato page. In my absence, my advogato certification was upgraded to Journeyer due to the efforts of coworkers who had not forgotten their advogato passwords.

Sat Aug 18 2001 13:27:

Raph mentioned in his email to me that he'd enjoyed Guess The Verb!, which inspired me to read through the source code again. There's a lot of stuff I'd forgotten about, including the fact that the cashier in the UCLA scenario and the bridge troll in the cave scenario have a long-distance relationship going.

Sat Aug 18 2001 15:14:

Sumana asks, "What Would Jeeves Do?"

News You Can Bruise for 2001 August 18