FM transmitters on the same frequency clash and quite often SWAP the audio in 2 cars.
My favorite thing is to leave my FM transmitter on my phone at the default frequency of 88.1 and play crazy zombie music while I drive around.
I listen for audio clashes and look around for the person who is totally confused as to why their iPod has become possessed.
Even better is when you can hear their songs and they start to rapidly change as they frantically try to fix it.
This year my friends… this year… “Mutambo” will be heard.
The company I work for just fired half of our engineers. I resigned a few weeks ago and was content to work out the remainder of my contract, but this has really angered me.
Well, I resigned from my job last friday to focus full time on Twisted Pair.
The way I see it, if I fail at getting this off the ground, I can just consider the time spent as a big holiday with my family. So either way, everyone wins… apart from my bank account =P.
I’m taking some time to relax but will pick up development after my last day (three weeks from now). I’ve been thinking a lot about Shock and I’ve solved a number of things in my head so it will be full steam ahead once development starts. I’m really looking forward to seeing some milestones.
I’ve been considering working full-time on our projects. It’s a scary prospect of having financial commitments, a family, but zero income. At the same time, it’s incredibly liberating. I’m already so over the corporate lifestyle (of which there isn’t one). I’ve never enjoyed working for other people, corporations are so dysfunctional and in-efficient it just makes me want to scream.
I have enough good ideas of my own that I should be able to make it, but getting a start is hard when you don’t have a big parachute of money to keep you safe.
Twisted Pair is alive and well. Work has been continuing despite the lack of updates.
After much flip-flopping with game ideas, we have finally settled on our next game and are incredibly excited about the possibility this will bring (thats not corporate speak… I’m actually fricking excited!).
At the moment I’m concentrating on foundation work and creating my concurrency model. Once this is done things will progress much more quickly.
I have to say, threading is the most interesting and rewarding part of programming. Working on a purely logical level is what most programmers desire, and concurrency issues are pure logic. That being said, concurrency is evil and a good programmer will limit the interactions between threads to a minimal. However, as always each project requires its own approach due to the requirements and limitations of each.
Progress has been slow recently due to a few extreme events in my personal life. I’ve recently come back to working on the project even though things in my life are far from resolved =/.
The more time I spend away from coding, the more I realise the following is true.
“After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.”
Truly, this is the Tao of Programming.
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