Archives June 2008

After work we went to the distillery district to see Uncle Vanya. It was enjoyable, though I found the motivations post-intermission were hard to empathize with... pre-intermission I was really identifying with the characters, they seemed human, dreaming of a better world, but trapped in the mire of the day-to-day.

We want to make the ...

Spent the day mostly on PyOpenGL.  Released a new beta3 of 3.0.0, mostly just a bug-fix release.  Also hacked up a test/demo of a vertex-buffer-object data-storage mechanism that seems to work quite elegantly.

I was intending to build a Celestial Jukebox... then I actually sat down and described it to Dave at the caffe.  He's ...

In other news, we went to Scotland a few weeks ago. I learned a number of things about Charles Rennie Mackintosh that were a bit surprising for me. For one thing, the thing that attracted me to his work, and I think largely contributes to his popularity is something that he was in the process ...

I'm trying to spend one day a week on Open Source projects again. Currently most of my time has been spent on PyOpenGL, but this week I'm thinking I'll spend some quality time with StarPy. A year or so ago one of the chaps at the PyGTA meeting mentioned that the CNIB has ...