This week I think I've met my geek quota a little early, so hopefully I can just cruise the rest of the week. I'm always pleasantly surprised by the amount of geekery that goes on in Columbus on a random week.

Tuesday was the monthly meetup for the ...

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A coworker writes me saying:

Please take a moment to vote for Barbie to become a Computer Engineer. Future generations of computer engineers would really appreciate it if we could influence some girls to take up the profession.

So indeed, I did vote, and so should you....or else! From ...

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Ran into a nice solution for copying arbitrary MovieClips at runtime today. I am designing a spot the difference game akin to 6 Differences with the requirement that, upon finding a difference, the scene should go to the "correct" state depending on which difference was defined as master, among a ...

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The minigame I've been working on at my day job has been released, play "Don't Get Shot" free at Kongregate. This minigame is released in support of the release of the first issue of Exile.

The game is a reversal on the popular top down shmup genre, in ...

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Ran into this bit of genius code in the python mailing list. Here's the code for now and I'll explain it later:

def forname(modname, classname):
    ''' Returns a class of "classname" from module "modname". '''
    module = __import__(modname)
    classobj = getattr(module, classname)
    return classobj

Basically it returns a class ...

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