Archives for April 2001

(Friday) North Muskegon 13, Ravenna 6

April 29, 2001 by Eric Richardson

After starting off slow, we opened up on Ravenna and kept it from really being a contest. I went 2-4 with several RBIs, two of which came on a check swing single that managed to just skirt by the first baseman. I also stole third base three times, and came to the realization that if I'm going to keep that up, I really need to start wearing long sleeves. As it is, my arms bear the scars of my efforts. The win keeps our conference unbeaten streak alive, bringing our overall record (counting the Ruffer loss I'm not even going to mention) to 5-1 (4-0 conference).

Game 2: North Muskegon 5, Shelby 5

April 24, 2001 by Eric Richardson

We started out by giving them four runs that probably shouldn't have been scored (I'm not sure how many were actually unearned), and then had to fight back. We scored one in the top of the seventh to go up 5-4, but then gave up one run in the bottom of the inning. The game was then called on account of darkness, and will be finished only if it matters to the conference race. I went 3-4 with three singles.

Game 1: North Muskegon 9, Shelby 4

April 24, 2001 by Eric Richardson

We jumped out to an early lead, but couldn't quite finish the job without going the full seven innings. I did nothing spectacular, going 1-4 as a DH with a single and a run scored. (5-0, 3-0 conference)

more bar graphs

April 23, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I've now completed evolving my bar graph code into a Perl module that works generically for any data. Witness two example outputs: test3 and test4.

North Muskegon 7, Oakridge 6

April 21, 2001 by Eric Richardson

Despite playing pretty much our worst baseball of the year, we beat Oakridge at home to keep our undefeated streak alive (4-0, 2-0 conference). I was 2-3 with two singles and three RBIs. I also scored twice. Next Tuesday now becomes huge, as we take on Shelby in a home doubleheader.

gar

April 19, 2001 by Eric Richardson

One sure sign you're doing things the hard way: You're doing your page numbering by manually inserting the LaTeX codes into your paper with vi.

Sometimes I wonder about me... I do really like LyX, though... I just wish it did a couple more things for you.

North Muskegon 9, Spring Lake 8

April 18, 2001 by Eric Richardson

It was a thriller in North Muskegon as the Norsemen rallied back from an 8-0 deficit to win in 8 innings. I went 2-3, with two singles, an RBI or two (I can't remember which), and a walk. For those of you keeping track at home, that keeps the Norsemen undefeated with a 3-0 record (1-0 conference) going into Friday's home game against Oakridge.

North Muskegon 9, Whitehall 5

April 17, 2001 by Eric Richardson

Second baseball game today (we got cancelled yesterday on account of cold, and last Wed. on account of snow). This time we hit the ground with pretty much all cylinders firing. I DH'ed and went 1 for 3 with a double, a sac bunt, and a walk. I also got thrown out at second because of a second baseman who decided to cover up the bag well before he had the ball. He now has a ripped sock, ripped spandex, and a nice little cut on his leg to show for it. My cleat is doing just fine.

Redhat 7.1

April 17, 2001 by Eric Richardson

Today I installed Redhat 7.1 on NMPS's web server. I was really impressed by how smooth the installation process has become. With how rarely I actually do new installations (my machine is a thoroughly hacked up 5.1, i think), it's fun to see how that part of things is moving along. I was also very pleased to see stuff like OpenSSH and sudo in the main distribution now, as well as ipchains configuration during the installation process.

that college thing...

April 17, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So last weekend I visited Biola and USC. Both visits were very cool, but the end result is that I'm strongly leaning towards USC. The campus was great and the school of communications is one of the best in the world.

I'll probably write more about what I liked later...

need sleep...

April 11, 2001 by Eric Richardson

In three and a half hours I leave for Los Angeles for two days. I have not yet packed or slept. At this point I think it's safe to say I'm running behind schedule.

more bar graphs

April 11, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So the bar graph stuff is still coming along nicely. You can see a sample output here. Now if I could just figure out how to figure out how to compute the intervals for the y-axis...

Imlib2_Perl

April 11, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I'm very proud of myself. Click for the story...

sentient dadadodo

April 11, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I just went to the root page of this site and found the following gem:

I hate school; and I'm a computer, writing code.

Some might agree...

more camera stuff

April 9, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So today I adapted my old camera.jpg stuff to make a server-side script to use with geCam and put it online. Click on live to see pictures, albeit not live. Right now they update when I click the button.

geCam

April 8, 2001 by Eric Richardson

Tonight I had the urge to break my GTK skills out, so I decided to take a break from eThreads and write something interesting. I ended up with geCam, a Perl/GTK webcam client. I plan on bringing back a new incarnation of the webcam soon, and geCam will power it. It's powered by Gtk-Perl and Imlib2_Perl, for those of you who care. Next comes superimposing captions onto the image. Imlib2 should make that easy, though.

PCI fun

April 8, 2001 by Eric Richardson

If you go to plug something into the back of a PCI card that's not screwed into your machine, and that card happens to come out of its PCI slot, don't try to put it back in with the computer on. Computers don't like that.

DNA Lounge

April 8, 2001 by Eric Richardson

As you've probably noticed, I'm pretty much always in awe of jwz. Currently, jwz's big thing is the DNA Lounge, a nightclub he bought after leaving Netscape. Throughout the oft-extended reconstruction, jwz's "backstage logs" have been a fascinating look into all that goes on in reconstructing a nightclub in SF. For a programmer, jwz is really good at explaining a very wide range of subjects from sound equipment to plumbing and bathroom fixtures. Definitely a worthwhile read.

C64

April 8, 2001 by Eric Richardson

This afternoon I was sitting here at the computer, bored as usual, so I decided to fire up VICE. I've proceeded to spend most of the rest of the afternoon on old C64 games I found at LEMON. My first forays into computing were right here playing Summer Olympics.

Now if only I could find a copy of GEOS for the C128 and remember how to get into adventure under C/PM, my nostalgia trip would be complete.