Changes:

• Learned about configuring HHVM vs PHP-FPM. Pretty exciting. HHVM is neat (and fast), but has some glaring features missing (notably the ‘yield’ featured in PHP).

Bugs & Problems:

• My math is a bit rusty, particularly probabilities.

Changes & Updates:

• Finished the DLC for Dishonored. Played the regular campaign on 100% pacifist/stealth, played the DLC on 100% violence/chaos. Nice to knock it off the backlog.
• Finished the Captain Scarlett DLC for Borderlands 2. Getting pretty close to being able to uninstall.
• Played through Burial at Sea Episode 1 (DLC for Bioshock: Infinite). Just leaves Episode 2.
• Doing more Numenera prep this weekend. SketchUp has been very helpful for visualization. Numenera is becoming my StupidRPG concept testbed.
• Assembled two puzzles. One involves time travel (altering the present state of a room to allow access to a door in the future), the other involves a teleporting elevator with some very slightly mathy controls.
• Put together both puzzles in SketchUp, along with some other Numenera stuff.

Bugs & Problems:

• RIP monitor.

Changes:

• Assembled two puzzles. One involves time travel (altering the present state of a room to allow access to a door in the future), the other involves a teleporting elevator with some very slightly mathy controls.
• Put together both puzzles in SketchUp, along with some other Numenera stuff.

Bugs & Problems:

• Nothing new

Changes:

• Finished the Dishonored DLC and uninstalled. Nice to knock one off the backlog.
• Played through Burial at Sea Episode 1 (DLC for Bioshock: Infinite). Just leaves Episode 2.
• Doing more Numenera prep this weekend. SketchUp has been very helpful for visualization. Numenera is becoming my StupidRPG concept testbed.

Bugs & Problems:

• Gave up on fixing the monitor. Most likely cause is bad capacitors and I don’t have a soldering iron and/or the inclination to learn how to use one right now. Will be happy with 2 monitors for now and revisit when I build my next PC.

Changes:

• About halfway through the DLC for Dishonored. Played the regular campaign on 100% pacifist/stealth, playing the DLC on 100% violence/chaos.
• Finished the Captain Scarlett DLC for Borderlands 2. Getting pretty close to being able to uninstall.

Bugs & Problems:

• One of my monitors is misbehaving. First monitor I bought in college, so I’ve had it for close to 10 years. Very sad.

Today I’m thankful for a day off, and the company of my spouse and friends.

• Turkey
• Taters
• Pie
• Mac+Cheese Casserole
• Stuffing (I’m told it’s called Dressing if it isn’t inside a turkey)
• Beer

As part of my goal to get back to CS fundamentals, today I learned about red-black trees, a type of binary search tree with some interesting self-balancing properties. Need to do some more reading on BSTs, B-trees and red-black trees.

Changes & Updates:

• Messing with some Lorebook ideas
• Started learning SketchUp (not directly SRPG-related)

Bugs & Problems:

• Nothing new

I’m trying out SketchUp for D&D/Numenera mapping. Having a good time so far, makes me wish I had a 3D printer.