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robotech_masterI was just puttering around with livejournal stuff, reading my friends list which I hadn't done in a while, then I went to the NY Times tech section, when I came across
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I was just puttering around with livejournal stuff, reading my friends list which I hadn't done in a while, then I went to the NY Times tech section, when I came across <a href-"http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/technology/circuits/05BLOG.html">this article</a> (registration required, blah blah blah). Odd coincidence, eh what?
For the last week or so, I haven't really been feeling all that great. It's hard to get going when you're depressed, you know? And boy, am I ever. No job prospects in sight. I keep slinging applications around...but what retail place wants to hire someone with two college degrees, who'll leave at the first "real" job he gets? And where can I get a "real" job in this employer's market? It's really painful to me to be unemployed and have to depend on my parents to pay my rent and things, because I know they don't have that much money to begin with.
Picked up some more job applications to fill out. Have to do that soon and turn them in. Sigh.
I discovered an interesting computer game last week...proof positive that games don't have to be super-fancy-flashy-uber-polygon-tech in order to be addictive. It's called <a href="http://www.megamek.com">Megamek.NET</a>, and it's very simple—a chat client and campaign wrapper around <a href="http://megamek.sourceforge.net">a BattleTech 3025 combat simulator</a>. The whole kit and kaboodle is written in Java, so it'll run on any platform with a Java interpreter, and it's open-source, so it's being improved more and more every day. I wasn't much interested in BT when my brothers were playing it in real life, because it was so complex and I was never any good at it. But MegaMek makes it easy!
For the last week or so, I haven't really been feeling all that great. It's hard to get going when you're depressed, you know? And boy, am I ever. No job prospects in sight. I keep slinging applications around...but what retail place wants to hire someone with two college degrees, who'll leave at the first "real" job he gets? And where can I get a "real" job in this employer's market? It's really painful to me to be unemployed and have to depend on my parents to pay my rent and things, because I know they don't have that much money to begin with.
Picked up some more job applications to fill out. Have to do that soon and turn them in. Sigh.
I discovered an interesting computer game last week...proof positive that games don't have to be super-fancy-flashy-uber-polygon-tech in order to be addictive. It's called <a href="http://www.megamek.com">Megamek.NET</a>, and it's very simple—a chat client and campaign wrapper around <a href="http://megamek.sourceforge.net">a BattleTech 3025 combat simulator</a>. The whole kit and kaboodle is written in Java, so it'll run on any platform with a Java interpreter, and it's open-source, so it's being improved more and more every day. I wasn't much interested in BT when my brothers were playing it in real life, because it was so complex and I was never any good at it. But MegaMek makes it easy!