Tears

The summer is way too short for what I want to archieve, I'll post my TODO list here and hope not to drop tears over it after the summer:

• Website design, using the browser as a canvas to display content. Forget the terms header, container and footer. Archieved 50%
  
• Game development, especially 3D! Archieved 50%
  
• Assembly! Archieved Archieved 10%
• Algorithms, more algorithms... Archieved 100%

Shit.

House MD

Yes I have seen every single House MD episode to day. Many of them twice. And I still find most of House's jokes funny. And yes, Hugh Laurie is an awesome actor. I can't wait for the 7th Season!

Somehow, writting the above lines made me feel like a looser. And that's strange cause I'm not a looser.

Aside from that, I think that every other TV Series sucks. AM I RIGHT OR AM I RIGHT? (See? House is affecting me. And I hate that.)

Flash games and astrophysics

[Note: 1 chewing gum = 0.10 USD]

Recently I became addicted to Them (=flash games). And I decided to make one. And I did. And it sucks: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/548011
As you would have noticed if you clicked the link above, my game has annoying 30-second interactive advertisments you can't skip and obviously I make money from them. (It's called mochiads, check it out) Right now, 3 weeks after releasing the game I have made 4.5 chewing gums. (I need to make 1000 chewing gums to receive my first paycheck :( ). The game might suck, but I promise, I am NOT going to add mochiads to my next game. It's not worth it.  1,145 people got bored to death waiting for the game to start and I can't even enjoy my chewing gums...

Anywany, I am working on my next game, yes, this one will be awesome.

Other than that? I am wasting my time with that "school" thing again, where those funny faces called "teachers" try to make ancient greek sound interesting. They're not trying hard enough.

I also started studying Astrophysics lately, thanx to the Orbiter community and Orbiter itself, of course! I wish Orbiter was open-source... Ah, at least it is free! Anyway, if anyone is reading and is interested, check out the Orbiter Simulator, and the following link:
http://www.braeunig.us/space/orbmech.htm#maneuver

Yesterday I fired up Orbiter, entered low-earth Orbit, took the Semi-Major axis and I calculated my period of revolution! Of course my result did not mach the number on the simulator screen, I was 8 seconds off! Real p was 5312, my result was 5320. That was propably because I conveniently assumed that earth had a constant radius everywhere.

That's all folks. Oh, and here's something to keep you entertained for the next 129 seconds.

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Not all posts have to be useful.

I can't think of a title...

...because I don't have anything specific to write about. I just came back from the one-week long educational informatics camp. And now I am studying algorithms again. Hellenico (a greek edition of the usaco training site), usaco and many other sites have very intresting problems, worth reseatching and solving.


Informatics, algorithms, programing, networking and the computer in general, what a great thing to spend time with! Just wanted to say this.


-break-

Pah I better stop writing here, and start writing some code. :P

I'm still alive!

What did you think? The blogger hiding inside me needed some rest, he has his inactive periods too!

And as always I do not have a specific reason for posting. People don't change, not in a month anyway. So what was I doing during the last month?

• Game developing! Space Wars is progressing slowly, but *it is progressing*. I made my first steps into 3D programing, something I always wanted to do! I started with some basic 3D math, then a few lines of OpenGL.
• C#! I don't have much experience with it and the .NET framework yet, but I like focusing on the big picture. I have to admit though, I kinda miss messing with pointers. Nothing is as intresting as examining memory leaks and segmentation faults. (No, I'm not a mazochist)
• Assembly! Another great language, (Ok, I might be a mazochist) I would like to start my own OS sometime. (ok, I already have started my own OS, the only problem is it doesn't work. :P). I've been studying CPU architectures for the last 2 weeks.
• Game Engine Research, there are so many of them out there... Until now, I have tried UDK, Torque, irrlicht (yeah, it's not a game engine but a 3D rendering engine), C4, Ogre (kk, that's not a game engine either), and I decided to stick with irrlicht! Completly free and open source, object-oriented and well organized, simple and yet it has enought features for me. I still have to look for a sound and physics library
•  School exams. I did especially well on maths, physics and history. All my results are satisfying ;)
• More php and curl!
• Algorithms and programing techinques: Dynamic Programing, divide + conquer, dijkstra's algorithm etc. I love those, I am especially proud of my Graph Class implementation.

That's all I think. The summer is way too short for what I want to archieve, I'll post my TODO list here and hope not to drop tears over it after the summer:

• Website design, using the browser as a canvas to display content. Forget the terms header, container and footer.
• Game development, especially 3D!
• Assembly!
• Algorithms, more algorithms...

Flight Simming

Yes I am a simmer! I have around 80 logged hours on IVAO, around a thousand on FSX. To be exact I used to be a simmer who just started flying again. I did some VFR flights last week, and I will be logging in to IVAO again soon. I fly mostly boeing jets, 737-747-757-767. My favorites are the PMDG 747-400 and the Captain Sim 767. I started the Hellenic IFR tour: "Fly the heavies" 6 months ago, I did 3 legs and I'll be doing the next one soon.

I also started flying miltary helicopters, with the AMAZING DCS: Black Shark I bought lately. The Ka-50 is the only single-pilot attack helicopter and a truly spectacular aircraft! It wasn't easy to learn how to fly it, you have to play with the trimmer and the autopilot a lot, but finaly I did it! I can even shoot things now.

And now the joke of the day: I am a student in his exam period. Nope I haven't studied more than an hour till now!

Fasten your seatbells, Speedbird 255, over n' out.