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Aran was doing this a while back and sucked me into it, but I had only a short time before work hit me hard and I had to set it aside; I think I've only done five problems. I would like to get back to it, but I already burned up my entire weekend learning to send and receive stuff over the internet with fastcgi and libcurl and tinkering with some template metaprogramming stuff.

The most recent dish I prepared is known to the family as 'favorite casserole'. Legend has it that the base recipe became known to us through a newspaper sometime in the early 20th century. It's filling, really simple, and refrigerates well, all of which make it well suited to a lazy grad student who only wants to cook significantly once a week or so. 1 pound ground hamburger 1 can tomato sauce 1 can peas 1/2 pound small shell macaroni 1/2 pound shredded cheddar cheese Grease the casserole dish. (I use a 2.3 Liter dish that's a little over 9 cm deep.) Brown the hamburger in a large skillet. Drain it, and then put it in the bottom of the casserole dish, spread into a uniform layer. Boil the macaroni. I'll assume you know how this goes. While the pasta is boiling: Add some seasoning to the meat. I usually use 'Cavender's All Purpose Greek Seasoning', but someone with more of a culinary clue could make more deliberate choices here. You could also add some dried onion here, but I never bother. Put about half of the tomato sauce onto the meat, reasonably evenly. (You could pour it, but I usually use a large spoon.) Drain the peas, then add them as another layer, then add about half the cheese, again spread evenly. When the macaroni is ready, drain it and add it to the casserole dish as well. (If the quantities are right it should now be about full.) Finally, distribute the remaining cheese on top. Finally, heat the casserole through. About five minutes in a microwave oven will suffice, or a conventional oven could be used. (The goal is just to melt the cheese and give the dish a uniform temperature.) This makes 5-6 servings. -------- Andraste's pizza muffins intrigue me. This may bear investigation, although I've never attempted making a yeast-based bread by myself (only things like cakes and pancakes which use solely chemical leavening).

Originally Posted By: Sylae So yeah, I got accepted into college. Which is pretty significant to me; I finally feel like I'm actually doing something with my life and it's going somewhere. It's been heading that way for awhile, but this really made that obvious to me. Congratulations! Originally Posted By: Sylae While college will be awesome, I'm worried about dealing with the [censored] of paperwork that seems to drift everywhere. And finding a way to make money spontaneously appear in front of me. And about a million other things that randomly pop up into my head. I wouldn't worry overly much about paperwork. I only recall having to fill out a small number of forms in my time as an undergrad, and none of them involved any special difficulty. Your mileage may very well vary, but I found that the coursework was a far bigger concern. Originally Posted By: Sylae My goal is to get a doctorate in computer science (because, you know, that'll be useful), maybe picking up some spare bachelor's if they only take a few more credits to get. Obviously that'll put me in a big hole debt-wise, but I'm hoping to offset that with as much free money as possible. Surprisingly enough, my parents aren't going to help with that, for reasons that can be discussed at some other time, ere I become angry and resentful. That's a fine goal. Getting a job is a non-trivial concern in any specialized field, I imagine, but as a person whose work depends strongly on computation I'm keenly aware of how much the work of computer scientists can help the rest of us. I, at least, believe that advanced CS work is pretty darn useful. With regard to debt, it may not be too bad. I went to a moderately expensive private school for my bachelor's degree, and while my parents helped me out hugely by paying most of the bills, I took on some student loans as well. After three or so years as a grad student and saving up, I think that my net worth is actually positive again. (Although I haven't yet had to pay any of the loans back, since they're government ones which only start accumulating interest after I leave school. If you have to get loans, these are the nicest ones to get, to my knowledge.) Originally Posted By: lillith find a part-time job even if you don't really need the money (although it sounds like you will). having a work history and being able to demonstrate that you can show up on time and follow instructions looks good to employers Along these lines, if you plan to go to grad school, having research experience helps a lot. So, after a year or two of undergraduate studies (once you have some book learning under your belt) it's a very good idea to look to join a research group, at least over the summers. This has the benefits that you can usually either get paid or get credit and you accumulate real experience. (Stereotypically, undergrads are supposed to get the most menial and unimportant jobs, but this isn't entirely true. While you're unlikely to be entrusted, at least at first, with anything vital that has a real deadline, you may well get to do a serious project that the group will incorporate into its other work.)

Besides, unless they also had some idea who you were or your account names they would have no idea which of their vast database of passwords to use where. This would leave them the problem of needing to brute-force the username, as well as which password to pair with it, not knowing for certain whether the system being tested is even one for which they have any valid passwords.

If you don't have a website of your own The Blades Forge is a good place to host your scenarios.

As best I can tell, the only thing which does not offend the Westborough Baptists is themselves. They appear to consider everyone one else an enemy. This makes it very easy for them to get publicity, although it isn't clear to me what they actually need or want the publicity for.

As noted before, the method is almost independent of the browser. (If image manipulation commands are approximately conserved, there must be some sort of symmetry present. . . )

I use the left shift key most of the time, but for several symbols on the right side of the keyboard (_+{}:"|?<>) (where where the parentheses of the previous parenthetical expression are themselves part its content) I use the right shift key. Since I spend a large fraction of my time at work writing C or C++ code I end up using several of those symbols a lot.

You just use cloud of blades. A good crossbow helps a lot, though.

There are no damage caps in BoA, so that aspect is irrelevant. As I recall the melee damage caps were 99 in A2 and 199 in A3.

I tend to be rather picky about music, and so I rarely have a use for whole albums. Here are a few that at least come close to Dinti's criteria: Mannheim Steamroller - Fresh Aire (1975 - U.S.) Mannheim Steamroller - Fresh Aire II (1977 - U.S.) Mannheim Steamroller - Fresh Aire III (1979 - U.S.) Mannheim Steamroller - Fresh Aire V (1983 - U.S.) Ayreon - 01011001 (2008 - Netherlands) Homestuck - Homestuck Volume 5 (2010 - Internet (that's a country, right?)) Sabaton - Coat of Arms (2010 - Sweden) This ends up being a rather distorted picture of what I listen to, however, as no entire album from Nightwish, Dark Moor, Steeleye Span, or Blackmore's Night appears on the list, and classical pieces aren't usefully described by albums either. I'm too tired at the moment to make a more thorough examination of the break down of my music by country of origin, but I'll likely see about it in the morning instead of doing something more important.

Originally Posted By: BainIhrno Newcomers include: Waterweb, Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Melliput Mobsters. The Sorcerer's Apprentice should be a general entry, not a newcomer; I've participated in at least one annual contest before, I think.

There are some things on the Blades Forge, although it isn't a huge selection (and some of them may actually be copyrighted, it looks like). You can also search Wikimedia Commons which has a lot of things that can probably be used with proper attribution in your Readme or Credits file.

The fifth should be Motrax, who doesn't travel to the surface because he is extremely old. (If I'm remembering correctly Motrax is elderly in A2/E2, doesn't appear in A3/E3, and has died of old age by A4. Also I'm guessing about the Exile games, since I've only played the Avernum versions.)

Oops, that would have been a mistake on my part. I blame it on the arbitrarily assigned integers that all look alike.

Originally Posted By: Nikki I can vouch for the Windows 3D editor crashing (and trashing scenarios) when the user attempts to change the size of the outdoors. Does it still do this? If so we need to add fixing that to our ToDo list.

That's been there since before I started working on it.

While researching some other points I came across this nice illustration of why eyewitnesses would have had difficulty making out windows on planes speeding past: Two of the planes involved (one at the WTC and the one at the pentagon) belonged to American Airlines, which paints a dark blue stripe on the side of the plane at the height of the windows. Oh, and the plane is also gray. Also, how much wreckage do you expect from a passenger jet? They're basically aluminum bubbles with a thin skin and only minimal structure, since piling on a lot of metal is a good way to make your plane too heavy to fly, and they want to fill the inside with passengers and baggage. Also aluminum can be burned, so a good deal of it will be rendered unrecognizable if you dowse it in jet fuel and set the whole thing on fire.

There is a universal version of BoA, however; at least the copy I have labeled v1.2.1 (which is conflictingly also labeled v1.1) is: Code: $ lipo -info Blades\ of\ Avernum\ Release Architectures in the fat file: Blades of Avernum Release are: ppc i386

We're working (well, The Turtle Moves did most of the work, and I've mostly been a source of delay) on newer and more up-to-date documentation, but if you download the official SW editor you get the documentation files as well. One of the appendices lists all of the available scenario graphics. On Mac OS, these are in the file 'Scen Icon Graphics' in the 'Blades of Avernum Files' directory. EDIT: To elaborate: Work on the editor has far outstripped work on the documentation, so there is no existing documentation about how it currently works. It's all based on the original editor, and nothing has been removed, so the old documentation isn't completely useless. Hopefully the tooltips in the new Mac version also make it less difficult to locate things that aren't in the same places as in the original. EDIT 2: There's also a nice tutorial that Dinti started writing.

It sounds like it is a fairly extreme aspect ratio, assuming the 1920 by 1080 you cite above is the native resolution. This may be causing the game problems when it tries to figure out how to scale itself. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any way to address this. Something you might try is using an external monitor with a more traditional aspect ratio instead of the laptop's built-in screen. If that works then you know the issue is with the game adapting to the monitor settings, and would additionally give you a way to play the game with the whole interface, although at the cost of a bit of hassle.

Originally Posted By: Slartucker But if there are ready-to-use, compiled versions even of CBoE available, I've never heard of them nor seen them. Does somebody have a link? I didn't post a link, but I did describe where to find them in response to one of your posts yesterday. Here's a link form of the same thing. There are somethings that could be improved, as Tyranicus noted in that other thread, and maybe we can rework the BoE Forum header to make them easier to locate from there.

Ah, my mistake; I don't know what different letters prepended onto BoE mean. Capital letters retracted.

THESE ARE IN FACT ALREADY AVAILABLE. They could be better advertised, however. We will need Celtic Minstrel to deal with some aspects of this. Your analysis of Jeff's considerations seems cogent; we'll have to keep this in mind.

Originally Posted By: Duck Was it possible to place moving mirrors from the editor before? That was added in the previous version; it was Ishad Nha who figured out how to do it.