Something Superb http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog A superb weblog. Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:43:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Kerbals In Space http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog/2011/07/17/kerbals-in-space/ http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog/2011/07/17/kerbals-in-space/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:43:47 +0000 kgrube http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog/?p=599 I’ve been playing around with Kerbal Space Program (in alpha, free to download) a bit over the last couple of days. I made a couple of videos because the game is so amazing.


This first video shows the evolution of a single rocket design through many iterations to one that is eventually successful.


I found an odd ship design when challenged to build a rocket out of only solid rocket boosters. The ship seems to dance like one of those flowers from the movie Fantasia.

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Click the button below to launch the application:




The application compares the four sorting algorithms, quick sort, heap sort, merge sort and insertion sort, by graphically displaying the data members of the tree as they get sorted. Here’s the source if you’re interested.

The data structure used to store the data members is a tree that implements the ArrayList functions add, set, get, isEmpty, and size. The tree stores nodes and the nodes store dots:
class Node {

private int n;
private Node parent;
private Node left;
private Node right;
private Dot dot;
...
}

class Dot {

int value;
...
}

Post any comments below.

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1024 x 600

CarmenSandiego

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After I put that on YouTube, I noticed in the recommended videos section (aka the section that leeches my soul) another video of a Little Caesars pizza sign holder:




And I was like, oh that’s pretty sweet. Then I saw this:

If there is one profession we need more of, it’s super awesome Little Caesar’s Sign Holder Guys.

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It’s looking like a Tuesday release on the Spy/Sniper updates.

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fack

Sorry for the bad quality of the screen cap, mspaint sucks at compressing GIFs.  Also what the hell is with the other three videos it recommended for me?

]]> http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog/2009/05/12/youtube-never-lets-me-down/feed/ 6 I Usually Don’t Get Excited About This Sort of Thing http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog/2009/05/10/i-usually-dont-get-excited-about-this-sort-of-thing/ http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog/2009/05/10/i-usually-dont-get-excited-about-this-sort-of-thing/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 18:25:09 +0000 kgrube http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog/?p=466 I usually don’t get excited over movie trailers… but the new trailer for Moon has me wishing June 12th would come sooner.  Sam Rockwell looks amazing, albeit from the trailer alone.  He was most notably and recently in Frost/Nixon and before that Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.   Apple has this to say about it:

It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Finally, he will leave the isolation of “Sarang,” the moon base that has been his home for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to beyond “Gerty,” the base’s well-intentioned, but rather uncomplicated computer.

It looks like a much needed diversion from modern sci-fi’s “pew pew” to a more restrained and psychological, an old throwback to the Arthur C. Clarke days.   Well, what are you waiting for? Go watch the trailer. Now.

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]]> http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog/2009/04/27/if-those-one-billion-iphone-apps-were-a-village-of-one-hundred/feed/ 2 Thoughts for The Thinking Man http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog/2009/04/12/thoughts-for-the-thinking-man/ http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog/2009/04/12/thoughts-for-the-thinking-man/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:59:25 +0000 Cutter http://somethingsuperb.com/weblog/?p=461 I worry when I only see a link to “advanced options” on a website, I may be jumping into something I’m not ready for.

I had the happiest childhood of anyone in the world.  Really.  I would get in trouble everyday for laughing uncontrollably at school.  Sadly, after years of harsh punishment I’ve spent most of my adult life being depressed…

My girlfriend’s wrong, I’m an extremely empathetic person.  I’m always dying to know what the fucking cat is getting into.

At my bank the drive through lane has a speed limit of 4mph.  I would love to meet the cop that’s going to write a ticket for 5mph.  But I’d settle for the guy who decided on that limit.

I saw a U-Haul van today.  On the side it proclaimed that they had the “Right Equipment-Lowest Prices.”  Now, does that mean if I, for some selfish reason, disobey this scripture and pay less somewhere else, I will just plain get the wrong equipment?

When your roommate accuses you of brainwashing, just be sad that you lost control of him.

Curiosity killed a cat.  I’m not sure who killed mine.

I like libraries and I like delis.  They’re the only two places that if I owe them money they actually ask me, “Would you like to pay for this now?”  Well, if I could just not pay for it at all that’d be nice.

My favorite time to write is from 11:30pm to 12:30am.  “I wrote for days!”  I exclaim.

My 12-pack of sprite was yelling at me today, “Same Great Taste!”  They would only yell for a few different reasons.

A.  Relieved that it actually worked out.

B.  Trying to intimidate.

And finally…

C.  A harmless joke.

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obamaIn response to the growing, inexplicable violence in these here United States, President Barack Obama has shifted his sights.  The evacuation/invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan has been evolved into what everyone has been asking for.  For the troops to come home.  But not for what most peace loving Americans here think.  President Obama has approved the need for military interference in America, based on the rapid increase in similarities between here and the Middle East.  The most obvious similarities have come in the form of our response to crisis  (an economy in shambles, a leader with wide support (forced, coerced or otherwise), high unemployment, major corruption and so on).  Death seems to be the solution people are choosing.  County battalions and convoys have already been scheduled and plotted, waiting for re-deployment (also coming home!)  I wouldn’t be surprised if the right to bear arms was lost and private property quartering of soldiers came back into stride.

It seems odd that in a time when most of the people in the U.S. don’t support the war, they choose to live in one at home.

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