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[dr_tectonic]

Today's lessons:

GridBagLayout is a gigantic pile of suck, but if you're doing something simple with it, it's bearable.

Proce55ing has gone beta! Old code breaks, but the new stuff is better.

Chrononauts is a fun game, and I seem to have special birthday game-winning luck.

Karen's white cake with whipped cream and raspberry sauce is really, really good.

Comments

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

I have a student who wants to do similar things from juggling patterns, and I've suggested to him that square dancing is an obvious similar area he should learn about...

(Years ago, back when dr_tectonic and I were at MIT, I danced with Tech Squares, but I haven't since moving to Ontario in 2001; there is a gay square dance group in Toronto, but that's a little far for me...)

My sense, from what I know about this area, is that it'd be a decently hard thing to do; Ian got reasonably far on prototyping the juggling thing, but doing the proper interface into the language of the existing juggling programs is hard, which is probably true as well for whatever is the standard for square dancing these days (when I did it, 10 yrs ago, it was Steven Gildea's program "sd").

On the other hand, for both of them, it'd be really cool.

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

It would be cool. I have heard the number of variables gets out of hand quickly, but I can't help but think it is doable. I suspect the learning curve will be straight up though!