Well, at least I manage to get first post on my own blog! Of course, being a first post, this is pretty much going to be a meta post.

Some of the Stuff I might blog about may include bad movies (and I mean real stinkers: try Manos: The Hands of Fate). Not something I know a great deal about, but I’ve seen a few now and wanted to put a few thoughts together on each one and rate them.

I’ve also been thinking for a while about Programming a (simple) Rocket Sim, until I realised just how hard it will be. This was looking like being even more of a washout then most of my other hobby programming projects (which usually peter out after the fun stuff is done) – it hasn’t seen any code or even realistic design yet. However, I did stumble across some good material from Chris Hecker on rigid body dynamics which was not only well enough written to be vaguely understandable to someone like me who left maths and physics behind aged 18 (though with a wish that I could have been better at it), it offered a possible to path to getting to some kind of rocket sim via a much simpler 2D block sim (maybe a bit like one I saw for the Wii at New Year).

Anyhoo, maybe bringing my thoughts together on this will help me translate some ideas into code and help me persevere through the maths.