http://www.robterrell.com sneeze ack sneeze rob terrell ack cough cough ack Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:57:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let's avoid back-to-back Halloween postings (which means, I left this blog unattended for a year) with a little technical update on TubeSock. (To cut to the chase and download the latest TubeSock, click here.) Almost immediately upon releasing TubeSock 3.0 beta 17 on Friday, I received reports of its total and ... http://www.robterrell.com/archives/44 This year we're working through a Wizard of Oz obsession. Well, except for Paden, who was a forest fairy. And Marshall, who was a skunk. Okay, we're only 50% obsessed with the Wizard of Oz, but it feels like so much more. Click to see larger: http://www.robterrell.com/archives/28 Hey, the iPhone takes some decent pictures after all!Jason and Sally were kind enough to give him boots, but by the time they arrived, his feet were too big for them. But they fit on his hands nicely.I'm not sure which one will be the troublemaker. Probably all three.Honestly, he ... http://www.robterrell.com/archives/24 Robert Marshall Terrell V. Born May 10, 2007. 8 pounds, 13 ounces, 22 inches long. Edit: By request, a picture of Marshal with his daddy: Just to be clear, I'm not quite egotistical enough to name him after myself. Michell picked the name. He's named after his great-grandfather, Robert Marshall ... http://www.robterrell.com/archives/23 Meet Marshall. Born at 3:11 pm on 5/10/07. 8 pounds, 13 ounces. 22 inches long. More pics to come! http://www.robterrell.com/archives/22 It's 11:11 am, we've been at the hospital for almost four hours. Michelle's water has broken, so the baby is definitely coming today! http://www.robterrell.com/archives/20  Meet Marshall. Estimated date of arrival: May 12. Estimated weight: 10 pounds. Estimated SAT score: 1600.     http://www.robterrell.com/archives/19 For the doubters, I have put together a binary OSX-only release of the Torque Game Engine with the Wii remote control code. I'm hoping a few people will give it a try. Let me know in the comments if you find any bugs. Download .zip here (45 MB) It's a (mostly stock) ... http://www.robterrell.com/archives/16 Download this app. Launch it. Press the red "sync" button on your Wii Remote. Then: (a) hold remote in hand, like a dork pretending to hold a lightsaber. (b) swing it around, like a dork pretending to be a Jedi. Get yer geek on, fanboys! I took the saber rendering code a a ... http://www.robterrell.com/archives/15 Status of my project to integrate the Wii remote with the Mac OSX Torque game engine: done! Sunday night I got everything working. With the homemade sensor bar over the monitor, the IR code added to the game engine, and some decent AI opponents added to the game, it was ... http://www.robterrell.com/archives/14 After a quick Radio Shack run, ostensibly for another X-10 for the Xmas tree (ack, they don't carry them any more), I also picked up a bag of supplies to make a Wii sensor bar. I wasn't exactly sure what I would need, so I grabbed a bunch of things. Here's ... http://www.robterrell.com/archives/13