To my loyal fan, who’s out there… somewhere.. Sorry I haven’t posted in ten days. I’ve been busy with school, plus I’ve been a bit under the weather (that’s sick, for those who don’t know there idioms).

Of course, I’ve had time to play my video games In addition to Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook I’ve been playing DeathSpank on the PS3:

It’s a fun little game (was a DLC) that’s put together quite well by the same mind as Monkey Island, Ron Gilbert. The main point of this game is to save some orphans from the King of the realm, Lord Von Prong. It is a silly game with a lot on in-jokes. You’ll probably laugh at the silliness a lot (even after you’re “Felt by Freen.")

Anyways, pick it up and enjoy it. It’s available as a DLC for PS3, I think so too for Xbox, and for Windows.

There’s a second part too, which I haven’t played yet. It’s supposed to be more “modern,” that is, with guns and other “high tech” weapons. I’ll be checking it out once I beat this one.

(links:
DeathSpank (wikipedia)
Ron Gilber’s webpage
)

Until next time

Joe

So I’ve been playing this game on facebook, and thought I might post a screen shot of it in action. Then I thought, I could 1-up that and play a video! So here it is:

To get high scores you need to move fast (there’s a bonus for fast speed) and get multipliers. You get it to drop multipliers by getting a certain amount of gems in one move.

Until next time

Joe

Robot cars, that is. Google has had its robotic cars travel over 140k miles. For safety, of course, they have an actual driver in the car in case the car doesn’t react correctly.

Check out this pic for some info:

From the Official Google Blog:

Larry and Sergey founded Google because they wanted to help solve really big problems using technology. And one of the big problems we’re working on today is car safety and efficiency. Our goal is to help prevent traffic accidents, free up people’s time and reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use.

So we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves. Our automated cars, manned by trained operators, just drove from our Mountain View campus to our Santa Monica office and on to Hollywood Boulevard. They’ve driven down Lombard Street, crossed the Golden Gate bridge, navigated the Pacific Coast Highway, and even made it all the way around Lake Tahoe. All in all, our self-driving cars have logged over 140,000 miles. We think this is a first in robotics research.

Until next time

Joe

When I was a kid, my parents would send me to church camp almost every day. At the camp we did typical campy-type stuff like singing around campfires or listen to stories. Of course, being a church camp, these songs and stories were often biblical and faith-based.

One particular story I remember involved a die-hard Christian stranded in his house in the middle of a huge flood (not Noah’s flood, more like Katrina flood). The characters in this story are the Christian, car driver, boater, and helicopter pilot. The dialog went like this:

Christian: (Praying) Lord, I’ve been faithful to you my whole life. Please rescue me!

Driver: (knocks on door) Hey! The place is flooding! Let’s go!

Christian: Go on without me! I will trust in the Lord to rescue me!

Later, the streets are completely flooded. The boater stops by:

Boater: C’mon! We have to go! There’s no other way out!

Christian: Go on without me! I will trust in the Lord to rescue me!

Later, the Christian is on his roof, the only place left that not under water. A helicopter flies by.

Pilot: C’mon! There’s no way to survive, let’s go!

Christian: Go on without me! I will trust in the Lord to rescue me!

The water continues to rise. Eventually the Christian, caught up in his prayer, drowns. He is now in heaven standing in front of God.

Christian: God Almighty! Why did you not try to save me?

GOD: What do you mean not try? I sent three people!

Until next time

Joe

I run the website for my school’s main engineering club, so I thought I’d throw it in my portfolio. Enjoy:

Until next time

Joe

Just to let those people out there know - I changed the name of my blog from “Joe Did it Again!” to “From the Mind of Joe”

Know it sounds more like a blog and less like an old Britney Spears song.

Until next time

Joe