List of wisdom

 Below is a list of wisdom I've accumulated over the years:

1) Don't make a list of wisdom unless you want to sound like a ****.

How fast can the last cog in a googol machine turn?

On Mar 1, 2020 at 14:52 Daniel de Bruin was a billion seconds old. To celebrate he built a machine that has a gear reduction of one googol (one followed by a hundred zeros) to one

In his words "In order to get the last gear to turn once you'll need to spin the first one a googol amount around. Or better said you'll need more energy than the entire known universe has to do that."

Below is the original video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFslB0AcVmM


So it would take more energy than contained in the universe to turn the last gear, but how long (theoretically) would it take?

OK, lets assume that the gears in the actual machine have a radius of  5cm, then the maximum velocity of the first gear would be that at which its outer edge is travelling at (well, just below) the speed of light.

So 0.1*pi gives us approximately 0.31m circumference. So dividing by the speed of light give us 0.31/2.99792×10^8 m/s (meters per second) which mean it will take 0.0000000010 seconds to rotate once. Multiplying by a googol gives us :

3.279×10^83 years  

OK, what is we shrink the googol machine to it smallest size to get in more rotation per second. Lets imagine a the gears are the size of a hydrogen atom. The equation (that I put directly into wolfram alpha) was

(((width of a hydrogen atom in metres)*2*PI/2.99792×10^8)*(10^100))/(seconds in a year)

= 3.3229×10^74 years

And to think, if your immortal you will live to see it happen!

Is 10 cents an hour a record low wage for a game dev?

Hi All,

about ten years ago I got a small indie game published. A lot of things have happened since then but I was just thinking about it.

It was called Lexiclix and I was the lone programmer/developer and level designer. In fact I did everything apart from the music (which I bought online) and some of the artwork (which was done by an artist I hired).

Anyway, I was thinking about all this (maybe open sourcing the game or making a Lexiclix 2) when I began to wonder how much I had been paid by the hour.

Well, I began to sketch out the concept of the game around 1999 when I began investigating DirectDraw and various other graphics libraries and wrote a little code to move bitmaps around the screen. Life got in the way, but in 2004 I moved into a flat alone and began development in earnest, full time. I estimate that over the next  decade that I spent thinking about/writing Lexiclix I spent between 5 and 10 thousand hours of work on it before getting the game published in 2009.

Along the way i learnt about graphics programming, graphics libraries (thanks Haff for the marvellous and FREE! game engine https://github.com/sungiant/HGE ) and sound libraries. I learnt UML and Photoshop and how to make music and sound effects. I also learnt a LOT about the C++ programming language.

All in all i enjoyed those years tremendously and wouldn't change them for a thing, but how much had I earn't financially?

Well, I after completing the game I managed to find a publisher who agreed to take on the game and put it out as a cut price CD game (remember those?). I had no illusions about my game being triple A (though I was and still am tremendously proud of it) so this seemed good.

After the game got published I ended up in a bit of trouble and spent some time in hospital. When I got out I looked into how much the game had made. Not much. Three years later the rights transferred back to me and I had made a grand total of £800 GPB (about $1000 USD).

So, dividing through this works out at 8 pence an hour or around 10 cents per hour of work.

Now, this wont be the least anyone has earn't from making an indie game (most never get finished or if they are given away free), but could this be a record for a published game?

Let me know if you developed a game and got paid less (or more).

Oh, if you want to see the game I lost the source code and .exe but here is a "teaser" video on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrecCehErvQ

Thanks

Cleerline

Thank god I have a big warm......

bed.
These last few days have been hell for some people in the UK. those without heating , the money to run it, or even a home.
I have spent these last few days in bed and still find time to moan (I have nothing to do WAH!).
At Christmas lets say a little thank you for all those things we have that many others don't.
Thank you British government and British taxpaying public for keeping me safe and warm and fed this Christmas.
Thank you to my family for all the love and support.
Thank you to my friends for the same.
Merry X mas.

Been dishcharged!

Well, let me just say the last few months have been a, whats the word I should use here? Errr, wierd? or maybe nightmare, or maybe shattering.
I have just spent 4 months in St Annes Hospital on the mental ward. It was messed up. Seriously messed up.
I got about 3 hours sleep a night if that. The guys in my dorm snored like champions. George, god bless you, there is something wrong with your nose!
I remember thinking at one point during my stay, that there had been a collapse of society and civilisation. And that I was being punished. I was a show prisoner in a new regime, being punished for being self absorbed. I thought that it had all started with the G20 riots. That because I had not taken part the new Marxist regime had decided to make an example of people like me. Narcissists. people so caught up in their own little world that they didn't notice a revolution occurring around them.
I thought the Daily Mail newspaper contained articles written for me by the resistance.

As part of this I would only be let out if it looked like I was enjoying myself and wanted to stay!

You know, I still don't understand what happened there. At one point I was being spoken about on the radio. Every channel I tuned into was about me!

Anyway, I'm out now. Sane.

Except my days are empty. Whilst in there all I spoke about was wanting to leave. But now I see it was OK. If I had had a secure room to call my own and more sleep I think I could survive there. A secure room, the internet and sleep.

Well now I have those. I sleep all day. I am on haldol which I hate cos it makes me so sleepy. I feel like my life is slipping away from me when all I do is run around half asleep. Its been over a year now that I have been on medication that I feel I don't need. Hell, I dont know what I need. Last night I went to meet.com event and got scared by a load of sci fi nerds. I am a sci fi nerd myself but I still got self concious. Perhaps that is part of my personality now. Perhaps nothing can be done. Just let go

thousand and yum!

You know, I love and appreciate the 1001 more and more. However, apparently my attitude towards some of the women of the 1001 and SFTS gives the impression that "anyone will do". Well, err, the ones I fancy WILL "do".

Anyway, went to a gig last night. Seriously thought I was going to see an old friend there and totally fell apart (smoked, drank, got arrested).

I feel like my head is being torn apart, and since not 48 hours ago I got a size 10 to the face it just might be.

"Would you like some Whine with that sir?" Seriously????

OH, and looked at GMs profile. Blurgh indeed.

1001 re-revisited

I remember the first time I went to the 1001. Caught the eye of one of the barmaids. She did have bangs (which I do like), but she also has a pretty face and an attractive friendly style (which I like(d) a hell of a lot more)

Oh, and I don't go "woo hoo!" at the breaks, not because I dont feel it, because I do, but because I can be a bit pompous and find it hard to let go (hopefully not too much though).