Tim's Bloglet

John Kerry, Kitesurfing. A tasteful wet suit, as these things go. I still want to know how they steer. (but, alas, not enough to look it up. Again Google puts my puny desire for knowledge in perspective.) He does, in fact, have eyes. They appear to be brown. _
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11:40:08 AM, Tuesday 20 January 2004

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The paddles how have an energy level; as they get worn out, their acceleration drops. Since bouncing off a wall saps energy, it's possible for a paddle to end up in a kind of bounce-induced unconsciousness. Now I need to make the AI a bit lazy so it stops knocking itself silly. It also means you can beat up the other paddle. I think I'm going to create a second table, with a wider goal, and add a slope behind the goal crease, so stop the puck dribbling back for goals. Making the puck look decent as it goes between the flat field and the goal crease slope might be excessively hard. Then I need to make it so paddles can read all their settings from a file; and then I can work on a paddle creating tool. Shame I have a job, really. _
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