Daily Archives: 3/7/2005

“Who cares what others think?” redux

3/7/2005 – 9:14 pm

A couple of days ago I commented on the whole podcastalley hullaballo and the role that popularity plays in the actions of blogger/podcasters. You can go back to here if you missed it all, or just wanted to review. My point was really that pursuing popularity (or more specifically, superficial measures [...]

By Mark VandeWettering | Posted in Blogging, Rants and Raves | Comments (0)

Car Physics

3/7/2005 – 12:47 pm

Marco Monster has a nice tutorial article on Car Physics that’s worth reading if you are thinking about writing your own version of Grand Tourismo. There is also a ton of good links at the motorsport sim Wiki.
Addendum: Brian Beckman’s Physics of Racing series can be found here as [...]

By Mark VandeWettering | Posted in Link of the Day | Comments (1)

Screw You, America West

3/7/2005 – 2:28 am

Well, it’s one o’clock in the morning on Monday. If everything was right with the world, I probably would be at the Oakland Airport awaiting the arrival of my wife and son on their scheduled America West flight. After all, I checked the flight information before I left for the airport, and [...]

By Mark VandeWettering | Posted in General, Rants and Raves | Comments (1)