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My life without God

This is awkward.
Most of my family and friends consider me to be a devout Christian. Mostly they believe this because that’s what I’ve been until relatively recently. I have a few things to get off my chest about this and to set the record straight.
I was raised in a very devout and loving Christian home. [...]

Posted 10 December 2009 † steveth45 § ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

S3, jVi, Turning 30 and Mortality

Amazon S3 is an amazing service. I just wrote some code at my day job to utilize S3 to offload static content to S3 which takes a huge load off the web servers. It has an amazingly simple REST API. It’s a breeze to use. I’m thinking about using S3 for my own personal backups. [...]

Posted 22 July 2009 † steveth45 § Geek Stuff ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

List, list, O list!

Supposedly, Thomas Edison said, “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” Apply that to patent litigation, and a successful patent suit should entitle the lazy patent holder to no more than 1% of the proceeds of their brilliant idea. That’s being generous.
I used to be involved in the video game industry. I went to [...]

Posted 16 June 2009 † steveth45 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Joystick Support in PrBoom 2.5.0

PrBoom is a fairly conservative port of the original Doom source code for modern computers. It is very stable, incorporates a lot of improvements and additions to the Doom engine from other ports. It has one shortcoming, however. The joystick support is awful. You can only use the first four buttons on your joystick in [...]

Posted 25 April 2009 † steveth45 § Geek Stuff ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: , , , ,

I Got Married

Posted 19 April 2009 † steveth45 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Update: Modular / Pluggable Roguelike

I had to scrap my codebase after a false start. I took a second look at my goals after discovering the 7DRL. To my surprise, a large number of people are writing their own roguelikes. This is a common pasttime among hackers, apparently. My project looked like just another roguelike, but in Python. I don’t [...]

Posted 07 April 2009 † steveth45 § Geek Stuff ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

What is deliciousrobots.com?

The primary Caretaker, Facilitator, and Mad Genius behind deliciousrobots.com and the author of this blog is me, Stephen A. Goss. By trade, I am a software engineer, which is a slightly fancy way of saying computer programmer. I have many hobbies and diversions, but the focus of this web space is exploring ideas both new [...]

Posted 18 February 2009 † steveth45 § ‡ Comments (0) °