Category Archives: Computer Programming

Education Or Indoctrination?

Well here we go again. Once more Christians are insisting that they are above the law. Why? Because of their “sincerely held religious beliefs” of course. Seems that Colorado offers state funding for preschools, but they must meet certain requirements. Schools participating in this program may not practice discrimination because of the sexual orientation of the student or the parents. And we all know what Catholics think of the LGBTQ community. Continue reading

Keeping Occupied

As most of my family and friends already know, I had a fairly serious heart attack in late November of 2020 while working in Idaho. It required a quintuple bypass surgery to keep me in the world a little longer. It’ll still be a few more weeks before I can legally re-certify (I’m a truck driver) and get back to work. So I’ve been sitting here at home in Mississippi trying to keep myself occupied and entertained. Continue reading

The Lava Lamp Project

 

ThumbnailSo the other day I got the crazy idea I’d build my own GIF animator. Actually wasn’t that hard because I was using a command line tool called GraphicsMagick. No that’s not a typo. They spell it with “ck.” Anyhow, I built a little UI with MS Visual Studio so that I could select the images via a file dialog, set the delay & dispose properties, and then automate writing the command script from Visual Basic.
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