In this second installment of the wild adventures in setting up an aquarium, I’ll go through what I did to install a 30 gallon sump into the stand of my 125 gallon aquarium.

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I get a lot of questions about how I set up my 125 gallon aquarium shown above, so you’ll find everything you ever wanted to know about it here. I’ve broken the process down into parts and this first part will focus on the building of the stand. I regularly post update videos on YouTube, so you should also check those out. A link to my channel is on the menu to the left.

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I was tasked with completing a programming exercise from Rubyquiz.com and I chose to do the reverse hangman game. I opted to expand on the challenge by adding a few features I thought would be cool, such as the computer’s ability to choose the most likely letter in a given dictionary.

I wrote it in Java and it uses a sort of artificial intelligence to play a reverse game of hangman. The player gives it a word and it will use a supplied dictionary.txt file to try to figure out the word in a specified number of attempts.

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This is an amusement park that I created using GLUT and GLTools for a computer graphics course in fall, 2011. It contains a ferris wheel that can be lit on fire, a carousel with moving animals, and a roller coaster with a set of moving cars.

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This is a simple client-server game developed to test out the RakNet networking library. It is highly primitive at this stage but interesting to see if you’re into programming. You can run multiple instances of it and connect to your own machine to see the client-server stuff in action. It supports up to 10 players at a time.

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I was talking about this website with some people at a career fair today and it made me remember how devoid of content it has been for awhile. So, I thought about what kinds of things I could put here and I figured it would be a good idea to post my programming projects here as I work on them. Right now I’m working on a game-type-thing using the RakNet and Ogre libraries and once I have something made that I think is worth showing to people, I’ll post that here.

I was interviewed by the popular StarCraft 2 maps site starcraft2mods.com about my Evolves Classic map. You can read the interview here:
breakspirit’s interview at StarCraft2Mods.com
Check out the Evolves Classic article in the menu to the left for the whole scoop on the map. Thanks.

I’ve created a Starcraft2 custom map which has become relatively popular. It is a take on the classic SC1 map named Evolves, which I’ve named Evolves Classic. Read all about it here.
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I recently became an amateur aquarist and began consuming all the knowledge I could about aquariums. Well, I came across a very cool animal called the crayfish and have been keeping one as a pet. I find that many people don’t know what crayfish are. Through my studies of astacology, I have learned much. Basically, they are little freshwater lobster monsters born in burning hell waters.

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There are few things in life as satisfying as owning a pet. I already have a cat that pretends she doesn’t know I exist, so I needed another pet that barely needs to be cared for. Well, it turns out that ants are about the easiest pets in the world.

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