Mulling Things Over

I haven’t worked on CLinNet in quite a while, but a few months ago I started playing with RDNZL, a .NET/Common Lisp interface written by Edi Weitz. Very nice! But I found the need to use assembly-qualified type names, or to import types or assembly contents, to be fairly cumbersome when I worked with Direct3D. [...]

I’m trying out WordPress as of today. Although I copied over my two existing articles, I haven’t bothered to bring over the two legitimate comments. (Sorry, Alex and Chuck!) I’m hoping that fighting referrer and comment spam will be easier with WordPress. We’ll see.

Here’s an overdue update to my post about rolling your own smokes. After about six months of using the Supermatic II cigarette-stuffing machine, it was getting more and more balky. It would jam frequently, and wouldn’t quite stuff the full length of cigarettes, requiring a lot of tapping to pack the tobacco down to the [...]