I love my phenalic tip

I get really nice spreads with this stick now, and it jumps like a dream. New DVD came in, "pro skills drill(s)", just buy the book, the dvd is almost useless...

By the by: if anyone out there does any objective-c cocoa framework programming for mac, send me a message, or comment or something, I've got a major problem going on with trying to randomize the list of names from my double elimination bracket app.

I am frustration, only at programming

Got a phenalic tip(no i do not know how to spell it) put on my break stick again. It hits harder than .... I was going to say altz heimers(no i can't spell that either, and am way too tired to look it up) but that would cross a line, which I just did....

anyway

I just developed a double elimination bracket application for Mac OSX. It'll be up online sometime probably in a week, but the randomize names function is kind of broken right now.



Ran 2 more racks yesterday.

today, was よかった

For the first time in almost 2 weeks... hell maybe a little more than that, I ran a rack out today, and almost another one.

For some reason the videos are running at like... 1.5x speed or something, no clue.

Break and run:



Break and fail:



PS: I can tell a large difference since using those videos and drilling the shots. I am starting to see things a little differently on the table.

Two things to mention:

1) Bert Kinister's video - "9-ball video series; 60-minute workout"

This goes over 27 different shots, or variations on shots. The focus is entirely position play, and after drilling it for about 2 hours(I had to figure it out) this morning, I noticed I was seeing things a little bit different, in a good way. Won 3 races in a row when I started playing. The video was lent to me by a friend, so I don't know if there's a companion book, but if it does not, I have 3 complaints. First, the reasonable one: There is no explanation of what kind of english, or how hard/soft he is stroking some of these shots, you have to figure it out yourself. Second: he did this video on a bar table, where the angles are a little off, and the cross the table draw is suddenly much less impressive. Thirdly, and least legitimately: Take the damn lapel mic off if you're not going to explain things. He was breathing so hard I thought I was watching a B-rated pool-table porn or something.

2) www.cuetable.com rocks
Great site for showing examples to people online, but shockwave has problems on intel-macs.

yeah, new video coming on wednesday or some of the shots from that video.

the focus of everything has changed

So I've decided to make this a pool and or final fantasy 11 based blog. But seeing as that I don't really play FFXI as much as I used to, small comments might be the only light of day that those references may see. but anyway.

I PLAY POOL OBSESSIVELY
It's not healthy, it's ... Well, let's just say it's a good thing my fiance works all day and I'm still a grad student(implying I have a concept of free time)

Below is a video of a practice rack I played today. More will follow as I catalogue them, and weed out things I already understand that are wrong with my playing. I implore all who watch, and play the game, to give feedback. I have only one request: Make it constructive please. So let me have it! Give me feedback, ideas for drills, things people want explained, anything. I have time, and too much desire to play "the perfect game."

joys of java

i'll mail 50 cents to anyone who can tell me what is wrong with this javascript
it will never do the "for"'s correctly
ps: has unicode japanese fonts.


function scorePage()
{

question1=document.forms[0].question1;
question2=document.forms[0].question2;
question3=document.forms[0].question3;
correct = 0;
txt = ""
for (i=0; i< question1.length; ++ i)
{
if (question1[i].checked && question1[i]=="1")
{
alert("this was right");
correct++;
txt = txt + question1[i];
}


}
for (i=0; i< question2.length; ++ i)
{
if (question2[i].checked && question2[i]=="1")
{
correct++;
txt = txt + question2[i];
}

}
for (i=0; i< question3.length; ++ i)
{
if (question3[i].checked && question3[i]=="1")
{
correct++;
txt = txt + question3[i];
}

}
//txt should equal whatever was checked by the student... but it doesn't
document.getElementById("score").value="You scored a " + correct + " out of 3!";
document.getElementById("answers").value=txt;
}

And then there was gayness

it's 9:15... my boss hasn't shown up yet, and i was supposed to start working at 9:00....

not in the mood