Things I worked on today:

• Posted a blog entry
• Programming
• Photos
• Reaching out to people who can help me in my job search

Stunningly productive.

Tomorrow:

• An application for an English teaching job.
• Finish up the Brasil photo set.

Decided not to implement collision detection here.

The programming I did today was to get objects moving around onscreen in response to touch commands. Then I did a fairly rudimentary simulation of acceleration by periodically updating the speed the object moved at. I took advantage of this to also update the direction the object is moving in, which is prrretty cool.

These will eventually have to become vectors, and instead of doing movement actions over time, I'll primarily be updating the locations directly. I'm enjoying making things happen, but for now it's buggy as hell and the code is poorly organized, so while I did clean out some gunk today, to follow up, tomorrow I would like to do some:

• Refactoring. Is the technical word for it. But I'm an editor, and this looks like a nail, so I'm going to whip out my trusty hammer. (Protip: the hammer is my editing, according to Captain Hammer.)

For idiomatic smoothies that are incomprehensible yet delicious, take two parts metaphor and one part pop culture reference and set blenders to "mix."

Then enjoy.