Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # J. D. Wise Author and Programmer ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [More Square Man Levels](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/computing/more-square-man-levels/) - Square Man Puzzle Game has just had its first update on steam, which includes 100 new stages - [What's in a Game?](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/games/whats-in-a-game/) - What is "football"? It's a strangely controversial question. With the FIFA World Cup going on—hosted in North America, no less— the question is more in focus. Many insist that the sport FIFA oversees is properly called "football" and nothing else. Yet many nations—especially those with other sports they call "football"—have another name for it: "soccer." - [Square Man Release](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/computing/square-man/) - At long last, I'm happy to introduce Square Man, a real-time puzzle game in which you collect stars and move blocks around the stage in order to accomplish certain goals. It has hundreds of stages built in, plus a level editor so you can create and share your own levels! For more information, check out - [Text Adventures](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/computing/text-adventures/) - Escape rooms are still popular, gamebooks continue to pop up here and there, and role playing games are no longer the stuff of nerds (though they still are that too...) At such a time, it seems fitting to revive an old standard in the world of computer games: the Text Adventure game! Like most things - [Hymne à l'amour](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/music/hymne-a-lamour/) - The opening ceremony to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France was...fraught. But among the gaudy and the garish, as the ceremony came to a close, Celine Dion suddenly appeared on the Eiffel Tower and sang "Hymne a l'amour." She had been struggling with stiff-person syndrome and had so had not performed in several years. - [New Algorithm](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/computing/new-algorithm/) - Based on some new analysis I've done of Nanyan numerals (as described here), I've discovered a new algorithm for generating Nanyan numerals. Previously, the only way I new to generate them was to factor the number and recursively figure out the Nanyan numeral for each prime factor and then combine them from lowest to highest. - [New Project](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/status/new-project/) - Since The Ancient Chronicle came out, I've been sorting out what my next project will be. I have the next book in the Postdiluvian series more or less mapped out (in my head), and I started working on it, but I have not gotten far on it yet. Instead, I have a very different idea - [Coding Nanyan Numerals](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/computing/coding-nanyan-numerals-part-1/) - On the Postdiluvian blog, I gave an explanation of how Nanyan Numerals work. Now I want to show you how to create a simple Python program for converting to and from Nanyan Numerals. For this post, I’ll focus on converting Nanyan numerals to a more readable integer. The language of choice for this project is - [Out of Order](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/math/out-of-order/) - Social media is filled with posts trying to catch people out on their ignorance (or forgetfulness) of the arithmetic order of operations. Everyone learns this at some point in their education, but most people rarely have to think about it in daily life. Even so, you would think that after years of seeing these same - [To the Moon](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/computing/to-the-moon/) - For the past few years, we've had a number of 50-year milestones for the various manned lunar flights. Apollo 8 circled the moon in December 1968, and the following year Apollo 11 made the first manned lunar landing on July 20, 1969. Besides Apollo 11, there were five other lunar landings, ending with Apollo 17. - [In Flanders Fields](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/poetry/in-flanders-fields/) - Though this poem may be more appropriate for Remembrance Day, it is more than suitable for Memorial Day as well. In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the - [Maze Sets](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/games/maze-sets/) - Recently, I've been revisiting an old hobby—mazes. In the past, I've drawn mazes by hand, and I had never written a proper maze generator before. But for some reason or other, recently I thought I'd give it a try. I briefly looked at some articles for suggestions how to go about it, and then I - [War of the Worlds](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/radio/war-of-the-worlds/) - It's Sunday October 30, and on this day and date in 1938, Orson Welles and his Mercury Players performed the famous War of the Worlds broadcast. Relive that moment now by listening to this famous broadcast on YouTube. - [A Happy Ending?](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/music/a-happy-ending/) - What would happen if certain art forms were as popular as sport? Opera, for example—imagine if every large city had multiple opera houses, each bragging at how their performances were better than any other. Paradise for some, a nightmare for others, but fantasy regardless. Though we'll never reach that point, there are times when it - [Yorkshire Pudding](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/food/yorkshire-pudding/) - Yorkshire puddings are a tasty sort of bread roll made of flour, eggs, and milk or water and baked in pans filled with hot oil. Smother them in gravy or cook them with sausages or maybe eat them with a bit of fruit and whipped cream—Yorkshire puddings go with just about anything, whether sweet or - [Ode to Solitude](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/poetry/ode-to-solitude/) - Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. 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Castle of the Vampire - [Books](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/books/) - Postdiluvian: The Ancient Chronicle Long before the destruction of the antediluvian world, a band of humans fled Earth to live among the stars. They are the Nanyanin, and now, thousands of years after the ancient deluge, their descendants are spread throughout the galaxy. Jake Connolly lives among the Nanyanin, though he is not one of - [Postdiluvian: The Ancient Chronicle](https://www.jdwiseauthor.com/postdiluvian-the-ancient-chronicle/) - Long before the destruction of the antediluvian world, a band of humans fled Earth to live among the stars. They are the Nanyanin, and now, thousands of years after the ancient deluge, their descendants are spread throughout the galaxy. 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