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This site, and all similar endeavors, are dedicated to my dad, who always encouraged my growth as a techie.

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Samuel Truman Cornelius

July 23, 1945
December 16, 2007

Engadget 1985

amusing attempt to re-live the old days…
[via Waxy]

for the record, at that time, i was in the early stages of my techie journey with a TI-99/4A (with the 128k (?) memory expansion, disk drive, voice synthesizer, 300 baud modem, printer – ah, what i wouldn’t do for a pic of my old desk), i remember . . . → Read More: Engadget 1985

tongue-in-cheek about out-of-character

this is from the help files of Achaea – Dreams of Divine Lands, a text MUD we are contemplating throwing large portions of our life away to…

it is a role-playing-required game, though, and i have not done that sort of thing since i was a teenager, and am not sure i am in any hurry to . . . → Read More: tongue-in-cheek about out-of-character

links – text adventure and a news item

of course, these days, they use the much broader (and therefore less descriptive) term “Interactive Fiction”, rather than text adventure…

The Best of Interactive Fiction
very good reference for choosing a game…

Baf’s Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive

The 10th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition

XYZZYnews Home Page

EPOC Interactive Fiction
now THIS is handheld gaming…

and, the news item…

Indiana University study: having children . . . → Read More: links – text adventure and a news item

a few various links

Why I hate Microsoft

DTS Online – Consumer – Home Theatre – DVD Title Search

Chicago Sun-Times – Roger Ebert – Movie Answer Man

Museum of Hoaxes – Time Travel Spam
Wired News: Turn Back the Spam of Time

Achaea – Dreams of Divine Lands
IRC Roleplaying – Dungeons and Dragons Games Looking for Players

The Morning News – Tricks of the . . . → Read More: a few various links

virtual worlds, virtual drugs

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63578,00.html
damn fascinating…

here are some excerpts…

The world of massively multiplayer online games is often a dangerous place, what with constant threats from bloodthirsty monsters and murderous non-player characters. But now players have even more peril to contend with: addictive drugs that can incapacitate or kill their characters.

The designers of Achaea, one of the biggest online text-based games, . . . → Read More: virtual worlds, virtual drugs