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I saw this Wall Street Journal on Modern-day Text Adventures on Slashdot. That brings me back – way back – to 1979 and the computer clusters at the University of New Hampshire. Someone had installed ADVENT on the DEC-10s – that’s what we called Crowthers’ “Collosal Cave” adventure. To say that changed my life would … Read more
In the beginning, there was Slashdot, “News for Nerds”. I posted replies now and again, and eventually, they started giving me moderator points – the ability to push posts up and down in the ranking. And then they started letting me META-moderate posts – grading the moderators. Can I use this on my resume? Who … Read more
After a bout of instances and questing over the weekend, Kanda hit level 40 and gained Shadowform, the end of the Shadow spec tree and the mark of a Shadow priest. When you’re in Shadowform, you can’t heal, but your damage and ability to take damage improves. This makes shadow priests somewhat less desired for … Read more
Today’s news is from Harry Chapin’s “The Was Only One Choice”: There’s a kid out on my corner, hear him strumming like a fool Shivering in his dungerees, but still he’s going to school His cheeks are made of peach fuzz — his hopes may be the same But he’s signed up as a soldier … Read more