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Sid Meier’s Memoir

I was a fan. Of video games. But that was back in the Pleistocene of the computer age.

I did get beyond Pong, all the way to Pac-Man, Bizarro and Tempest, the last my fav. But that was before the RNA of FRP (fantasy role playing) games infected that genre ;-).

At the same time I discovered something even more amazing: basic word-processing, which was then itself infected by HTML.
For a while I was absorbed with the possibilities of hypertexts. Wrote a couple of fortunately unsuccessful grant proposals to markup a corpus of writing in creole languages, create a data-base, etc.
Though I remained vested in Texts, I admit to having passed hours on Flight Instructor with a then young nephew of Nasrin’s, Bob / Babak. Also, used to play Super Mario with another adolescent son of a colleague in Edmonton. The adults would go off into another room and drink their beer.
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On Sep 10, 2020, at 15:06, XX wrote:
Wow–cool!  The ghost-writing by your niece.  I didn’t know you were a fan of computer games.  I guess this is a bit sophisticated for my 12-year-old grandson, but he says he wants to be in the gaming world as a career!

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On 2020-09-10 14:52, George Lang wrote:

I don’t know why I feel the atavistic urge to signal that my niece Jennifer Noonan ghosted Sid Meier’s (the inventor of Civilization) Memoir!

 

 

On Sep 10, 2020, at 15:06, XX wrote:

Wow–cool!  The ghost-writing by your niece.  I didn’t know you were a fan of computer games.  I guess this is a bit sophisticated for my 12-year-old grandson, but he says he wants to be in the gaming world as a career!

On 2020-09-10 14:52, George Lang wrote:

For these with a past or a present or an interest in computer games; myself, but the first. I don’t know why I feel the atavistic urge to signal that my niece Jennifer Noonan ghosted Sid Meier’s (the inventor of Civilization) Memoir!