{"id":570,"date":"2020-09-10T16:13:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T23:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=570"},"modified":"2020-11-26T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T19:14:46","slug":"sid-meiers-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2020\/09\/10\/sid-meiers-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Sid Meier’s Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a fan. Of video games. But that was back in the Pleistocene of the computer age.<\/p>\n

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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 ;-).<\/p>\n

At the same time I discovered something even more amazing: basic word-processing, which was then itself infected by HTML.<\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
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On Sep 10, 2020, at 15:06, XX wrote:<\/b><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Wow–cool! \u00a0The ghost-writing by your niece. \u00a0I didn’t know you were a fan of computer games. \u00a0I 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!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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On 2020-09-10 14:52, George Lang wrote<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I don’t know why I feel the atavistic urge to\u00a0signal that my niece Jennifer Noonan ghosted Sid Meier’s (the inventor\u00a0of Civilization) Memoir!<\/div>\n
https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Sid_Meier_s_Memoir_A_Life_in_Computer_Ga.html?lid=szTTDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Sep 10, 2020, at 15:06, XX\u00a0wrote:<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Wow–cool! \u00a0The ghost-writing by your niece. \u00a0I didn’t know you were a fan of computer games. \u00a0I 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!<\/p>\n

On 2020-09-10 14:52, George Lang wrote:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For these with a past or a present or an interest in computer games;\u00a0myself, but the first. I don’t know why I feel the atavistic urge to\u00a0<\/span>signal that my niece Jennifer Noonan ghosted Sid Meier’s (the inventor\u00a0<\/span>of Civilization) Memoir!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Sid_Meier_s_Memoir_A_Life_in_Computer_Ga.html?lid=szTTDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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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 … <\/p>\n

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