Let The Games Begin!
Pioneer Life Along the Electronic Frontier
You know the frontier is closing when guys like Al Gore ride into town, yammering away about making the territory safe for women and children. They have string ties, Eastern educations and mothers who came from good families.
But the real work was done by those who came before -- people taking the consumers of Powdermilk biscuits as role models and "'getting up and doing what needs to be done". Often before anyone knew it needed doing.
- So it was with the
Father of Shareware.
- For the computer language maven,
"How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot" in every language of the future you ever learned.
Special Note: This server's proprietor is finding it all a bit too much himself, and is trying to find someone to take it over.
- One of the benefits of computerizing everything was supposed to be the paperless office. We've been waiting for it for at least thirty years. A few of us have prepared for the day when paper will be looking for a job.. Visit them, and they will show you how to fold the
paper airplane of the month.
In Our Dreams
- ... we're all
Jeopardy!
champions.
- ... blackjack experts, too. Here's a
gambling information
site.
- Something for nothing! In fact, lots of somethings. And your fellow freebie
hustlers on the 'net have gone to a lot of trouble to make sure no one misses out.
Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
- A spectacular buffet of food for the mind on the subject of food for the body is available at the
Foodplex.
- Most computer wizards are science fiction fans. I no longer am -- I outgrew the space operas, and I don't understand the literary stuff. I'm a mystery fan, and frequently take tea with the
ClueLass.
- With so many world-class fruitcakes having homepages, a link to rationality would hardly seem to stand a chance. So lie down ("Why stand to reason?", says Dr. Who, "Much easier to reason lying down.") and check out the glorious
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
- And for those of you whose reaction to the top graphic was, "Where's the entrance?", solve 3-D virtual reality mysteries in ancient Rome in
S * P * Q * R
... with assistance from my
SPQR Companion page.
The Weird Turn Pro
- There are plenty of self-appointed experts who'll direct you to the the best of the web; Mirsky pioneered tracking the worst. For those for whom it may have been too much, his
Drunk Browsing field sobriety test is available.
- You might like to fall into the clutches of that naughty lady,
BiancaTroll
- ... but I prefer to call on those merry souls in
Spatula City .
You Might Get What You Need
- If you spend too much time hunched over your PC, you might have lost track of who's alive and who isn't. Consult the Dead People's Server (current address; under yet another new management) for full details.
A Cast of Dozens
-
Enjoy Western hospitality, great shareware, and more at this page's former host, Viable Software . Many thanks to Casey Butler for having given this page a home!
- Chris Bussler runs what amounts to an unofficial extension of the Goethe Institute, covering
Bavaria
and points east.
- Tyler Nally, self-appointed NASA information officer, who keeps better track of the
space shuttle
than the official ones do.
- A whole bunch of my multi-cultural colleagues are involved in Today's Traveler magazine.
- Those knowledgeable about blackjack know that the first computer analyses of the game were done by nuclear physicists, on their way from their Los Alamos lab to their Nevada test site via Las Vegas. They have apparently handed off to the rocket scientists; from just north of Cape Canaveral, Michael Dalton publishes
Blackjack Review magazine.
...and the technical credits:
-
Tim Finer
asks no more recompense for his graphics (such as the one at the head of my Technical Resources page) than acknowledgement.
-
Your Team
developed the much-admired bit background, also the one used for the ABCs page,
- whose blocks ran away from the Home of the Horizontal Rule (The SKuLL, prop.).
... and There's More!
This page's URL is:
http://pages.prodigy.net/feaudrey/funstuff.htm
