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A High-School Hacker's Notebook
An anonymous reader writes: "Remember those high-school lunchtimes, back in the day, when you and your computer-nerd friends would hang out by the Krunch Korral, discussing that cool computer game that you were all going to write? And one guy did the music, and one guy made the levels, and you wrote it all down in a notebook? Well, just in case you lost it, here's that notebook."
Mine was similar, but it wasn't a game, it was a business that sold pet supplies online. A friend of mine (a great puppeteer) thought of a good sock mascot. Then, we were going to spend all our money on 1 huge superbowl commercial. We were going to make millions!!!!
I also has a dream in which I would get a degree in computer science and make money!!!
I basically am about to get a degree in potato farming and the Irish Potato Famine just happened.
I know a guy that spent all his time making instruction booklets for games that didn't exist. It started getting scarey when he did one with a multi-dick hermaphrodite named 'George' who worked in a cheese factory and your goal was to cultivate a new form of yeast infection from the bacteria used to grow cheese.
There's a mirror right here
I've been out of high school for a long time and I still do that on my lunch breaks. And after work. On my coffee breaks. Before lectures. After lectures. While watching TV. Riding the bus. Walking down the street.
But not in bed. The girlfriend put the kibosh on that one early on.
Called "Dodge the Slashdotting 2002", and base it on personal experience.
if this was written in 1984 and the game consists of a big white circle being eaten by a big green circle, then I've been ripped off.
Im still in high school... and the only difference is that we sit around with our laptops and one person gets the 3D design, and another person does teh website, and another makes sure that we dont get sued for uninetntionally creating a game too similar to an existing one...
And one guy did the music, and one guy made the levels, and you wrote it all down in a notebook? Well, just in case you lost it, here's that notebook."
Hmmm... that doesn't look like my handwriting.
"Chances of RHIC-induced Armageddon are exceedingly rare, but... you never know." - MIT Physicist Bob Jaffe
Then, he was weird. Now, he's probably considered a cutting edge avant-garde artist, hanging out at all the cool parties and dating a girl who looks like Laura Prepon. Or, he's still living in his parents' basement. At least he found a way to survive high school.
Freedom: "I won't!"
We were too busy fending off those big goons who tried to take our lunch money.
People, the Slashdot effect is getting out of hand. We've now slashdotted a spiral-bound notebook? Someone must put an end to this madness!
You could even call it something cool, like "slash cache"..
Remember when you were a kid and you had this cool idea for a video game, so you put it up on a website, but some big bully of a site came along, pushed you down in the mud, slashdotted your site and stole your lunch money?
Am I the only one here who wondered more about what party to go to at the weekend and chatting up the girls ? And going to practice explicitly because it seemed to make you more attractive to women. Was I strange that as a 14 year old I was obsessed by breasts ?
:-)
Damn didn't realise I should have been worrying about other things
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
> I just did and about 64 windows opened and my machine hung.
"Slashdot Effect II: The server strikes back"?
Now my 14 year old son has one. Hell, he may end up like me. Jeez.. I better talk to that kid!
Of course they could just host the images on :)
Geekshelf and not worry about it
I keep a notebook with all the cool toys I'm going to get when I graduate from the university. I made my perfect pc, my ultimate car stereo, and pimp home theater. Problem is, since I'm graduating in Computer Science, they'll be on paper for a while.