Double Entendre is a great technique for speeches, like the ones you see presidents giving on the television, or the ones you practice in front of the mirror.
This is a common theme throughout all jobs, no matter how exciting and entertaining they seem at the start, after a while they just become tedious habits, the same thing over and over. Even though gaming might be fun when you play on your freetime, being "forced to play" doesn't create a fun mental image, especially when it isn't a game of your choice.
Sounds like the skroderider's skrodes from Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep". No one could explain how they worked, or what any individual piece of the machine did, but it all worked. Kinda cool.
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Yeah, he still teaches at MIT. I took his course last year. He is a great guy, and would take the class out for beers all the time. The only downside of his course is that he is not a big cyber-punk fan, whereas I am (Gibson rules!) and he forces you to write your own short story in the class. I had a great idea for a quick cyberpunk-ish future story, which got good reviews by my peers in the class, but got blasted by Haldeman.
Haldeman seems to know everyone cool in the Sci-Fi realm and has all these cool stories("Bob" Heinlein is a big gun freak, and gave his wife4 a massive pistol for an anniversary present), and also knows most people in the movie industry (Spielberg, et. al). Anyway, I think that he is writing the screenplay for one of his older books (Mindbridge, I think) so look for it to come out in the not too distant future.
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Double Entendre is a great technique for speeches, like the ones you see presidents giving on the television, or the ones you practice in front of the mirror.
This is a common theme throughout all jobs, no matter how exciting and entertaining they seem at the start, after a while they just become tedious habits, the same thing over and over. Even though gaming might be fun when you play on your freetime, being "forced to play" doesn't create a fun mental image, especially when it isn't a game of your choice.
Sounds like the skroderider's skrodes from Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep". No one could explain how they worked, or what any individual piece of the machine did, but it all worked. Kinda cool.
Yeah, he still teaches at MIT. I took his course last year. He is a great guy, and would take the class out for beers all the time. The only downside of his course is that he is not a big cyber-punk fan, whereas I am (Gibson rules!) and he forces you to write your own short story in the class. I had a great idea for a quick cyberpunk-ish future story, which got good reviews by my peers in the class, but got blasted by Haldeman. Haldeman seems to know everyone cool in the Sci-Fi realm and has all these cool stories("Bob" Heinlein is a big gun freak, and gave his wife4 a massive pistol for an anniversary present), and also knows most people in the movie industry (Spielberg, et. al). Anyway, I think that he is writing the screenplay for one of his older books (Mindbridge, I think) so look for it to come out in the not too distant future.