Category Archives: CURRENT AFFAIRS

NEW MEDIA & IF: Using Old Tools to Learn the New

Posted on June 23, 2006 by Susan

While it is my normal manner to jump right into something, I do go back and read directions and manuals shortly after beginning.  In New Media, there are some standard things to learn: keys and mouse clicks to move characters … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICITON: Book and Volume – Slow Reader

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Susan

I’ve lost my hard-learned knack of getting through  IF.  To give you an example, the transcript from I’ve made of my progress in getting outside from "my" apartment to the street to begin my mission (the text reponses/directions following the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Book and Volume – Observations

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Now that I’m all cocky because I finally got past the first "event," and was presented with my first task and seem to be on the right road, some observations about both IF and this piece in particular… Just as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & IF: Story

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

First, the IF piece, Book and Volume:  Finally got the secret code word that answers the pager.  Simple, and I’d thought I’d already tried it, but I guess not in the right sequence.  Anyway, the response on my part was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Book and Volume

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Well, it didn’t take long for me to fall right back into character with this–and I had to search the net to find the WinFrotz Interpreter to download.  I love IF, because it’s just so me.  I am in my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: New Stuff

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Well, there’s just no way I can think about getting another job when Dennis Jerz brings even more "reading" into my life, resurrecting interactive fiction (of the text sort) with a couple of entries this morning on new writing software … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: A Bit of History

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Susan

Nice rundown on the base of interactive children’s books by if.books complete with pictures to call up memories to help us understand direction of the written word. I’d never had the opportunity between generations to come across the My Adventure … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Quoth

Posted on May 2, 2006 by Susan

Wow.  Looks like some neat new stuff happening in IF with sound and relationships.  Check out Quoth. (Thanks to Dennis Jerz for the link) Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Income Tax

Posted on April 15, 2006 by Susan

Very interesting theory of taxation distribution over at Marginal Revolution.  (Follow their links as well.) There’s a concept of improving the work ethic and the economy by decreasing income taxes based on age.  But of the younger, rather than the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Politically Correct B.S.

Posted on February 20, 2006 by Susan

Just heard this on the local tv station, WFSB, as a closing on Sports Sunday: Top three things heard at the Nascar Daytona 500: #3 – Is that a new tooth? #2 – Where do you park your house for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: State of the Union

Posted on January 25, 2006 by Susan

Something becomes fodder for jokes when it both appeals to and appalls common sense.  The strangest part is that it then becomes accepted fact, and a sad joke at that: American Business at its best… Toyota, a Japanese company, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Things that Bother Me

Posted on November 27, 2005 by Susan

This is worth checking out from the New York Post:  Poor Grades Aside, Athletes Get Into College on a $399 Diploma.  An excerpt: He received three F’s that year and had a 2.09 grade point average in his core courses, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Suicide Couple

Posted on November 11, 2005 by Susan

From the AP news: Expert:  Suicide-bomb Couple May be a First: AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed Friday that four Iraqis, including a husband and wife, carried out the suicide bombings against three Amman hotels, and police arrested … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Service?

Posted on May 6, 2005 by Susan

Just heard on the local news–fire departments are going to try to start charging for coming to motor vehicle accidents.  This is happening in Ansonia, CT, but evidently fifteen Connecticut towns have signed on to pass legislation for this ability … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Sophocles Now

Posted on April 17, 2005 by Susan

From Point to Point, news that brings me temporarily out of hiding:  The Oxyrhynchus Papyri being read.  While not as stimulating perhaps as Willie, certainly exciting and heartening news as literature of the past is read for the first time.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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