Comments | spike: [POLL] It's not just a job, it's an adventure.

spike

[POLL] It's not just a job, it's an adventure.

Mar 21, 2011 08:45

Poll It's not just a job, it's an adventure.

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spike March 21 2011, 13:00:08 UTC

Heh. I remember that! (I earned my living speaking VMS for a couple of years in there.)

moominmolly March 21 2011, 13:23:29 UTC

I always want to see the hand-drawn map. I am now having an extremely vivid memory of my own!

spike March 21 2011, 13:28:54 UTC

Mine has some rather ... unusual ... cartographic notations.

I'll show you mine if etc.!

moominmolly March 21 2011, 13:39:42 UTC

Always etc for you! Though mostly mine will consist of me describing fighting with my brother Paul over the yellow legal pad and our notation scheme.

spike March 21 2011, 13:47:14 UTC

Mine might have benefitted from a second person's commentary on my "notation scheme."

Or, you know, any consistent correlation between compass directions and directions on the map. It is clearly drawn by a programmer who has NO issues introducing a new layer of abstraction, even when everyone else WILL have issues. Except, that is, for a certain young spelunker who doesn't read regular compass-direction maps all that well yet...

catya March 21 2011, 14:34:24 UTC

funny notes:

my friend gail has the license plate xyzzy (nh)

the game was written by my high school gf's father as he got through his divorce. her mother was/is in the guinness book for mammoth cave, which is it based on. (ETA: hey, wikipedia agrees! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther)

(my gf never finished the game. her older sister did)

tk7602 March 21 2011, 20:40:40 UTC

My company has a client that is involved with the government, but most of us here do not have authorization to know who they are specifically. We talk to "Joe", and refer to the client as "xyzzy", based on the old game.