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Eighth grade was one of the happier years in my adolescence. I was in a class with a lot of good people, and my homeroom teacher was nice, too. He gave us something called the "T-Option." Basically, if you printed a writing assignment on the computer, you got an extra day! Those of us with spiffy Apple IIes were way ahead of the game. Others could still go to the computer lab. Procrastinators like me loved it. My parents hated the dot matrix printer whizzing along around 9 PM.
And for this, and because he was Mr. T. Brown, we gave him the respectful yet playful nickname "T-Bone." Many other teachers had much worse.
Workout lazier, not writing lazier. Planned to go this AM, slept in, then wanted to avoid Cubs traffic.
But I used these excuses to actually, you know, write, instead of goof around. Which is good. I've been goofing around on my work breaks instead of writing/organizing writing recently, and vacation/holidays tend to help me change that. But just before leaving I talked with someone about my writing textfile, how many lines it has, and how it'd only take X days if I looked at Y lines a day, and that is just simple arithmetic and why didn't I think of that before. This person is a great sounding board for that sort of thing, and it's not accidental. He's someone who wants more than beer-and-pizza-and-laugh-at-dumb-people out of life.
Oldies 104.3 always was a great radio station in Chicago, before Jack FM took over and fired the great Dick Biondi. I remember as a 15-year-old who knew little or nothing about oldies, I studied and memorized hard and soon even named that 10:43 mystery tune well over half the time. The DJ's didn't talk too much but always enjoyed things. And one all-request night back around 2000 is this memorable exchange:
"Hi, who's this?"
"This is Jenny!"
"Jenny, where you from? How old are you?"
"I'm from xxx and I'm 19."
"HEEEEYYYYY!! You like RICKY MARTIN?!?!" (plays "La Vida Loca" in the background)
"You only say thanks and sorry because you're guilt tripped into it."
"Thanks for the advice. Sorry I never noticed that before."
"Dammit. Next time I get violent."
Back in the opening days of HGWars I realized my HGPoints would dwindle quickly as I made my way up the level ladder. So I worked out ways to get relatively cheap HGPoints while submitting content to the site. The easiest was to port over guides and reviews. I like to have final say on what's over here--basically, I want my -better- writing to be here, if possible. Guides got schlepped over with reviews, and they got even more HG Points.
It was a program of a board game. You rolled a die, and you could move around a board, where you could take a vocabulary quiz, edit a newspaper article for grammar, or do other things. I remember at the end if you won, the computer said "hold still for your picture" and the screen briefly flashed white.
I'm too cheap at the moment to gamble $5 on MetaFilter so I thought I'd ask here first, then move around. Maybe I'll even post on a newsgroup or something. But I've remembered this game off and on, and I've discovered other forgotten games trying to think of this, too. I've trawled a few game lists but nothing rings a bell.
On Apple IIgs guides at this site. Or I will shortly, unless I sent the wrong-formatted file in.
I will soon expand my empire to Apple IIgs reviews. So if you click on anything Apple IIgs, you will have my review recommended.
Can ColecoVision and Vectrex be the next to fall?
You may laugh. But many are the times I was playing computer Risk and had nought but Eastern Australia and twenty armies...and soon I rolled to victory.
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