the reformatters at hand  by  bishopdante

 glacier requiem  by  bishopdante 

did you know that lucasfilm released cyberspace, as known to most as second life in 1986. For the C64? What on earth?!?? Yes indeed.

Look at how bad that is ahahahahhhahaaa



check it out here

Today, a woman divorced her real wetware husband for committing adultery on second life. That's right, she virtually caught him with a prostitute. Now, I don't know if being a proper sad case is good grounds for divorce... but I don't think that's cheating. Anyhow, that's journalists for you. It was probably the "fucking asshole" more than the "he's cheating on me".

They thought that it would be easy. It wasn't. They never even released it. It just wasn't worth the hassle. But they did do a pilot, and learned plenty.

But speaking of engineers, and actually people in general, this was the quote that made me post this.


We were initially our own worst enemies in this undertaking, victims of a way of thinking to which we engineers are dangerously susceptible. This way of thinking is characterized by the conceit that all things may be planned in advance and then directly implemented according to the plan's detailed specification. For persons schooled in the design and construction of systems based on simple, well-defined and well-understood foundation principles, this is a natural attitude to have. Moreover, it is entirely appropriate when undertaking most engineering projects. It is a frame of mind that is an essential part of a good engineer's conceptual tool kit. Alas, in keeping with Maslow's assertion that,

"to the person who has only a hammer, all the world looks like a nail"

, it is a frame of mind that is easy to carry beyond its range of applicability. This happens when a system exceeds the threshold of complexity above which the human mind loses its ability to maintain a complete and coherent model.

This rather frightening website is called Stickam.