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Maybe "ashamed" was too strong a word. More like "disappointed" maybe, in that the examples I concocted weren't more interesting and challenging.
posted by hashiru at 4:05 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2008
I wrote one of the books in your library: "Programming Your Own Adventure Games in Pascal" which I am both proud and ashamed of at the same time if that makes any sense.
Strangely, my parents lived in New Orleans for six years (1963 - 1969) while I was in college. I spent the summer of 1963 living at home and frequenting the NOLA Public Library by day. Who knows, I might even have been handed a leaflet re the Fair Play for Cuba committee by Lee Harvey Oswald, as I walked from the library to the bus stop on Royal or Bourbon Street (can't recall now which one it was) Back then they kept the building temps at about 65 degrees. After a day of sitting and reading in the lib, your whole body would become air-conditioned and while walking out into the hot Louisiana summer afternoon was like jumping into a steam bath, you could walk the several blocks to the bus stop without breaking a sweat. Funny how I remember that after all these years. (Much more than you wanted to know :-)
-- Dick Vile, in Dexter, MI USA
posted by hashiru at 9:30 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2008