Meme Me Up. Spotty...

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This is a meme I'm stealing from Roz Kaveney and others, seems like a good idea. I know about some of the people who have friended me, others are strangers or may be reading this on someone else's friends page, without knowing who I am.

First, about me: I'm Marcus Rowland, educational lab technician and writer. I'm 50, live in London. Credits include the Forgotten Futures and Diana: Warrior Princess RPGs, a couple of SF and horror stories anthologised, and some fanfic, mostly BtVS related. My main interests are Victorian & Edwardian SF, SF in general, BtVS and related fiction / TV, etc. Three pet snakes, approx 5000 books and games, and more laserdiscs and DVDs than make much sense complete my household.

Why not tell me something about yourself?

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I was the second-best Othello player in my junior high school.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Do people still play that? I thought the early implementations of Windows had killed it for everyone.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I play it with my kids.

I don't know about Windows killing it. When I was in Jr. High School, Windows meant "things you open to let air in."

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There used to be a Reversi / Othello game in Windows 3.1

Trouble was that the programming wasn't at all flexible; it made the same move every time in the same situation, even on the "hardest" setting. Once you realised that it was possible to beat it every time. A lot of people thought that was all there was to the game, and never went up against a human opponent.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Ah, that would do it.

I have a backgammon program on my Palm that I stopped playing because the thing accepts doubles that no human player would ever accept.