From: animated silicon love doll (cheshire@velvet.net)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 18:56:05 MST
2002.02.12 17:36:16, "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
>Steve Jackson did the "choose your own adventure" books? Are you sure? I
>googly think SJ Games did something *like* a "choose your own adventure"
Would the definition of adverb-google in this case be something along the lines of "I
think, with the help of Google, etc..."
>I know it's pathetic, but "Choose Your Own Adventure" and "Pick a Path to
>Adventure" are among the happiest memories of my young life. You can take
>your babbling river brooks and playgrounds and summer camp and tire swings
>and sell 'em on eBay; they'll never compare to "Revenge of the Rainbow
>Dragons". (Everyone remember page 63?)
My personal favorite was the one in Ancient Japan, which I sadly cannot remember the
name of. Something to do with samurai. Musashi whose-other-name-I-also-can't-remember
was in it; and a lot of ninja. I read that one soooo many times.
>Oh, well. It is written that those who are not blessed with happy
>childhoods shall be compensated with books.
I had a happy childhood *and* books! Does that make me special?
cheshire morgan. Advance and never halt, for advancing is perfection.
Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path,
for they draw only corrupt blood.
-Kahlil Gibran
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