MM>> Not even laptops resist the move...
 HL>> Or a sledgehammer in its most sensitive parts.
 MM> Did you ever play `Colossal Caves' ?  A text adventure
 MM> exploring a treasure cave system, written for early Unix
 MM> systems ?

Never heard of it.

 MM> There's a story about a student who'd played for 20 hours on
 MM> a library monitor and was nearly at the final treasure when
 MM> "A dwarf jumps out and kills you with his dagger"...
 MM> Said student is said to have stood up, carefully parked his
 MM> keyboard **inside** the monitor before leaving the library in
 MM> an icy fury...

Oooooooh! I know that feeling all too well. I used to like playing the
car racing games. I'd be in the lead until the last minute when a
car would suddenly cut me off. There was always a mushroom
cloud over the house then.
Now I don't even bother with the games. I'm sticking to solitaire.
I use my computer now for internet, BBS, music and desktop publishing.

 MM> I reflect on this tale in times of stress, and put the log-
 MM> splitter back..

I've got an inflatable baseball bat next to my PC... as stress relief.

 - From the insane desk of Supernerd
 - My cat wasn't broken - but I fixed him anyway.

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