Of all the Lucas Arts games, there are apparently pretty serious technical problems involved in getting Grim Fandango to run on today's machines. There are Forum threads about this all over the Internet, which any interested parties can easily find, and they will give you more detail than I can. It'...
June 02, 2011 • 3:55 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
For Jim: as a Philadelphian by birth and a fact freak by nature, I can tell you that the W.C. Fields epitaph, though correct, is misinterpreted by most everyone today. Remember, Fields spent his early life a s a touring vaudevillian. Philadelphia's audiences were known throughout vaudeville as the t...
February 03, 2011 • 9:41 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
After the scandal and trial that ruined him in England, Oscar Wilde, the most elegant man who ever lived, spent his last days dying of meningitis in a cheap rented room in Paris. The last words often attributed to him (though to be honest there's no proof): "Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!...
February 01, 2011 • 5:02 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
Jim et al, The following is not an urban legends - I heard it from the lead astronomer of the New York Academy of Natural Sciences who was part of the team that demoted Pluto from its full "planet" status. Two state legislatures have passed laws declaring that Pluto remains a planet despit...
January 22, 2011 • 4:53 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
Thank you, friends - I did have a wonderful day, spent with my wife exploring Williamsburg, a strange and interesting neighborhood of Brooklyn. You never run out of neighborhoods to explore in New York City, despite what James Ellroy says immediately below the line here.
January 21, 2011 • 4:48 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
Agreed, Bafitis. Given the checkered development history of Grey Matter, it seemed impossible to me that something wouldn't suffer. One irony is that in an interview Jane Jensen gave some years ago, when Grey Matter was still just something in her head, she lamented how much longer it had taken to d...
January 21, 2011 • 4:42 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
Adventure Gamers gives it distinctly less than a rave:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,1251
http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,1251
January 09, 2011 • 9:20 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
Re: The Intricacies of Thermodynamics
Sorry, Bjyman - I'm pretty good with jokes and fascinated by urban legends, but when it comes to theology I'm a washout!
December 05, 2010 • 9:15 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
Re: The Intricacies of Thermodynamics
I can't believe you guys had a long thread on thermodynamics and no one posted the following. It is all over the Internet in this form and the “frame story,” including Teresa’s participation at the end, is actually an urban myth. It wasn’t written by a student in response to an exam question, but by...
December 01, 2010 • 3:13 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
No one here has noticed antihydrogen yet?
You all must remember Kevin McCarthy's astonishment at the discovery of "antihydrogen" at the end of Pandora Directive and Tex's heropic effort to keep it from being used to blow up the world (depending on your ending to the game). Well, guess what, everyone: antihydrogen (as in the antima...
November 20, 2010 • 9:09 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
Re: RIP Stephen Cannell, only 69...
I go to a great reading series once a month at a Brooklyn waterfront bar. The guy who puts the series together is, among other things, a crime novel writer, so he knows a lot of other crime writers (often Edgar nominees or winners). They come often, sometimes just to listen, sometimes to read. I ove...
October 10, 2010 • 11:32 am
by Harry of Brooklyn
Thanks, Jim! The chronic headache I told this board about in a time long, long ago and a galaxy far, far away have gotten a lot worse. I can't video game any more and have even, for the time being, stopped playing Interactive Fiction with my wife in which I was heavily involved. Well, I guess I was ...
September 16, 2010 • 4:13 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
What a great day for me to have checked in after who knows how long! Congratulations to you and your femme fatale Adele, David!
September 05, 2010 • 8:20 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
Re: Gabriel Knight 2 - the beast within
How can GOG tweak games written for Win 95 and Win 98, never intended for DOS, to run in DOSBox? I've been curious about that. Anybody know?
March 08, 2010 • 6:46 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn
Jim, IMHO, there is no reason whatsoever to use IE when you can use Mozilla, unless, say, you are trying to download from a site (like Microsoft, amazingly) that insists you use IE. (1) It's an inferior product. (2) Because it has such a large user base, tons more malware is written to penetrate IE ...
March 04, 2010 • 9:29 pm
by Harry of Brooklyn