OK, so I know I'm kinda geeky; had a ZX81 aged 8, been online since 1995 and being doing net stuff ever since. But tonight, I went to the Clerkenwell Literary Festival to see the 'Can Computers Tell Stories' seminar thing cos it had Dave Green and James Wallis (who I know) plus David McCarthy of Edge magazine (who I don't) arguing with each other, which I thought would be good for a giggle.
No firearms were in evidence. Shame. I was tempted to lead the cries of 'Fight, fight, fight' but didn't think it would go down well. Dave Green made some amusing gags about bananas (creeping up on the video game market, apparently), Dave McCarthy talked about the narrative in computer games being similar to medieaval literature and James Wallis intervened in any rows that were likely to errupt (ably assisted by Steven Armstrong)
Would have been better with more violence.
Realised I was getting there geek-wise when I recognised 2 people and had ace conversations with at least 4 others. Met top bird called Jo who I've been meaning to chat to for ages and talked about creating a 'Pornograph' (Running gag: I'm a pornographer with no pornograph) Rough idea is a Linux box (computer, for non geeks) running a database that spits out randomly generated porn stories. No use other than that.
But it's got to be good for a laugh.
Posted by emilyd at July 17, 2002 12:36 AM