The only way to win is to not play
April 27th, 2008 at 12:15am |
What’s a perfect way to spend a Saturday night?
Watching women hit each other very hard, on roller skates. Fresno’s Smog City Roller Grrls beat Santa Cruz 100 to 70. We saw one other game last summer. Loved it.
This year, it seemed a lot more professional and organized. How exciting for Fresno! And the chicks who hit hard.
And what’s an even better way to spend a Saturday night?
Come home to watch WarGames.
The only way to win is to not play.
How about a nice game of chess?
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Love that movie! I laugh every time I see Broderick put that rotary phone handset on a 1980’s modem…and then proceed to dial up NORAD. It’s so laughably unbelievable! But for the day, that movie was cutting edge.
Yeah, I spent some time ridiculing things, like the speaker (it’s there in one shot, but gone after). Heather pointed out that schools at that time were very unlikely to be networked, and certainly not accessible from the outside. Maybe that’s just my school being backward, though.
I like the fact that he’s somehow dialing to supposedly California, but lives in Seattle, and aren’t there going to be some long distance charges involved? Isn’t he going to get in trouble with his parents? Yet he somehow accidentally gets into NORAD, which is in Colorado, right?
Then when he gets taken to NORAD the first time, he’s taken in a car. Did we miss the whole having to fly? Because I can guarantee you he didn’t get quickly from Seattle to Colorado in a car.
Lots of little things.
But thoroughly enjoyable. Modem is great! The big floppy disks, also great! Our family’s first computer had the smaller floppy disks. Even our computer wasn’t *that* old.