coyoteseven

A friend of mine said I should put this in my journal. This was a reply to someone else's journal originally.

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I used to be a wizard on SPR. They still use some of the programs I wrote there.

I used to be a wizard on Puzzlebox. I don't know if they use any of the programs I'd modified for them anymore.

A story I wrote for alt.sex.stories.moderated actually got reviewed. Even though it wasn't finished and it wasn't very good, the reviewer still thought it was interesting.

My real name appears in the scrolling credits for the games "Star Wars: Demolition" and "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command", but only on the Dreamcast versions. I was part of the QA team.

I lived three houses away from Danny Elfman when I was five years old.

I once read a book by Larry Dixon, based on Larry Dixon's advice that I read a book by an "established fantasy author", when I was poking around for advice on writing a story that a skant few of you here might know that I am still working on. He didn't know that I knew it was really him. But he pushed his books so damn much that I could smell his ego all the way over here! The book was a chore to read though, and he seemed way too obsessed about griffons to the point that they messed up the plot. Once I told him what I thought of the book, for some reason he never spoke to me again.

I shook Jeffrey Jones' hand. This was long before he was convicted as a sex offender, obviously. That man is super-tall.

I once got into a conversation with my chemistry teacher after class, about unit conversions. I'd just read an article in Byte concerning the speed of light expressed in units furlongs per fortnight (the article was by Jerry Pournelle, a much better author than Larry Dixon, but I digress!). The very next test we had, that very question was in it. Who knows how many people at Rio Hondo College in Whittier during the 90's had to calculate the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight as part of their midterm from then on.