Money Tree Urban Legend
Hilarious. Chase Visa or some other credit card companies issued a credit card to a tree. What a superfluous waste of paper, especially imported paper (because California was stupid enough to shut down the pulp industry, but hasn't figured out a way to actually limit the state's exorbitant use of paper).
I learned the word superfluous when I was probably 11 years old playing a game called "EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus". I looked at the Copyright date and found out that it was released somewhen in 1992. I probably got that game, my first computer game, a year or so after that. It was one of the best computer games I played, and it taught me a lot of environmental values.
I especially love the Oracle in the game, who always rhyme everything that shi said. In fact, it was hir that helped give me my first email address at excite.com, delphi.oracle@excite.com. I don't use it anymore, but I still have that account from so many years ago. Excite has gone through numerous changes and updates, after fallout of the Dot Com burst. I still check it from time to time, though.
Ah, the history makes me think through all the aliases and screennames I've had: Trilan (based on a Star Trek book I read about Treelane or something, I was a dork at that time), Combined (based on make-belief I had about having multiple personalities that I was trying to unite into a combined entity), and some others. And then, to think of ICQ, when an online friend referred me to that chat service, almost before it became so popular and the UIN became so large a number as to be unwieldy.
Whatever happened to Sierra? They don't make good games anymore?
Hilarious. Chase Visa or some other credit card companies issued a credit card to a tree. What a superfluous waste of paper, especially imported paper (because California was stupid enough to shut down the pulp industry, but hasn't figured out a way to actually limit the state's exorbitant use of paper).
I learned the word superfluous when I was probably 11 years old playing a game called "EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus". I looked at the Copyright date and found out that it was released somewhen in 1992. I probably got that game, my first computer game, a year or so after that. It was one of the best computer games I played, and it taught me a lot of environmental values.
I especially love the Oracle in the game, who always rhyme everything that shi said. In fact, it was hir that helped give me my first email address at excite.com, delphi.oracle@excite.com. I don't use it anymore, but I still have that account from so many years ago. Excite has gone through numerous changes and updates, after fallout of the Dot Com burst. I still check it from time to time, though.
Ah, the history makes me think through all the aliases and screennames I've had: Trilan (based on a Star Trek book I read about Treelane or something, I was a dork at that time), Combined (based on make-belief I had about having multiple personalities that I was trying to unite into a combined entity), and some others. And then, to think of ICQ, when an online friend referred me to that chat service, almost before it became so popular and the UIN became so large a number as to be unwieldy.
Whatever happened to Sierra? They don't make good games anymore?
posted by Alan at December 16, 2005
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