Continued from previous post
<insert strobe lights and a dramatic musical score>
I was in…
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see.
I was captured and sentenced to “the game grid”. A female program gave me my identity disc and escorted me to the arena.
“What am I supposed to do?” I asked.
She simply replied, “Survive.”
I started to run.
And I
really wished that I’d noticed the text that said, “Avoid the Red Hazards”.
Aaaaahhh! I’d been de-rezzed! But this was a computer game, and I still had a couple of lives left. Whew.
What I needed was an Isomorphic Algorithm to come to my rescue. Like this one.
Maybe I could use a little rescue even on this side of the grid. But I digress.
Anyway, since Quorra never appeared, I was on my own.
Oh yeah, I had some tricks up my sleeve. Take that, Master Control Program!
They even tried to throw ancient technologies at me, like this IBM Selectric. Not that I’m old enough to know anything about them.
It’s not exactly a lightcycle, but it’ll have to do.
I fight for the users!
At the last possible moment (per the “action-movie” formula, of course) I reached the portal and used my light disc to transport back to the real world.
<insert strobe lights and yet another dramatic musical score>
What an adventure! I was glad to be back in the real world. Well, not the
real world real world…back in Epcot, which is actually way better than the real world!
James was the first to finish his game, so I couldn’t get any pictures of him, but I went to see how the rest of my family was doing “in the grid”. Here’s Judy.
If this were a James Bond movie, he’d say something like, “I guess you could say she’s been ‘typecast’.”
Whoa, she puts the “hang” in “hang ten”!
“Go Judy. Go Judy. Go Judy.”
I got to Marlene’s game just in time to capture her victory dance.
Lauren was just starting her game.
That’s quite a jump. She’s getting some good “air”.
And finally, Lauren’s victory dance.
We e-mailed these games to ourselves, but never got them. I don’t know if they got eaten by our spam detector or what. Well, at least I was able to get documentation of the events while we were there.
By the way,
and I don’t know why I thought of this, but James and I went to see “TRON: Legacy” over the weekend. It was pretty good.
Up next: What’s your problem? And other “trash talk”.
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Rosie in her most refined attire !!!
