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On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:35:26 GMT,
Terry Austin (taustinca@gmail.com) wrote:
> Some Guy <noemailformethanks.DeleteThis@anyplace.invalid> wrote in news:45ZAj.12676
> $CD7.10058@newsfe11.phx:
>
> > http://www.blackgate.com/articles/symposium_gygax.htm

> Pity they made it medium blue text on a black background, and thus
> completely unreadable. Might have been interesting.

Yeah, terrible design.

"Select all" fixes it for me (depends on your OS and browser settings).

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Terry Austin <taustinca.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in
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> Some Guy <noemailformethanks.RemoveThis@anyplace.invalid> wrote in
> news:45ZAj.12676 $CD7.10058@newsfe11.phx:
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>> http://www.blackgate.com/articles/symposium_gygax.htm
>>
>> My favorite quote:
>>
>> While I was reading our office manager Dixie came into my office,
>> holding a phone and looking a little perplexed. "There's an important
>> call for you on the Sales line," she said. No one calls me on the
>> sales line. It was Howard Andrew Jones, telling me Gary Gygax had
>> just died.
>>
>> "Who the hell is Gary Gygap?" Mary Jo Skrobul asked at lunch.
>>
>> "If geeks had a nation," I said, groping for a way to explain, "he
>> would have been our king."
>>
> Pity they made it medium blue text on a black background, and thus
> completely unreadable. Might have been interesting.
>

Sometimes I click 'highlight all' if I really want to read something. One
thing I miss about opera is I could get rid of all the background colors.

-phy
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On Mar 9, 5:59 pm, Some Guy <noemailformetha... RemoveThis @anyplace.invalid>
wrote:
> "If geeks had a nation," I said, groping for a way to explain, "he would
> have been our king."

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phy <phy00x DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in
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> Terry Austin <taustinca DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9A5C9E98C7E3Ataustingmail@69.16.186.7:
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>> Some Guy <noemailformethanks DeleteThis @anyplace.invalid> wrote in
>> news:45ZAj.12676 $CD7.10058@newsfe11.phx:
>>
>>> http://www.blackgate.com/articles/symposium_gygax.htm
>>>
>>> My favorite quote:
>>>
>>> While I was reading our office manager Dixie came into my
>>> office, holding a phone and looking a little perplexed.
>>> "There's an important call for you on the Sales line," she
>>> said. No one calls me on the sales line. It was Howard Andrew
>>> Jones, telling me Gary Gygax had just died.
>>>
>>> "Who the hell is Gary Gygap?" Mary Jo Skrobul asked at lunch.
>>>
>>> "If geeks had a nation," I said, groping for a way to explain,
>>> "he would have been our king."
>>>
>> Pity they made it medium blue text on a black background, and
>> thus completely unreadable. Might have been interesting.
>>
>
> Sometimes I click 'highlight all' if I really want to read
> something. One thing I miss about opera is I could get rid of
> all the background colors.
>
From what I could tell, it rather waxed philosohpical about what a
financial genius Gygax was, and how all TSR's woes trace to them
getting rid of Gygax. Yawn. He was tossed because he nearly drove
them out of business with idiocy like trying to make movies. That
his successors were even more inept does not change this.

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Terry Austin

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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:07:19 GMT, phy <phy00x.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Terry Austin <taustinca.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in
>news:Xns9A5C9E98C7E3Ataustingmail@69.16.186.7:
>
>> Some Guy <noemailformethanks.RemoveThis@anyplace.invalid> wrote in
>> news:45ZAj.12676 $CD7.10058@newsfe11.phx:
>>
>>> http://www.blackgate.com/articles/symposium_gygax.htm
>>>
>>> My favorite quote:
>>>
>>> While I was reading our office manager Dixie came into my office,
>>> holding a phone and looking a little perplexed. "There's an important
>>> call for you on the Sales line," she said. No one calls me on the
>>> sales line. It was Howard Andrew Jones, telling me Gary Gygax had
>>> just died.
>>>
>>> "Who the hell is Gary Gygap?" Mary Jo Skrobul asked at lunch.
>>>
>>> "If geeks had a nation," I said, groping for a way to explain, "he
>>> would have been our king."
>>>
>> Pity they made it medium blue text on a black background, and thus
>> completely unreadable. Might have been interesting.
>>
>
>Sometimes I click 'highlight all' if I really want to read something. One
>thing I miss about opera is I could get rid of all the background colors.
>
>-phy

Heh - that's the first thing I do for most pages. Click on "User
mode" in Opera, so I can absorb the content rather than seeing someone
else's aesthetics.
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