Alarishi sanity, was Re: Name Changes
From: "Chris DeBoe" <LASERLIGHT@Q...>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:48:04 -0400
Subject: Alarishi sanity, was Re: Name Changes
The NRE Office of Barbarians said:
>"Half the reason we deal with them is the humor value"
Are you thinking of Jack Old Ron, or GeekSoft?
Jack Old Ron is of course the renowned author of the classic children's
series Silly Sheep. It used to be that children at bedtime would go to
sleep by counting sheep jumping over a fence; however, Silly Sheep never
quite manage to make it over the fence. They waterski, they tie
themselves
to kites, they pole vault (more difficult than you'd think, with
hooves),
they fire themselves from circus cannons--one even disguised himself as
an
artichoke and, when last seen, was inching down the hill in an attempt
to
take the fence by surprise. The Silly Sheep series has been translated
into
38 languages; over three billion copies have downloaded. Jack Old Ron
is
also known for his visually stunning trideo epics (To Ride a Painted
Dragon;
Lance of Light; The Colour of Her Name), and for the fact that he is the
sole population of an Alarishi sovereignity.
GeekSoft is known to programmers as the producer of GeOS, and to
shipping
lines for the SkyNet traffic management system, but most consumers know
them
as the producers of the Max Hyrax games. Originally intended as a
children's game, the ridiculous antics of Max and his bumbling gecko
sidekick caught on among adult gamers; even twelve years after the
game's
debut, Max's trademark observation ("Crud!") often reduces Hyrax addicts
to