{"id":135,"date":"2005-02-24T13:41:25","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T18:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=135"},"modified":"2005-02-24T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T18:41:25","slug":"pretty-wry-for-a-flyguy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/pretty-wry-for-a-flyguy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Wry for a Flyguy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Alexander blogs about Flyguy, a wonderful Flash dream-game that I will not describe. Instead, I urge you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trevorvanmeter.com\/flyguy\/\">check it out for yourself<\/a>. Then, if you&#8217;ve a mind, read what <a href=\"http:\/\/infocult.typepad.com\/infocult\/2005\/02\/speaking_of_fly.html\">Bryan has to say about it<\/a>, and if you&#8217;ve half a mind, read my comment in response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trevorvanmeter.com\/flyguy\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-images\/flyguy.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"Flyguy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flyguy reminds me a little of &#8220;A Silly Noisy House,&#8221; an early multimedia CD-ROM by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringyourbrain.com\/\">Voyager Company<\/a> that my family has always found very charming, piquant, and lovable. You&#8217;ll find a brief description of it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/2.08\/streetcred.html?pg=2\">this <em>Wired<\/em> article<\/a> from (gulp) 1994. Another website recalls &#8220;A Silly Noisy House&#8221; fondly and calls it &#8220;abandonware.&#8221; (CD-ROM as Velveteen Rabbit?) On his MIT website, Marvin Minsky talks about Voyager and his work with them on his &#8220;The Society of Mind&#8221; CD-ROM. He also gives <em>SNH<\/em> a mention.<\/p>\n<p>Some folks complained that <em>SNH<\/em> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyopc.org\/newsletter\/1996\/03\/kidstuf.html\">cute but a waste of time<\/a>. All play, no education. My own position is that the best play is an education in wonder, and that lessons in wonder (or, you might say, lessons in expecting neat stuff) must always be part of the curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>I have located more information on Peggy Weil, who developed <em>A Silly Noisy House<\/em>. I don&#8217;t have a definitive timeline for her, but it seems that in the late 90s she was working on a project called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrmind.com\/mrmind3\">&#8220;The Blurring Test: Mr. Mind&#8221;<\/a> for a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblab.org\/about\/about.html\">&#8220;Web Lab&#8221;<\/a>. (Is this company still a going concern?) As of last fall, she was an adjunct professor in the USC School of Cinema-Television, and she spoke on <a href=\"http:\/\/interactive.usc.edu\/archives\/002584.html\">&#8220;First Person Media&#8221; at a conference in the Interactive Media Division<\/a>. I wonder if Prof. Weil ever met Bob Keeshan. (Strange TV site here, but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvparty.com\/lostterrytoons.html\">good little piece on <em>Captain Kangaroo<\/em><\/a>, complete with lo-res clips.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Alexander blogs about Flyguy, a wonderful Flash dream-game that I will not describe. Instead, I urge you to check it out for yourself. Then, if you&#8217;ve a mind, read what Bryan has to say about it, and if you&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/pretty-wry-for-a-flyguy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-2b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}