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Practice Guide for Computer
Adapted from Ron Miller’s Advanced Improv Practice Guide
Before starting your daily practice routine, read and seriously
consider the following:
A. DAILY AFFIRMATIONS
- How fortunate I am that in this life I am one who has been allowed
to create beauty with computer. - It is my responsibility to create peace, beauty, and love with
computer.
B. I WILL BE KIND TO MYSELF - IT IS ONLY COMPUTER
- No matter my level of development in computer, how good or bad I
think I am, it is only computer and I am a beautiful person. - I will not compare myself with my colleagues. If they do computer
beautifully, I will enjoy it and be thankful and proud that I live
in fellowship with them. - There will always be someone with more abilities in computer than my
own as there will be those with less.
C. REASONS TO DO COMPUTER - To contribute to the world’s spiritual growth.
- To contribute to my own self-discovery and spiritual growth.
- To pay homage to all the great practitioners of computer, past and
present, who have added beauty to the world.
D. RID YOUR SELF OF THE FOLLOWING REASONS FOR BEING A
PRACTITIONER OF COMPUTER - To create self-esteem
- To be “hip”
- To manipulate
- To get rich or famous
old computers and publications
Computer in the windtunnel using her sliderule. #retrocomputing https://archive.org/details/C-1951-27174
In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.
how wrong tv series are about computer stuff
"Anyone who has dug their old computer or console out of the cupboard or loft for some retro gaming will probably have noticed that it maybe hasn’t worn too well with the test of time. The plastics these machines were made of is called ABS and to make it flame retardant the plastics manufacturers added chemicals that caused the plastic turn yellow or, even worse, brown over a long period of time" <- AND HOW TO CLEAN IT !
Doug Engelbart giving the "mother of all Demos" 1968
"The Joking Computer, a kiosk-based installation running software made by artificial intelligence researchers at the University of Aberdeen. The software uses phonetic information about English words and semantic information from WordNet to generate pun-based riddles"
Including Bukowski's poem "16-bit Intel 8088 chip"
It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future
Hollywood OS
The desk of famous Games Producers and Journalists. Interesting ;)