GR mod of Half-Life 2

David Casseres david.casseres at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 00:38:53 CDT 2005


BandWraith sez

>  Well, fonz, you might try emailing Negroponte:
>  
>      http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/
>  
>  He started and continues to run MIT's Media Lab.
>  Of course, If you just google "Negroponte" you're 
>  as likely to come across "John" Negroponte, Nick's 
>  brother-  a horse of an entirely different color:
>  
>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte
>  
>  Now John is more of an analog type guy than Nick- 
>  more pragmatic and down to earth- less prone 
>  to idealistic digital visions of the future- less playful. 
>  So, he might not be able to provide you with much 
>  inside info into any video games based on GR. On 
>  the other hand, he could certainly provide you, if he 
>  chose to, with all kinds of information about those 
>  "bumps in the road" on the way to peace in Bagdad, 
>  not to mention the hundreds of thousands of "bumps" 
>  in the roads, fields, countryside, etc., that he left behind 
>  in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua...
>  
>  In Russia they have The Oligarchs. In the USA we have, 
>  among others, the Negropontes.

The both of them are a pair of assholes.  Just sayin'.

David




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