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Geek Of The Day: Neural Cowboy |
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 Nickname: Neural Cowboy
Real Name: Richard
Age: 61
Resides: Mikwaukee, Wisconsin
Occupation: Author, professional speaker, sometime
consultant
Favourite Website: Cryptome
Favourite Game Of All Time: Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Universe (Top Geek: Infocom & Scott Adams text adventures ruled!)
What Are You Working On Right Now: A novel, The Necessity for Invention, which weaves together narrative threads about a priest who suspects the death of a good friend was not really suicide, hackers Don Coyote and Pancho Sanchez who seem to have a relationship to cyberspace analogous to that of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to books, a spy in deep cover who must build the simulation of a life while waiting for instructions, and new age chanellers who access "discarnate spirits" through automatic writing, circles of light, and the like.
Current Wallpaper/Screensaver: great nebula of Orion
How Many Computers Do You Have: 4, I guess, a Sony VAIO laptop and 3 Gateways, one running XP, one running Win 95, and one running Red Hat Linux.
What's So Special About Your Computer: Full of terrific stuff, books, posters, notes from people, links to the many parts of my life.
Geekiest Moment: Still waiting for it!
When Did You First Realize You Were A Geek: When you asked me to fill out this form.
If I Was A Program I'd Be: An online multiplayer game.
Favourite Quote: "Forget it, Jake-- it's Chinatown."
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The Truth Behind The Geek (*creative liberties taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
Richard, who has given keynote speeches in Israel, is--after only 18 years-- just about ready to tackle Zork II. Richard thinks that the face of computers changed forever when graphics were introduced into text adventures. "If they have pictures, they're no longer text adventures!"
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