D&D&Me
I know I’m still a nerd because the minutes that passed between Gary Gygax’s death and the appearance of the first gchat window announcing it to me was slightly less than the time it took me to find out about Heath Ledger. This says a lot, considering that I compensate for lapses in the knowledge of historical pop culture references (having missed out as a child and an adolescent) by being very seriously on top of mainstream celebrity gossip.
I have long sworn that my introduction to computers/text adventure/sierra/d&d at an early age was directly responsible for my discovery of corel draw/photoshop/the internet/web pages which has since led to becoming a designer of the conceptual/auto-didactic ilk. I never thought I was alone in this trajectory, but the article about Gary Gygax’s connection with contemporary electronic culture posted today in the New York Times is uncannily easy to relate to. Be sure to locate yourself on the accompanying diagram (brilliant) by Sam Potts.
