{"id":6898,"date":"2003-06-19T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/6898\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T19:31:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T00:31:38","slug":"6898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/6898\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Bradord DeLong: Fellow Minion of Sid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.07\/view.html?pg=5\" target=\"new\">column<\/a> in <i>Wired<\/i>, DeLong admits his problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the spring of 1994, I wiped the game Civilization off my office computer. I wiped it off my home PC. I wiped it off my laptop. I threw away the original disks on which it had come. It was clear to me that I had a choice: I could either have Civilization on my computers, or I could be a deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury. I could not do both. It wasn&#8217;t that my boss ordered me to &#8211; she herself played a mean game of computer solitaire. In this, I was the boss, and I had decided that with Civilization on DeLong&#8217;s hard disk, DeLong&#8217;s productivity would be unacceptably low.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I, too, have struggled against Civilization since my <a href=\"http:\/\/angelweaving.blogspot.com\" target=\"new\">esteemed spouse<\/a> convinced me to install it on my old 486.  And then Civilization II.  And now the accursed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civ3.com\" target=\"new\">Civilization III<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There have been times when I have removed it so I could better discipline myself to spend more time writing than manipulating little civilizations into conquest or other policy.  When I have had to rebuild my computers from software or hardware disaster, I have often delayed putting it back on, but the <i>la belle game sans merci<\/i> hath me in thrall (sorry, <a href=\"http:\/\/eir.library.utoronto.ca\/rpo\/display\/poem1126.html\" target=\"new\">Johnny<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I think he says something else in the piece, but I only saw the name of the game before feeling the compulsion to start a game.  The CD&#8217;s already in the drive, don&#8217;t you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this column in Wired, DeLong admits his problem: In the spring of 1994, I wiped the game Civilization off my office computer. I wiped it off my home PC. I wiped it off my laptop. I threw away the original disks on which it had come. It was clear to me that I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8110,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions\/8110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}