Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:43:26 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Sad news
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com> 3/9/2008 1:27 PM >>>
>At 3/9/2008 12:28 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>Gygax ... NY Times ... Flowchart
>><http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/03/09/opinion/09opart2.ready.html=
>
>Well, it looks somewhat like a flowchart...but has the same
>relationship that the cargo cult airplanes did to real
>airplanes.  I.e. they are only the same if you are an ignorant
>primitive with no real understanding...or a NY Times "journalist",
>which appears to be pretty much the same thing.

Actually the NY Times didn't use the word flowchart, you might want to =
talk to Cory Doctorow who posted it on BoingBoing with this headline: =
""Flowchart: How D&D is a gateway drug to every flavor of nerdiness"

I thought it was amusing.  But then I'm easily amused.

mjw