Ian has a hitherto-unrecorded conversation regarding drawing a new Pattern in Zelazny’s original Amber series:
Dworkin: Okay, Obie, if you listen to only one thing your father says, listen to this. If you ever have to reinstall the Pattern, make sure you uninstall the old Pattern first.
Oberon: You can’t just install the new one over the old one?
Dworkin: No. I tried that with the screwed up installs I did before I got this one. It gets really messed up. Don’t believe that uninstall thing in the Jewel, either. All it does is remove the icons.
It gets better.
(Apologies to all of my readers who have no idea what this is about. On the other hand, you should be getting used to that here.)
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Ian needs to enable his comments function… so frustrating to see it there, and it not work…
I thought this was some of the best amber related humor, ever…
And, y’know, it really explains a lot. You could actually run with that whole concept …
It really does explain a lot, doesn’t it? None of this would have happened if Dworkin had just gone with an open source Pattern …
Yeah, but then he’d have had to rely on all those Chaosian artificers, all contributing their own little bit to the thing.
I think his biggest problem was giving the Pattern macro capabilities …
Ian needs to move to Movabletype, and get off frellin’ Blogger!
I have spoken.