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On 16 June 02011 with 4 comments

InterAction Magazine
Ken and Roberta Williams provide PDFs of every issue of Sierra Newsletter / Sierra Magazine / InterAction, from June 1981–Spring 1999. Not that anybody much cares about them past 1992-ish.
Wikipedia: Hundred twenty-eighth note
Turns out they're a thing. Beethoven used them, as did Mozart. Much like the entire skill of drumming, I imagine that I lack the ability to play these.
Wall Street Journal: Stray Cat Strut—Woman Beats IRS
Good news for dedicated animal fosterers: the IRS is allowing charitable deductions for expenses related to caring for critters for non-profit agencies.

4 Comments

I actually learned Sonata Patethique in high school. Well, at least the first two movements. It’s been a very long while, but I still remember how impossible that run was (it’s the image in the Wikipedia entry).

Posted by John Athayde on 17 June 2011 @ 7am

Just had huge nostalgiagasm with that Sierra link. Time to go to the attic and dig out some floppies!

Posted by Jason Inofuentes on 17 June 2011 @ 8am

Past 1992 Sierra was still making the Quest for Glory games, and I happen to think that the 4th one in 1994 was the best. The Gabriel Knight games were also really good and those were post-92 as I recall. I’d agree that the overall creative quality of their output started dropping within a few years of 92. ‘Rasier’ in QFG2 is actually an anagram of ‘Sierra’, which was Lori Ann Cole’s passive-aggressive commentary on what it was like to work at Sierra by 1992.

Posted by Jackson Landers on 17 June 2011 @ 1pm

OMG! My cat hording is finally going to pay off!

Posted by tx2vadem on 17 June 2011 @ 10pm

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