Croquet & Alphaworld

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Nov 7 12:18:35 UTC 2002


My fantasy is that this lady is the fabled "Miss D.D. Steel" who was 
one of the very first champion Croquet players when women finally got 
to play.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 12:55 PM +0100 11/7/02, Cees de Groot wrote:
>Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> said:
>>The documentation says quite clearly not to hit OK, but to hit cancel.
>>
>Talking about documentation, via-via I got the following feedback on the
>graphics:
>
>"you must know that the lady in the croquet picture is
>violating at least two rules that I was taught when I was a lad - (1) not to
>raise the mallet above waist level (you were meant to swing it between your
>legs, and that would make high swings impossible without some personal
>damage(!)) and (2) not to put your foot on your ball when you were sending
>your opponent off - nice picture though."
>
>Nothing important, but it's the only bit of feedback I can give as long as I
>haven't downloaded the 90Megs ;-)
>
>
>--
>Cees de Groot               http://www.cdegroot.com     <cg at cdegroot.com>
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>Cogito ergo evigilo


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