kartooner

I had a few nick­names in High School and in Col­lege. Among them, my favorites were “Won­der­bread” and “Spe­cial K”. It was junior year, dur­ing Phys­i­cal Edu­ca­tion, when I was first deemed Won­der­bread. Dur­ing an exhaus­tive game of bas­ket­ball with my buddies, (…)

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While I always try to write mean­ing­ful arti­cles (or posts, as they are referred to in the blog­ging realm) deal­ing with obser­va­tions and anec­dotes on life, some­times the occas­sional “What Hap­pened to Me this Week” post slips through. I fig­ure this is (…)

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A few years ago I worked for an amuse­ment park named Cas­tle Park. The fol­low­ing is a rec­ol­lec­tion of my expe­ri­ence work­ing for the “Park”.

In the clas­sic Lucasarts com­puter game, Sam and Max Hit the Road, one of the loca­tions you visit is the World’s Largest Ball of Twine, a land­mark of epic pro­por­tions main­tained by a teleken­tic repair man with Tourette’s syn­drome. Like I said, classic game. (…)

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