tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951592145893047590.post9110214019474536074..comments2023-10-07T04:42:45.232-04:00Comments on New York Gamedev: Café people: Creepy sleeping guyWadjet Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06999082508434214753noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951592145893047590.post-63127308780005397672010-10-10T10:52:34.564-04:002010-10-10T10:52:34.564-04:00I would have braced myself against the wall and mo...I would have braced myself against the wall and moved his chair out a couple of inches so I could get plugged in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951592145893047590.post-29242377188211265032010-10-02T02:00:02.727-04:002010-10-02T02:00:02.727-04:00Come to think of it, if you had woken him up and o...Come to think of it, if you had woken him up and offered him a coffee perhaps you'd have discovered he was a modern-day Joe Gould! Guess we'll never know... though having played Blackwell Convergence, maybe it's better that way :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03639266140482254211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951592145893047590.post-63551585380491131322010-10-01T23:07:36.432-04:002010-10-01T23:07:36.432-04:00I would have just treated him like any other perso...I would have just treated him like any other person, tried to plug around him, if necessary I'd have said, "Excuse me, sir, can I plug this in?" And heck, maybe I'd have offered to buy him a refill on his coffee. If he bothered me, I'd have put on headphones and gotten down to work on my laptop. I don't think I'd have been driven off, but then, I wasn't there...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951592145893047590.post-45520042977647466702010-10-01T17:13:49.746-04:002010-10-01T17:13:49.746-04:00Unless I'd find it unpleasant to sit next to t...Unless I'd find it unpleasant to sit next to the guy, I would probably just have worked in battery mode for a couple of hours (possibly "forgetting" to turn off the speakers and hope the Windows boot-up jingle woke him up :)). If the staff still hadn't gotten rid of him by the time the battery ran out, it wouldn't be a place I'd want to return to anyway.<br /><br />You know, Dave, I've actually been hoping for another one of your coffee shop anecdotes just to get an opportunity to share this vaguely related but brilliant TED talk by Steven Johnson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0af00UcTO-cUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03639266140482254211noreply@blogger.com