old writings ... tetris

another snippet written in feb 1997 ...

Time ticked away as he sat playing Tetris. Ten o’clock. Eleven o’clock. Midnight. One was approaching rapidly.

“This game must be some sort of governmental experiment,” he though. “What else could incite such a waste of time for mindless reasons. It’s not even that entertaining. And if it wasn’t back enough that they re-released it for the Gameboy back in the early nineties, they had to release it again for these supercomputers capable of a hell of a lot more. As if wasting brainpower isn’t enough, technology must also be wasted.”