[source]He had a knack for pinball, knowing just how hard to bump a machine without tilting it. We’d go to arcades together and he’d win bonus games like mad. Videogames were never his thing, though he could appreciate the better ones. I remember the day I showed him Computer Baseball, a strategy game for the Apple IIe. You could pit some of the greatest teams in MLB history against each other. We played Babe Ruth’s 1927 Yankees against Jackie Robinson’s 1955 Dodgers for about an hour, and then he turned to me and said, “Never show this to me again. I like it too much, and I don’t want to lose time.”
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La Presa
por Aquileo J. Echeverria
*Publicado en Un periódico en 1889. Incluido posteriormente en la edición póstuma de Crónicas y cuentos míos, 1934.
A mi excelente amigo Juan J. Gutiérrez
Allí, donde hoy está el lavadero público, esa útilísima obra debida al celo caritativo del filantrópico Presbítero Umaña, era hace pocos años el centro de reunión de los alegres y bulliciosos muchachos de San José.
Llamábamosla “La Presa” porque en efecto hay una construida para elevar las aguas al nivel del terreno en que está colocada una maquinaría de aserrar maderas. Continue reading La Presa