Tetris was originally designed as a training tool for late Soviet-era transport interests. The idea was to reduce shipping costs by training load masters to improve the density of packing freight cars, container ships, and trucks.
This is all covered in my book, Shit I Made Up About The Russian Software Industry.
rev_sanchez, Slashdot, comment posted on Feb 26 2008
Let me tell you why I’m no fan of the middle class. Nothing middle is all that great. Middle class, Middle Ages, Middle East...they’re trouble, all of them. Upper class, lower class, pick a side! You get in the middle...crushed like grapes! (Colbert 2008).
Life should be made as difficult as possible...so that the victims might develop more character (Thompson ca. 1968-1976).
The hymns of praise of the few became the curses of the many (Lang 1927).
I have a natural and baffling attraction to other people...who hate other people. It's just that loners aren't the typical egofreaks you'd usually meet, wasting your time, helplessly clamoring for attention (Ruiha 2003).
Torrent: Metropolis (1927) - Moroder version (1984)
Tagline: "The hymns of praise of the few became the curses of the many."
- Γαλενω Γαλισια
- My true home is here in Simancas where Pyrenees joy bursts into air like wind carries Spain's oceanic light. In this place the moon wolf cries at nightfall in a voice of hunger. The sky moves like weeping blankets of folding white snow. Rain falls in silver thread and feeds our valley of farmland and silent homes with smile. Here is where the conquistador spirit is born, set free from the edge of shore, and like a woman's sunlit beauty, is captured and carried away by the warm ebb and flow of fragrant word.
