The Trademark Alligator: How a new team did it right and still got caught.
The Restaurant Alligator: The information flopped around the office for weeks.
Surf Alligators live within the cusps of breaking technology waves.
The Mailbox Alligator: He sent it to an unknown person and wanted it back... before it was read.
The Feedback Alligator: It's mottled skin boasts an Escher-like pattern of lines and marks. When the tail wags this alligator, all hell breaks loose, and multimedia contracts can be severely strained or lost altogether.
The Credit Alligator usually appears late in a multimedia project and has nothing to do with MasterCard or Visa.
The TooBusy Alligators actually comprise a family of red-eyed uglies: VoiceMail Alligators, In-A-Meeting Alligators, and their sad cousins, Allnight Alligators.
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
...Diane Setterfield, from The Thirteenth Tale
Some years ago, after completing a book about HyperCard for Que, I swore never to write another. Writing a book is much like childbirth, I believe. In the beginning, it gestates slowly, usually over a few months or even years. Then it ramps up inexorably and quickly toward deadline, until all attention is focused upon the delivery itself, and the pain and workload are great. Editors cry, "Push." Afterwards, you remember it was rough, but memories of the pain itself become diffused, and one is only too easily persuaded to do it again.
