This being a U.S. federal holiday on a Monday, a technically-fun diversion might be in order.

I found an enjoyable distraction in accounts of the original role-playing-game (RPG) on computers: Colossal Cave Adventure [*].  It was written by Will Crowther [♢] in the late 1970s.  He was a computer programmer at the prestigious federal technical contractor Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN), and also an experienced caver & rock-climber, who was involved in the mapping of the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System in Kentucky [#].

Nowadays, quite an irony has arisen: Altho' Crowther's highest academic achievement was a B.S. in physics from MIT, some parvenues have earned Ph.D.s in fields with names like "History of Technology", by docuмenting what Crowther and comparable programming pioneers did to solve the challenges of figuring out how to make them actually work.  And in Crowther's case, coding in FORTRAN [♣]!

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Note * : <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure>

Note ♢ : <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther_(programmer)>, which shows him as still alive (now) in his early 80s.  But <https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107235/oh184wc.pdf?sequence=1> (<https://web.archive.org/web/20180430115650/https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107235/oh184wc.pdf?sequence=1> if needed), from the the Charles Babbage Institute, Center for the History of Information Processing (U. Minn., Minneapolis) is certainly a better, i.e., more reliable & detailed, reference.

Note ♣ : Whatever was available on the DEC PDP-10 to compete with IBM FORTRAN IV (G or H).  If your only tool is a hammer, there's not much of an alternative to treating every challenge like a nail.

Note # : Cave-mapping in the mid 1970s involved survey-data-crunching computation and plotting, resulting in printed cave maps, in which the connections of passages were most important.  But that activity preceded the availability of personal computers by a decade (more-or-less).  Instead, it was performed on, ummm, highly unofficial bases in which relatively ummm, flexible personal access to institutional, organizational, or corporate computing resources was allowed to certain employees.  So it was performed, e.g., at universities, federal labs, and federal contractors, when the employer's computers could be claimed to be more-or-less idle.

I received an inspiration, which evokes a liturgically important feast in exactly 1 week: Finding of the True Cross [✞]!  Might that be the basis of a Catholic computer game?  Or even a feature-length movie!?

Sigh.  Either it wasn't really inspiration from God, or I simply glanced too quickly at my Traditional Catholic Calendar.  The correct dates:

The 3rd of May was called the feast of the Invention [i.e., Finding] of the Cross, and it commemorated in a special manner Saint Helena's discovery of the sacred wood of the Cross; the 14th of September, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, commemorated above all the circuмstances in which Heraclius recovered from the Persians the True Cross, which they had carried off.

It's worth noting that the upcoming Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross is the basis date for determining the autumn ember days for each year.

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Note ✞ : Fernand Cabrol 1908: "The True Cross".  The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 4.    <https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04529a.htm#section3>.