Big Sky Cairn

You have probably never heard of Wes Cherry. But I bet you’ve played his game. Wes Cherry is the inventor of a little game with a big heart… so to speak. He’s the guy behind Windows Solitaire - the free game installed on Windows machines.

Turns out, he’s a pretty funny guy. In a really anti-social nerdy kind of way that I dig.

Update: I got interested and did some more reading.  Sounds like Solitaire and Minesweeper were included in early Windows OSs in order to teach people how to use a mouse.  Remember, that technology that we now take for granted was brand new and a little non-intuitive for people used to looking at their hand for movement.  Solitaire taught drag-and-drop.  Minesweeper taught left and right click.

Oh, and if we’d started drilling back when these programs were being written, we wouldn’t be dependent on foreign oil today.  Zing.

Why did you have to go and ruin an otherwise fine and interesting article with that last zinger? Took the fun out of it.