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Matthew Melmon

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I’m never sure if these should be in first person or third. I’ll use third, because it’s Art!™ One of the first professional game testers in the world, Matt sold his Electronic Arts stock before he should have, then followed a liberal arts degree from Occidental College with a stint at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design - only to end up in the IT department of a startup spreadsheet database company. Then he worked with IBM RS6000s at Apple while Apple was going out of business.

He left Apple for Santa Clara Law School on the first day Steve Jobs returned. Who knew what was coming? Nobody. Partying like it was 1999 in 1999, he started a company delivering personalized music through radio station websites. “The performance right is the
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Prophetess Of Numbers

Today, YouTube informed me that Iceland refuses to borrow English words such as "computer." They instead insist on coming up with their own words.

"Tolva" (for computer) is a combination of two native words: one is "numbers" and the other can be translated as "seer" or "prophetess" (or perhaps most thematically "oracle"), making a computer literally the "oracle of numbers."

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