[Sidney San Martín]

I'm also trying to edge back into CD, and haven't been able to read the many pages of posts. (I was away from internet for a week before now.)

This may have been said and is probably wrong, but somehow "obsessed with a shovel's show" makes me think of a shovel's capacity. Maybe you gain an advantage from large shovel capacity, trying to pick up many tiny gamepieces which all "want" to be in the shovel? Then again, that would cause cries of "there's a flurbie stuck in the transmission!" (Assuming they had any chance of being called flurbies).

"Seeing green" does make me fear the CMUCam, but I could get lucky and have it be something else.