The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
Some book on DOS 5. What the hell am I doing?
Just finished The Diamond Age: or; A Young Girls’s Illustrated Primer, by Neal Stephenson. I recommend.
if you like post cyberpunk victorian future nano tech.
Some book on DOS 5. What the hell am I doing?
Something awesome. [:)]
when i was working at my old job some guy i was working with was complaining about how he had to learn dos commands in his networking class.
i still knew most of them 
Just finished The Diamond Age: or; A Young Girls’s Illustrated Primer, by Neal Stephenson. I recommend.
Neal Stephenson’s the shit! Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac, Interface, Cryptonomicon, are all STELLAR works. Only got a book or two into the System of the World series, or whatever it’s called- the one with Isaac Newton. Need to pick them back up.
Ever read any Harry Turtledove, catgoat?
[reply]Some book on DOS 5. What the hell am I doing?
Something awesome. [:)][/reply]
Haaahhhh. Naw, I just found it at a friends house and haven’t been able to put it down.
Computer interface these days is whatever, but seeing how older machines worked… Fuck, dude. It’s like arcane magic or something. Invoke this, execute that. DOS = Brujeria.
[reply]Just finished The Diamond Age: or; A Young Girls’s Illustrated Primer, by Neal Stephenson. I recommend.
Neal Stephenson’s the shit! Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac, Interface, Cryptonomicon, are all STELLAR works. Only got a book or two into the System of the World series, or whatever it’s called- the one with Isaac Newton. Need to pick them back up.
Ever read any Harry Turtledove, catgoat?[/reply]
i have a book called the mammoth book of alternate histories with one by harry turtledove in it, but i haven’t picked up anything by him yet. i am planning on reading snow crash next, since diamond age is the only stephenson book i read so far. also just finished nueromancer, so i have all of gibsons books to go through as well.
i read on wikipedia that someone optioned diamond age for a 6 episode miniseries in like 2006 or 2008, and then nothing ever happened from there. might be for the best, as that book is so fucking dense with detail, and the “believeability” of the world he establishes. fucking vickys, haw.
i would gladly take harry turtledove recommendations
, sir.
Both of Turtledove’s big alternate history series are awesome. I’d personally go with the Southern Victory series first. “How Few Remain” is the first book. The Worldwar series is great too (where aliens invade in the middle of World War II- and we put up more of a fight than they thought- they were expecting barbarians on horseback because that was what their probes showed before they got here).
You’re gonna dig Snow Crash, too. One thing about Stephenson books, they are always awesome books, up until the end, you either love or hate the endings. He’s on record as saying he doesn’t care about ending books in a way that pleases the audience, he ends them the way he wants too, whether or not we find that satisfying.
[#E0E0E0]Recently finished This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew G. Faust. Excellent account. Loved it.
Also recently read [/#E0E0E0] [#E0E0E0]Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Baumeister & Tierney. Basically they say it comes down to glucose levels… never make an important decision when you’re hungry!
Going to start Philip Roth’s [/#E0E0E0] [#E0E0E0]The Plot Against America soon.
A few new books to look out for this month and next: [/#E0E0E0] [#E0E0E0]
[/#E0E0E0][ul][li][#E0E0E0]The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker[/#E0E0E0][/li][li][#E0E0E0]Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies[/#E0E0E0][/li][li][#E0E0E0]11.22.63 by Stephen King[/#E0E0E0][/li][li][#E0E0E0]The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco[/#E0E0E0]
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Going to start Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America soon.
That’s a good one. Read another Roth, “Indignation” a couple months ago and didn’t like it nearly as much.
I just started “Tietam Brown” by Mick Foley.
So far, it’s way better than I expected a novel written by a pro wrestler to be. Worth the buck I paid for it at Goodwill, anyway.
lolita. again.
the best piece of music i have ever heard. yes, it’s a piece of text. read it aloud.
so? mi esposo and i talk about writing and music. i think he gets how writing and music really are not so different…
I wonder what music I’ll hear when I read YOUR book. For some reason I’m imagining William Hung.
some juvenile posts. al is also 53 this month. guess he wasn’t kidding way back when, when he referred to himself as “grandpa Al”. still have my own teeth and hair. still recall everything. guess i’ll look for my lap blanket now and forgive people who try so hard to minimize the importance of others and can’t accept the fact that they too are getting older.
no matter how much makeup and plastic surgery, you look exactly how you should today.
guess i’ll look for my lap blanket now and forgive people who try so hard to minimize the importance of others and can’t accept the fact that they too are getting older.
I’m not getting older.
I’m just getting awesomer.
you didn’t have an answer. have fun with your fun life.
a PM i needed to see.
you didn’t have an answer.
An answer to WHAT? You never asked a question.
Jose Saramago - Blindness
J.r.r Tolkien - The Silmarillion… having a hard time with this one…