I have read a lot. Pynchon's imagery is overdrawn and forced (ESPECIALLY in Gravity's shit-eating Rainbow) He is obviously a scared person (see Vineland) I haven't read the Crying of Lot 49. WHY do people keep comparing people to Pynchon? Writers write, Pynchon TRIES to write, and apparently Stephenson PROMOTES what he writes. Try William Vollman, but I'm not promising everything. John Barthes The SotWeed Factor was a joy, but the Floating Opera was not. The hot literature right now is coming out of India anyway. See the recent issue of the Economist for a couple of REAL reviews. The reviewer obviously could not remove his lips from the base of Neal's *ock (can I say that, is this cable?) long enough to take a good hard look and what seems to amount to little more than pretentious pop trash. Coding Basic since he was 15? Am I supposed to be impressed, or was his AIM to get me to laugh? I was 9. I was doing stuff on a Vic-20, a Commodore PET, the first programmable Atari box and one of my friend's had a Sinclair.
Life can be vicious and rude, and tripe like that review brings out the worst in me. Pynchon is a waste of time.
Are you trying to say there is more to life than work and computers and family?
Nawwwww. Couldn't be. Where would they keep the RAM? (Feed it to the Oracle)
Pythia save us!
When that poppa paid for, once-in-a-lifetime, parade past the pews in white comes along, that sweetheart of a daughter of yours, the apple of your eye, her parent's pride and joy, will wish you hadn't just spent ten grand on recertification in the new version of C/C++/C^^^^ V.27b/Z (stroke) E
I can play golf with flat feet!!! This is SO cool.
You want a piece of paper to speak for you? I don't. I want an anarchic job market. Survival of the fittest. Sounds like you want some insurance. Old people like insurance. Hate to slice and butter bread like this...
I am speaking for a large number of very bright non-mainstream educated people when I say that it was our greatest blessing (and a curse upon the tendons in our fingers) that computing is as open as it is. It will, (let's drag our feet) eventually change, but as long as the technology keeps changing, their is no sense in trying to establish standards. That's why the bright people I know prosper in computers. I'm lucky I got in when I did. You probably are too. I do UNIX ESPECIALLY BECAUSE there is no license/cert whatever, and everywhere I go they wish they could keep me. I live in a beautiful world. My education (the only person in history who will ever get the "History of Ideas" degree from Simon's Rock/(Early)?(of Bard )?College( of Bard)?/) being unknown (super-unknown) however valuable (mountains of gold, cut diamonds, emeralds the size of your fist, and rubies that could choke a python) is like Linux (new, scary to the outside observer) and therefore tough to market.
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I knew this reviewer in college. You would have liked him.
He reviews a lot of stuff and happens to work at Digital Domain. (James Cameron's digiF/X shopola)
I have read a lot.
Pynchon's imagery is overdrawn and forced (ESPECIALLY in Gravity's shit-eating Rainbow)
He is obviously a scared person (see Vineland)
I haven't read the Crying of Lot 49.
WHY do people keep comparing people to Pynchon?
Writers write, Pynchon TRIES to write, and apparently Stephenson PROMOTES what he writes.
Try William Vollman, but I'm not promising everything. John Barthes The SotWeed Factor was a joy, but the Floating Opera was not.
The hot literature right now is coming out of India anyway. See the recent issue of the Economist for a couple of REAL reviews.
The reviewer obviously could not remove his lips from the base of Neal's *ock (can I say that, is this cable?) long enough to take a good hard look and what seems to amount to little more than pretentious pop trash.
Coding Basic since he was 15? Am I supposed to be impressed, or was his AIM to get me to laugh?
I was 9. I was doing stuff on a Vic-20, a Commodore PET, the first programmable Atari box and one of my friend's had a Sinclair.
Life can be vicious and rude, and tripe like that review brings out the worst in me. Pynchon is a waste of time.
Are you trying to say there is more to life than work and computers and family?
Nawwwww. Couldn't be. Where would they keep the RAM? (Feed it to the Oracle)
Pythia save us!
When that
poppa paid for,
once-in-a-lifetime,
parade past the pews in white
comes along,
that sweetheart of a daughter of yours,
the apple of your eye,
her parent's pride and joy,
will wish you hadn't just spent ten grand on recertification in the new version of C/C++/C^^^^ V.27b/Z (stroke) E
I can play golf with flat feet!!! This is SO cool.
You want a piece of paper to speak for you? I don't. I want an anarchic job market. Survival of the fittest.
Sounds like you want some insurance. Old people like insurance.
Hate to slice and butter bread like this...
I am speaking for a large number of very bright non-mainstream educated people when I say that it was our greatest blessing (and a curse upon the tendons in our fingers) that computing is as open as it is. It will, (let's drag our feet) eventually change, but as long as the technology keeps changing, their is no sense in trying to establish standards. That's why the bright people I know prosper in computers. I'm lucky I got in when I did. You probably are too. /(Early)?(of Bard )?College( of Bard)?/) being unknown (super-unknown) however valuable (mountains of gold, cut diamonds, emeralds the size of your fist, and rubies that could choke a python) is like Linux (new, scary to the outside observer) and therefore tough to market.
I do UNIX ESPECIALLY BECAUSE there is no license/cert whatever, and everywhere I go they wish they could keep me. I live in a beautiful world. My education (the only person in history who will ever get the "History of Ideas" degree from Simon's Rock
I like Finnegan's Wake and the Game of Go
I code Perl and I like it.