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Monthly Archives: August 2010
ElectricRocket notes that one of the cool things about giving blood is that it’s one of the few times a nurse will give you cookies and tell you not to exercise.
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ElectricRocket has a headset now and can feel the conference-call-crick-in-the-neck fading away.
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ElectricRocket’s wife reports that amongst the various depictions of his classmates’ summer vacations on the wall at curriculum night, our son’s was the one of screaming people being chased by jellyfish.
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ElectricRocket shaves the face of the gentlemen who never thereafter are heard of again.
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Very Happy Birthdays to Heidi Blackwell and Justin Lucas! You young punks, you! Get off my lawn.
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Book Log – Super Sad True Love Story
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Okay, this is basically Brave New World, modernized.
Told through the medium of diary entries, emails (“globalteens”, a future FaceBook/MySpace), and IMs, a 39 year old book reader (an offensively smelly hobby in this dystopia) weathers the end of America and the wooing of a 20-something woman.
Some of his future-projections are a little hokey. He merges 7 or 8 current corporations into unwieldily named conglomerates, like ChaseBPMcDonalds or some such thing, which I get, but I think is weak world-building.
“Apparats” (copious umlauts excluded) are omnipresent iPhones; No one talks (or “verbals”) much, mostly they sit together and text. This seems right on.
All in all, this is a fine summer read, alternating between whimsical and believable futurism.
ElectricRocket gave up on Linux for now. Can someone tell him where he needs to turn in his geek badge?
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ElectricRocket reserves the right to refuse service to anyone.
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ElectricRocket recommends “A Confederacy of Dunces” at Theatrical Outfit: A faithful adaptation of the book with a very funny cast. Kudos to Richard Garner, Scott Warren, and the rest of the crew and cast!
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