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ah, yes, there are a few:Frank Conroy 's Body and soul (Corps et âme)Douglas Coupland 's MicroserfsH.
Microserfs by Douglas Copeland is another favorite, mainly because I relate to the characters so well.
The Bookseller's Test
Hi! And welcome to my Bookseller's Test. So called because I worked in the business for many years, and find that my head is stuffed with all sorts of... ...
My review of Douglas Coupland's Microserfs
Enter the novel Microserfs, published in 1995. ... – the answer is what separates the Microserfs from
the Cyberlords.
Brains, tech and memory
Douglas Coupland, in 1995's Microserfs, had
one of his characters stating that pretty soon, the amount of
information stored outside of humanity's collective consciousness
would be larger than that held within our combined brains.
Joke Of The Day:
Career
Limiting Move (CLM) - Used among microserfs to describe an
ill-advised activity.
My brain feels like mush.
And yes, I often use the Microserfs
trick where I put subtitles on during a movie and fast-forward the
fucker.
Cryptonomicon and OK Cupid.
Sort of
a cross between Gravity's Rainbow and Microserfs--it's got mathy
elements and silicon valley culture elements, with some ww2-era
adventure, strange comedy, and overarching conspiracy stuff thrown
in.
Obama vs. McCain
htmI
got it from Douglas Coupland's book Microserfs, where it is
employed in the design of a t-shirt ridiculing IBM: "Weak as a
kitten, dumb as a sack of hammers"See how useful links are yet?
Dear nice guys: shut the fuck up already
Hmm, Microserfs is a good read on how
essentially decent, capable people can fall into a lack of an
amazingly interesting life, but I digress.
Dont you just hate the nerds who created the windows OS?
The problem is hackers figured out how the microserfs
create viruses, now the viruses are all over the web.
Songs / Books / Movies / Etc. that make you teary eyed...
Here are
some other's of mine:The Iron Giant (movie)Sky Blue - Peter Gabriel
(song)Microserfs - Douglas Coupland (book)(yes.
Was windows created by nerds with aspergers syndrome?
Like I said windows was created by microserfs who had formerly been
hackers.
