Somehow the ‘Iranian Supreme Court’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?
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I’m trying to wrap up this thread of posts about Douglas Coupland’s “Microserfs,” one of the best books I’ve read in a long while. Suffice to say that if you are familiar at all with Microsoft and the computer and software industries, it’s an entertaining and enlightening read – not so much about the industry, although that’s in there, but about how human beings fit (and don’t fit) into the world of computers. It’s also oddly touching, which is a pleasant surprise. While the book predates weblogs by several years, it is eerily similar in format and tone to a lot of weblogs out there now, six years later.
Here’s just one of uncounted quotable passages:
Dusty said, “I think your problem is that you think everyone else is a freak except you, but everybody’s a freak – you included – and once you learn that, the World of Dating is yours.”
Q: If you could be any animal, what animal would you be?
A. You are already an animal.
(stolen from “Microserfs.”)
Having finished Douglas Coupland’s “Microserfs,” I was at Target over the weekend and saw a 1200-piece (!) tub of Legos in the toy section. I am now the proud owner of this imagination appliance. As I was paying for my purchase, the woman at the checkout said, “Would you like a gift receipt with this?” She couldn’t imagine that a husky 35-year-old man would want such a thing for himself.
“No,” I said, a little sheepishly. But only a little.
WHO is the father of Rachel’s baby?
Is it….Ross? Joey? Chandler? Chandler’s dad? Paolo? Mark? Cartman? Cartman’s mom? Officer Barbrady? The Denver Broncos?
I want to join Greenpeace.
Kerry Weaver rocks. End of story.
Fun with ASCII art:
-courtesy of the Figlet Server
Shouldn’t the leader of the free world know that it’s pronounced ‘nuclear,’ not ‘nuncular’? Is that too much to ask? Or is that just another one of his endearing quirky dumbnesses?
Fantastic casting on the 35-year-old Mrs. Landingham on The West Wing tonight. The look, the words, the voice were all perfect. How do they keep hitting it out of the park?