Fun catch up this morning.

Feh on the IRS, Maria. I've got a situation with them too that I've been putting off dealing with.

Yay Nora! That's so awesome.

More cyberpunk recs anyone? I was all excited to see them but then realized I've read most of those. I've pimped Virtual Light before as an entry book, and it's one of those I go back to more than Gibson's others. I was thinking yesterday when I was wandering a bookstore that I really wish the SciFi sections were better organized. Organized at all, really. I end up scanning the spines and guessing from the art whether I'm looking at what kind of fantasy, futurefic, etc. There really should be some division there.

Oh - I just finished William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, part of which involves relationships built through an online posting board. Hee. Quite good, and more centered in the now than some cyberpunk.

I got an e-mail from sj at about 1 this morning which I just read, having been in dreamland at 1 this morning..

The doctors think it was an ocular migraine and nothing really to worry about.

So, all is well.

Ah, I had the ocular migraines years ago. Very odd experience. Spent a fortune to assure I wasn't going blind.

Oh, poor sj! Glad it was something fairly easily fixable.

DEENA! Did you get my message? I'll try to call during my break today. Mwah!

Oh, that's a relief.

One of Aidan's therapists had one come on while he was there at the sight center. It seemed very strange.

I bought a new cordless telephone so I could use a headset when I'm talking to a client and have my hands free. I hate the stupid thing. You can't control the volume of the ring or the voices, and when someone leaves a message it sounds an ear-piercing beep every 3 minutes or so.

I think I'm going to kill it today, right after I plug the old phone back in.

eta: erm, yes. I got your message. What a funny x-post.

Glad sj is all good.

Beej has a new tag.

Does Snow Crash count as cyber-punk? It's very cyber, and a bit punk. And definitely a fantastic read.

I think it counts as cyber-punk, on 1.7 seconds of reflection.

Nora, you made me want my Nana back, not that I ever don't, but grandmothers totally get it. Your grandmother is wise, discerning, completely right, and rocks.

Amen!

She knows...God only knows how she knows, but she knows.

Well, when Tom and I moved in together (not married), there was a bit of a wonder about what to say to Grandma about it. The sex before marriage thing, or co-habitation, is not really her reality. I just figured that she'd ignore what she needed to ignore, and denial is a wonderful thing. It turnded out, my dad came up to Tom at some family function we'd gone to CT for, and said all covert, "Grandma knows... and she's OK with it!"

Cute!

Grandmas know all!

The hell?

Of course Snow Crash is cyberpunk.

The question is whether Cryptonomicon is cyberpunk.