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.

Oh dear. By the time you get to Cryptonomicon, classifying Stephensen's stuff as ANYTHING, even Science Fiction, is hard. It's historical-science-drama-action-fiction. That holds even more for Quicksilver et al.

But I'd say that Cryptonomicon is definitely not cyberpunk. Not enough punk. Not enough cyber in the sense of the metaverse-style cyber, either.

Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is something of a precursor to the genre, and is otherwise an excellent book.

I actually read that in college, for my Sci-Fi Cinema class. (Seriously.)

It's weird to be relieved that sj has migraines, but it's certainly better thn some of the alternatives that sprang to mind, so i'm gonna go with the relief.

There's an anthology of cyberpunk short stories from the 90s called Mirrorshades, edited by Bruce Sterling, I think. I like him as an editor, though I don't like the stories he writes. It was supposed to be a manifesto for the cyberpunk movement, iirc.

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