Monday
Melrose Place night tonight. We double-clicked onto the "BRAIN CANDY" mode. We're all addicts.
We like to pretend our geek house is actually Melrose Place.
Tonight Abe said, "I wonder what would happen if we all started randomly going nonlinear like the show' characters. What would happen if our personalities became divorced from cause and effect?"
"We could take turns going psycho," said Bug.
Susan, writing the words D-U-R-A-N/D-U-R-A-N on the proxemial phalanges of her fingers, said, "You already are psycho, Bug. That doesn't count."
Susan read aloud from the Habdbook of Highway Engineering:
"Improperly installed or unwarranted signals can result in the following conditions:
- Excessive delay
- Disobedience of the signal indications
- Use of less adequate routes to avoid the signal
- Increase of accident frequency ..."
She paused and looked at the fire for a while. " I wonder if this guy is alive and married?"
Microserfs is not about Microsoft--it's about programmers who are searching for lives. A hilarious but frighteningly real look at geek life in the nineties, Coupland's book manifests a peculiar sense of how technology affects the human race and how it will continue to affect all of us. Microserfs is the hilarious journal of Dan, an ex-Microsoft programmer who, with his coder comrades, is on a quest to find purpose in life. This isn't just fodder for techies. The thoughts and fears of the not-so-stereotypical characters are easy for any of us to relate to, and their witty conversations and quirky view of the world make this a surprisingly thought-provoking book.
"... just think about the way high-tech cultures purposefully protract out the adolescence of their employees well into their late 20s, if not their early 30s," muses one programmer. "I mean, all those Nerf toys and free beverages! And the way tech firms won't even call work 'the office,' but instead, 'the campus'. It's sick and evil." END
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