Comment Neal Stephenson. (Score 2) 147
OK. I admit it. I'm a Neal Stephenson zealot. I've read Snow Crash. I've read Snow Crash *aloud*. To other people. Without their consent. Zodiac, Diamond age, ingested.
But seeing that essay linked through Slashdot is really a kicker. Finding out Neal Stephenson is as oddly fixated on Linux as I am is like walking into my regular corner bar and finding out that, previously unbeknownst to anyone, Metallica is playing there that night because they know the owner from years ago and by the way James Hetfield might need to crash at my place tonight if its OK with me.
I love it.
And you know you're reading this, too, Neal. No self-respecting Linux pseudogeek does not read Slashdot at least on occasion. And no writer is enough lacking in vanity to not read his critics.
You, sir, are the tits. Good luck with the new book.
Many thanks,
Chris
But seeing that essay linked through Slashdot is really a kicker. Finding out Neal Stephenson is as oddly fixated on Linux as I am is like walking into my regular corner bar and finding out that, previously unbeknownst to anyone, Metallica is playing there that night because they know the owner from years ago and by the way James Hetfield might need to crash at my place tonight if its OK with me.
I love it.
And you know you're reading this, too, Neal. No self-respecting Linux pseudogeek does not read Slashdot at least on occasion. And no writer is enough lacking in vanity to not read his critics.
You, sir, are the tits. Good luck with the new book.
Many thanks,
Chris
