Oh yeah! I'm about to finish the Microserfs. Definately one of the books that I really connected to the protagonist. Even through that it was written in '93 and has some references that I don't get it's still one of the best. Going to read Generation X right after.

This is very sad. I've read an article about latest AMD cpu's on Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com) and discovered that my cpu is off the benchmarks list. It's even no in the bottom of the foodchain. I think it's the time to upgrade to one of those brand and shiny Athlon64 cpus! My poor Athlon 1.4Ghz baby. I'll have to feed it to the fishes ( Read more... )

I'm pro the idea of defining people by their dream Jeopardy! categories. Just like Douglas Coupland does in Mircoserfs. I must tell you, I'm really mesmerized by this book. If I was a Jeopardy! contestant, my seven dream categories would be ( Read more... )

I have a theory. The subconcioussness is responsible for psuedo-intentional typos. Normal-regular typos are understood. It's the fingers slide by mistake to the neighboring keys because either you're typing too fast or you're just a stupid cow. Unlike these regulars, there are typos that are intentional - to some extent. I call them psuedo- ( Read more... )

I had to vent out some undirected frustration a few months ago and wrote at work for 5 hours straight. I'm not sure what's it called. I blamed it on rediscovering how much fun it is to write with a fountain pen. See, I dug out this old fountain pen in my old highschool stuff in one of the boxes that was in the cheap bookcase in my room. Been using ( Read more... )

I've been reading this great book Microserfs by Douglas Coupland and realised that it would be a great to write a journal. So here I am. Staring at a blank screen of 0 entries. Well, not anymore.