Monday, March 06, 2006

Bruce Sterling:

You know what's even weirder and geekier than the scene here at Emerging Tech? Clifford Pickover's version of a myspace crowd, that's what's weirder and geekier.

Ye Gods in heaven, just look at these people. Imagine being stuck in a convention hotel with them. Imagine if they had their own offshore data haven.


A convention hotel! Yes, that's precisely what we need!

3 comments:

Carol Maltby said...

How long's it going to take him to get to Ursula Le Guin, or any other woman over the age of 40?

Is there some kind of Middle-aged Women Cooties that science is only now discovering?

Mac said...

The lack of over-40 women is becoming increasingly conspicuous. Sooner or later we'll get one.

Carol Maltby said...

I wonder if he can read Le Guin's The Space Crone without backing away brandishing crosses and garlic?

http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~rho/interests/other/essays/crones.html

On Halloween do people dress up as Eleanor Roosevelt to scare him?

Miz Butler, she dead. Better take her off the end of the list. Besides, she was a menopausal lesbian.

Some of the guys are so homely that you know when they were little, their mamas had to tie porkchops around their necks to get the dog to play with them.