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As I was shuffling piles of stuff from one place to another around#

Thu Nov 22 09:14:35 2001

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As I was shuffling piles of stuff from one place to another around the house last night, I found the book that I'd forgotten I bought on Saturday. "Cosmonaut Keep", Ken MacLeod. I have this weird feeling that he's taking the piss somewhat:

"What's with the fucking news", someone's saying [...] "I can't get CNN, can't even get Slashdot ..."

This particular clique aren't all programmers. Sometime half a century ago, back in the nineties, their social circle overlapped that of the Scottish literary intelligentsia.

Hmm

  1. Is this man an EdLUG member? I think we should be told
  2. If people are still reading Slashdot in 2045, I want a new career now, please. That's just too grim.

Still, I laughed.