BRAIN ... TURNING ... INTO ... CHEESE!
Nov. 14th, 2002 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaSomething must be done about this before I turn into the world's most torpid postal worker. Sitting here watching three empty ticket queues, reading too much LJ and waiting to feck around with machinery this evening before fucking offwardly to pub.
There is that copy of Learning Perl in my desk drawer ...
What You Make It by Michael Marshall Smith is proving an effective evening braincell jumpstarter.
Update, 5:48pm: Boss called, I told him I'd had 0 to do for the past five hours. Tomorrow we will start discussing what there is for me to do at other sites. w00t.
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Date: 2002-11-14 08:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-11-14 08:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-11-14 08:59 am (UTC)that book is really good - the first story i remember i read in an anthology some years ago, and i really loved it, but had forgotten it was by michael marshall smith, who is one of my favourite authors. so when i rediscovered it in 'what you make it', i was quite pleased :)
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Date: 2002-11-14 09:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2002-11-14 09:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-11-14 09:11 am (UTC)That would be because the man is a minor deity. I haven't read What You Make It, but someone insisted I read, to the point of buying it for me, Only Forward and I fell in love.
With the book, not the person. It's rare a book manages to turn my head inside out like that. I thought Spares was excellent too, but you always keep a soft spot for your first love, don't you?
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Date: 2002-11-14 09:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-11-14 09:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-11-14 09:22 am (UTC)Hyuk. Thought you needed something to do in your boredom...
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Date: 2002-11-14 09:28 am (UTC)Pubbing this evening?
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Date: 2002-11-14 09:35 am (UTC)You?
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Date: 2002-11-14 09:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-11-14 10:05 am (UTC)Mind you, the ending comfortably out-classes Iain Banks in the Seriously Fucked Up stakes. Ho yus.
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Date: 2002-11-14 10:15 am (UTC)And while I'm recommending things, why not try something by Charlie Stross?
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Date: 2002-11-14 10:30 am (UTC)Um. Personally - assuming I'm interpreting this correctly - I would just start with Programming Perl.
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Date: 2002-11-14 05:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-11-14 05:05 pm (UTC)I am, of course, a muppet - said credits are not at the beginning of the book, but they are at the end.
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Date: 2002-11-14 05:07 pm (UTC)The company admin does have the O'Reilly Perl CD set sitting on his desk opposite ...
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Date: 2002-11-14 09:31 pm (UTC)Bizarrely the publishers of "The Straw Men" have shortened his name to "Michael Marshall" and have a blurb on the back of the book claiming it is his first novel. The inside cover notes confirm it is MMS.
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Date: 2002-11-14 11:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-11-15 03:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2002-11-15 06:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-11-15 06:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-11-15 06:04 am (UTC)It's like the military: hurry up and wait. DO STUFF! NOW! ... Wait.
It's Friday, and my boss has run out of things to do as well :-)
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Date: 2002-11-15 06:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
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