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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄> That first impression, back at the age of seventeen, was nothing more than that—the gut reaction of a post-adolescent Army brat who had been on his own for about three weeks. His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the whole world—samurai movies and the Macintosh—and he understood them far, far too well. It was a worldview with no room for someone like Juanita. —Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash <For me, add Godzilla movies. <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/snowcrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snowcrash</a>

Phillip :usa_distress:This line from <a href="https://social.lol/tags/SnowCrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SnowCrash</a> stuck out to me> we’re working on refining our management techniques so that we can control that information no matter where it is - on our hard disks or even inside the programmers’ heads. Seems like something big tech would stumble over themselves to get ahold of today 😬

Phil DavisWhat about tech writers, Mr. Stephenson? "All technical devices require documentation […], but this stuff can only be written by the techies who are doing the actual product development, and they absolutely hate it, always put the dox question off to the very last minute. Then they type up some material […], run it off on the laser printer, send the departmental secretary out for a cheap binder, and that's that." Snow Crash, ch. 48<a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/technicalWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technicalWriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/techWriterLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#techWriterLife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/writeTheDocs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writeTheDocs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/snowCrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snowCrash</a>

BBC Micro Bot :mastodon:It's sad the term 'Metaverse' somehow got coopted by web3 grifters and then Facebook <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SnowCrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SnowCrash</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@screwtape" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@screwtape</a> <a href="https://social.jlamothe.net/profile/me" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@me</a> <a href="https://social.sachachua.com/@sacha" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sacha</a> <a href="https://social.coop/@cwebber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cwebber</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/snowcrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snowcrash</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/gargoyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gargoyle</a>

cw<a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/randomthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#randomthoughts</a> - <a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gaming</a> - trying to play <a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/starcitizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#starcitizen</a> is how you learn <a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/patience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#patience</a> and <a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/understanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#understanding</a>. - <a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/elitedangerous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elitedangerous</a> is an adequate substitute, but after 3k+ hours, its hard to be engrossed anymore. - <a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/sundayscaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sundayscaries</a> obsoleted by last week's distraction-free work-shopping with my team as we build out our capability and maturity. <a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/anxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anxiety</a> is now excitement. I actually did 5 hours of work today in preparation for the coming week, by choice. Its probably been 10+ years since I chose that end of the work/life balance scale on a Sunday. - peppermint and chamomile <a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/tea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tea</a> keeps the heart, stomach, and mind <a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/calm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#calm</a> - <a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/cryptonomicon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cryptonomicon</a> by Neal Stephenson is more enjoyable than <a href="https://social.seedoubleyou.me/tags/snowcrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SnowCrash</a>, probably due to the history and non-apocalyptic relatability.

shplinkRe-reading <a href="https://c.im/tags/neuromancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neuromancer</a> after <a href="https://c.im/tags/snowcrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snowcrash</a> ... Reality escapes. Thinking of the ol' college thing that "reality is an illusion caused by the lack of drugs and alcohol."

Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok:So in lighter news, apparently there’s a company that’s making a version of Reverend Wayne’s Pearly Gates from <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SnowCrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SnowCrash</a> because of course there’s jackholes that’ll build Torment Nexuses despite the warnings in Sumerian complaining about poor quality copper, I mean, warning us to not build the damn Torment Nexus. <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/church-startups-entrepreneurship-religion-49891861" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/business/media/church-startups-entrepreneurship-religion-49891861</a>

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