Tombstone

Well really it is a pic from SciFoo, that we noted earlier, much thanks to Bee!

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Here is an interesting update to the Amazon page, a couple of videos one of Neal reading a passage from the book and Neal discussing the title and environment around the new book.  Very interesting.

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I was FINALLY getting around to reading Y The Last Man.  And right there on page 9 on the bookshelf (under the poo poo flinging monkey) one of the titles listed was Snow Crash!  You can check it out for yourself here.

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Now here is the lastest sighting that I know of, Neal was spotted at SciFoo Camp.  Neal gets a passing mention on Backreaction, where the focus is more theoretical physics than Neal-tracking, but they do fill the role very well.

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At 43 Folders there are pt1, pt2, and pt3 of a series about working and priorities by Merlin Mann.  They do speak the truth and reference our favorite author Neal Stephenson, and his unique views on correspondence, e-mail and the like; forgive me as I quote:

The point, from my perspective, is that Stephenson possesses the man-sized pant stones to declare precisely what the people who enjoy his work should expect from him. And, in so doing, he has drawn a clear line that some might find hard to love, but that is very easy to see, understand, and respect.

I mean anyone of of us (fellow Tombstone followers) has ran out to the Internet found that infamous site and read that sending an e-mail to Mr. Stephenson is not going to result in much of anything really.  And then you feel crushed unable to share with him how cool he is…but I digress.  You can certainly respect someone who lays it out up front, that here is where I am and now let me get back to work.  Those 900+ page books don’t write themselves you know.  It is good to see that while you may have initially found Neal’s stance alienating really it says, here is what I do and to create the BEST possible results here is what I need (or do not need) from you.  So feel free to use this as a “therapeutic” time to release your pent up Neal correspondence dreams in the comments.

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Over at Valleywag their very special corespondent Paul Boutin, has a non-spolier version of his first impressions from the book, with promise of a full review on the release date.  It is comforting to know that other worlds’ share our collective obsession with distraction and misdirection… I bet you probably could classify this as only adding to that problem…ahh nevermind that point I was about to make.

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