Tombstone

Not quite the Deliverator

ph5il — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:33:07 +0000

Well browsing Gizmodo and found that. There it was the Deliverator v0.3, so we are what 5 years away from pizza delivering ninjas! It is just that right now they are gaining street cred and ninja skills on mopeds in the Philippines.

If you haven’t already

ph5il — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:41:31 +0000

EOS books has a post that the paperback of Anathem available weighing in at 1008 pages. That my friends is a lot of book.

Well there is a new book but…

ph5il — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:47:32 +0000

Io9 has a story that Mr. Stephenson has just agreed to a new deal that comes with a significant sum of money and here is the but it is classified as a Thriller. Is that a big deal to you? I am still not sure if that means that the present age is creepy enough that there is more fiction and less science or it is going to be more a departure from past works and move in a new direction…I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Not quite Van Eck Phreaking, but cool none the less.

Corvar — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:03:48 +0000

While not Van Eck Phreaking, being able to eavesdrop on what is being typed in a different room by monitoring the common ground wire of the electic outlet is still cool. The BBC’s article Snooping through the power socket outlines the attack.

Research from Someone Who Knows

ph5il — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:08:45 +0000

Lisa Gold is instructing a class in Research for Writers, still time to register if you are in the Seattle area. Ms Gold is also the researcher that worked with Neal Stephenson on the Baroque Trilogy. So if that is not a ringing endorsement for her class, then here is a quote from her site from the man himself…

“Ms. Gold roams at ease through the most difficult and recondite topics, like an Indiana Jones of the world of letters.” –-Neal Stephenson

And that is pre-crystal skull Indy right there!

How many swipes would it take?

ph5il — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:50:16 +0000

FlyingSinger has a brief review of Anathem over here at his blog. But what caught my attention is that he read it on an iPhone with the Kindle SW?!? I mean WOW that is tenacity, I mean the finger-swipes alone have me thinking that the poor guy will need some kind of joint replacement! But anyway I guess it beats lugging an almost 900 page book around for a couple weeks…

So did anyone see the last episode of Fringe

ph5il — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:58:49 +0000

OK, I finally got around to watching this weeks Fringe. And I can’t help but think of a certain book called Snow Crash. Don’t get me wrong for some reason I am totally sucked into this show and enjoy it greatly. But a computer virus that melts people’s brains. Cool, but I have to question the quality of brain matter that would randomly click on a pop-up window like that…every IT person’s dream come true worst nightmare I mean what would I do if no one clicked on that stuff!

John Scalzi’s list of books that should be movies

ph5il — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:42:35 +0000

John Scalzi, who should have put one his books on that list I mean come on Old Man’s War would be a movie I’d go see!…anyway, has an article on the SciFi Scanner blog of books that would make good SciFi movies. And his first pick Snow Crash. I have to admit that I’m still surprised that someone has not tried this by now, but maybe this is to Mr. Stephenson’s credit that a horrible movie has not been released and that we can hold out hope that eventually (before all the stuff in the book comes into being hopefully!) a quality motion picture will come out of this.

BSFA list

ph5il — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:49:01 +0000

Ran across this post on Interaction by Andy, and guess who is on the list for Best Novel, OK I’ll tell you Neal Stephenson. He is in pretty good company but I am also slightly biased too.

New EOS Books giveaway

ph5il — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:36:20 +0000

Just in time for the Holidays there is a new contest over at EOS Books Blog where you can win a SIGNED copy of Anathem, Anathem CD and t-shirt, plus a special advance reader copy of The Confusion. Hurry.