Well Holy Sheep Shit kiddo's School starts for me tomorrow! I'm enrolled in the Electronic Engineering program at C.C.N.N. I could afford going there so hell why not right? I'm excited about the later classes because they deal with Networking and System Administration (Woo Geek stuff!)
Well Fortune favor the foolish and Carpe diem Beeeotch!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Punk reading list continued
Selection Number Two is
Tea From An Empty Cup by Pat Cadigan
This title deals with the classic situation of the Artificial reality becoming all to real in the minds of those who are jacked in. People are starting to die in ways that mimic the deaths of there Avatars in the AR, is this the work of a VR Serial killer? Detective Dora Konstantin Searches relentlessly for the answers through the dark side streets and ally ways of Noo Yawk Sitty in this AR meets real world gritty Cyberpunk novel.
I Really enjoyed this book, I read it right after I read Pat Cadigans book Synners (also on the suggested reading list) I give this book a 4 out of 5 it is truly great Cyberpunk!
-- additional review follows --
Review From Publishers Weekly
Artificial reality is where it's at if you're hot to party in the 21st century. Plugged-in gamers flock to such AR sites as post-Apocalyptic Noo Yawk Sitty for wild cyberspace adventures. It costs a bundle to visit but it's guaranteed safe; you can die in AR and be back partying the next day. But now gamers are turning up dead in the real world, impossibly dead in locked rooms, in ways that mimic their supposedly harmless deaths on the Net. Dore Konstantin, a homicide cop with little AR experience, realizes that to solve the murders she's going to have to enter cyberspace. There she searches for the mysterious entity known as Body Sativa and, in an act of deliberate provocation, does so wearing the AR appearance of Shantih Love, the latest murder victim. Yuki Harame is also searching for someone, her missing lover who may or may not be the dead Shantih Love. Although neither Konstantin nor Yuki know of each other's existence, both have entered a dark world of online sexual perversion, and both are in deadly danger.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Some suggested Cyberpunk Reading
First on the list is Timothy Leary's Cyberpunks Cyberfreedom: Change Reality Screens (Reboot Your Brain)
Now I first saw this and was like Oh Shit the Lord of Acid got a hold of my beloved genera and put his Patchouli stank all over it! But I gave it a chance and to my amazement I was entertained, so yah read with a grain of salt and see what you think the synopsis follows...
Timothy Leary's "cyberpunk manifesto"
This is his future-vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and empowerment via computers and brain technologies. Cyberpunks brings together some of Leary’s most provocative writings, along with selections from interviews and conversations with a variety of writers and thinkers. Individual chapters include “How I Became an Amphibian,” “Personal Computers; Personal Freedom,” and “Navigational Game Plane.” “How to Boot Up Your Bio-Computer” typifies Leary’s outrageous yet surprisingly grounded ideas, linking pagan, nature-based rituals with a “collective boot-up” of the brain through stimulation from certain natural plants. Together, these pieces describe a new breed of human being who embraces technology, uses it to revolutionize communication and evade and annoy Big Brother, while at the same time achieving personal success, attaining political power, and above all, having fun.
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