Monday, June 20, 2005
Cory Doctorow's third book is out.
http://craphound.com/someone/
Someone_Comes_to_Town_Someone_Leaves_Town.
Four drinks later (my limit is three) I feel like expounding slightly. I'm not done with it, but well into it. This is a much tamer book than the one about the lobsters.
There's a main character, call him Mr. A. (obscure ditko reference.)
In part of the novel, he's a grownup, living in next week's toronto, installing anarcho-punk muni wifi. (obscure tom jennings reference.*) I like, and relate to, that part. Another fraction of the novel is about when he's a kid, and that's unpleasantly weirder, because he's not human.
The ad hoc muni wifi part seems very doable, and i think that's part of the point of the book. Cory's day job is with EFF. Makes me want to run out and buy a wireless router, ask my boyfriend how to set it up so it runs a neighborhood wifi without compromising my security. His first, and better, novel, down and out in the magic kingdom, www.craphound.com/down, sold out 6 editions and 1/2 million free downloads.
Assuming similar numbers, and that no more than 1% of readers run out and set up free community wifi, it could have an impact on the current hot policy topic of should municipalities get into the wifi gig. Now i will go pass out so i can get up real early to pick up roommate from jail. Not the CCA gulag jail, but one one county over.
She did 40 days, public intox with complications.
Finished Someone, 7 pm tuesday. Maybe that was book 33. I've lost track.
29 Lenny Bruce.
30 Andrew Young.
31 The one with the lobsters.
32 The Deal.
33 Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves town. Right, 33.
http://craphound.com/someone/
Someone_Comes_to_Town_Someone_Leaves_Town.
Four drinks later (my limit is three) I feel like expounding slightly. I'm not done with it, but well into it. This is a much tamer book than the one about the lobsters.
There's a main character, call him Mr. A. (obscure ditko reference.)
In part of the novel, he's a grownup, living in next week's toronto, installing anarcho-punk muni wifi. (obscure tom jennings reference.*) I like, and relate to, that part. Another fraction of the novel is about when he's a kid, and that's unpleasantly weirder, because he's not human.
The ad hoc muni wifi part seems very doable, and i think that's part of the point of the book. Cory's day job is with EFF. Makes me want to run out and buy a wireless router, ask my boyfriend how to set it up so it runs a neighborhood wifi without compromising my security. His first, and better, novel, down and out in the magic kingdom, www.craphound.com/down, sold out 6 editions and 1/2 million free downloads.
Assuming similar numbers, and that no more than 1% of readers run out and set up free community wifi, it could have an impact on the current hot policy topic of should municipalities get into the wifi gig. Now i will go pass out so i can get up real early to pick up roommate from jail. Not the CCA gulag jail, but one one county over.
She did 40 days, public intox with complications.
Finished Someone, 7 pm tuesday. Maybe that was book 33. I've lost track.
29 Lenny Bruce.
30 Andrew Young.
31 The one with the lobsters.
32 The Deal.
33 Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves town. Right, 33.
Comments:
Post a Comment
