I’m not sure if Neal Stephenson is the geek Chuck Norris or the geek Paul Bunyan:
Stephenson spends his mornings cloistered in the basement, writing longhand in fountain pen and reworking the pages on a Mac version of the Emacs text editor. This intensity cannot be sustained all day—”It’s part of my personality that I have to mess with stuff,” he says—so after the writing sessions, he likes to get his hands on something real or hack stuff on the computer.
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…brain surgery is one of the things Stephenson is tinkering with.
Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He’s the King of the Worlds
via [LMG]
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Obligatory link to Nimrod’s Stephenson interview (Hebrew):
http://blog.goleshet.com/home/neal_stephenson_interview_hebrew
And the edited version, if you like your readers evil (also Hebrew):
http://digital.timeout.co.il/activemagazine/welcome/timeout_253.asp
Triggered the singularity to win a bet.
Sounds familiar somehow.
I like the Chuck Norris quotes more, though :)
The better Paul Bunyan story is Paul Bunyan and the Photocopier (the podcast), which also has a very suitable reader for the story. I ran across the spambot story while looking for a text version (and found them both on boingboing), and was not particularly impressed by it.