Computer Years

It’s hard to believe that my desktop is already three years old. I wonder what equivalency that is to a human’s lifespan.

I feel as if I’m about to hit one of those stasis periods of my life. I’m reading, but I feel that I constantly compare how good my life is to how much I’m writing. Tonight I plan on breaking out some prompts and just rolling with them. Something that’s handy for situations like this is The Pocket Muse, but you could just as well get some writing prompts from the internet.

I recently finished William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition; I recommend it to anybody who is interested in contemporary cyber-cultures. It’s got a very postmodern feel to it and Gibson’s poking at post 9/11 culture. The next book in this trilogy is called Spook Country, which I hope to get my hands on soon. Currently I’m reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland. Has anybody ever read The Souls of Cyberfolk or Darwin’s Bastards? Both I want to look into before the semester starts back up.