DJ Dante
25 May ‘08, 4.02pm PDT PST: by
ccreitz
He rolls one deep in the club. No posse.
Archive for May 2008
Prerelease
.What greeted me in my Amazon orbit today: New Neal Stephenson book, Anathem, dropping 9 Sept. The Ninth is a Tuesday, and the book is 2″ thick in hardcover, so there goes that Tuesday. If you see me in person or on the Internets, I do not want to know anything else about it, OK? I have seriously injured men for less.
For the uninitiated: Stephenson is a super-excellent science fiction writer who has written the best works in a handful of subgenres (techno-thriller: Cryptonomicon, cyberpunk: Snow Crash, retro-scifi/steampunk: The Diamond Age, alternate history: The Baroque Cycle). Whatever he’s doing, I enter into reading it with the very highest of expectations. It goes without saying that I recommend his earlier works (from Snow Crash onward and including the psuedonymous, collaborative techno-thrillers Cobweb and Interface) and that you could do a lot worse, come September, than having Anathem queued up.
Climbing
Don’t know why he’s so irritated… he didn’t have to carry a baby up a mountain or anything.
New photos are up, tagged with their date of upload (20080516). Among the many adventures depicted therein: on Mother’s Day, Punam and Dante and I, along with Dante’s baby friend Ella and her parents John and Tammie, climbed most of the way up Marin County’s Mt Tamalpais, stopping at the West Point Inn for their pancake breakfast. It was a pleasant hike, and the various native irises were at the peak of blooming – you’ll see quite a few pictures of Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana) in there.
And there’s more! Several adventures are documented, including Dante’s VR grapefruit encounter, mysterious tomatoes, and yellow (not Coldplay). Enjoy!