So I got the picture up here from ShoZu, but couldn't enter the description in the iPhone. Stephenson did a reading and took questions. The answers were all well thought out and complete, he'd gotten most of them before. When I got my book signed I asked if he did anything half-assed. He said yes, but he doesn't get paid to discuss them on national tours in churches. While he was signing my friend's book he said he's a half-assed machinist.
Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Neil Stephenson
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