Thursday, January 10, 2008

1-10-08

"Nice shooting, Vic," Fisheye says.

"It's, like, one of them drug dealer boats," Vic says, looking through his magic sight. "Five guys on it. Headed our way." He fires another round. "Correction. Four guys on it." Boom. "Correction, they're not headed our way anymore." Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. "Correction. No boat."

-- Snow Crash

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Neal Stephenson popularized the term "avatar."

1 comment:

Jim H. said...

Yeah, avatar entered my vocabulary in the computer gaming sense before I found out it what it actually meant.

And what part of Snow Crash was that from? I don't remember it.