I’m not easily star-struck. I’ve hobnobbed with kings and princes and captains of industry, and once Barack Obama nearly ran over my foot with his carry-on at the airport. I take it all in stride, man.
But holy crap! Jerry fricking Pournelle laughed at one of my jokes! Check it out! It’s a long, long page, but search for the phrase “hysterically funny reference to Cory Doctorow” and you’ll see what I mean.
Jerry’s collaborations make for terrific fiction. Inferno is one of my favorite books of all time, and Footfall is arguably the best invaders-from-space story ever written.
Okay, I’ll stop being a giggly teenager now and get on with my day.
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I think that cracking Pournelle up is worth a good solid morning of giggly teenagerhood.
BRD
Thursday, September 6th, 2007, 8:10 am
‘Jerry fricking Pournelle’ - why on earth he has so poor looking blog(I’m trying to use legally allowed words here)?
For somebody’s sake make him a decent layout.
lm
Thursday, September 6th, 2007, 9:42 am
err… I have no idea who that is.
But man, that Cory reference was pretty damn funny.
Mad William Flint
Thursday, September 6th, 2007, 12:37 pm
So, I’m looking him up on the Wikipedia and it turns out he hails from Shreveport…
jank
Thursday, September 6th, 2007, 1:35 pm
Fricking? What happened to fracking?!
Yeah, I visited his blog once and thought it was some setup for a time travel novel. I was expecting a MIDI file to start playing while a fancy animated GIF shrouded a mailto link. I’m sure Jeff could spruce it up for the cost of Pournelle laughing at more of his jokes.
Derek G.
Thursday, September 6th, 2007, 1:36 pm
Speaking of Doctrow.
Bravo Romeo Delta
Thursday, September 6th, 2007, 6:45 pm