Shigeru

Shirley is a top notch dude. I finally read his A Song Called Youth trilogy a couple years back and it was great. Heavy with sociopolitical commentary and dark alleys. A solid action adventure that maybe got ponderous in the middle, but still ends up being a key contribution to the genre.

I am only halfway through season one, but I came here to recommend it. Network and IT security game is strong.

In other news, I realized that I lived long enough to be a corporate sysadmin. Not what I would have though was gonna happen going into the game.

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

I've got Cyberspace and some of its supplements. Pretty fun if you can work with the ICE system.

Hey new guys and girls. Welcome aboard!

Ah...er, well...

 

I'm not entirely new. I joined quite a while ago, but sort of dropped off the face of the boards in 2005 or 2006.

 

I owe some very nice people (Companero, Shigeru, I'm looking at you!) some very late and apologetic e-mails. Suffice it to say that life got a wee hectic and strange and stuff, and now that I'm married and moved to Australia, things may, in fact, be settling down again. I may reveal more about my most recent strange circumstances because they relate directly to this site. But that will be for later.

 

In the meantime, hello, everyone, and to those I haven't seen in a while, hello again, and any lack of communication on my part was my fault and no reflection of you or my opinion of you. Sometimes I simply bite off way more than I can chew.

 

Cheers!

Hey, its great to hear from you. Congratulations on getting married! I'm sure you've had more interesting things to deal with than the internet and for that, I am very happy for you.

Hope to see more of you around here, but its just good to know that things are stabilitzing for you.

Hey what's up. Neuromancer is the book that got me into Sci-Fi and still is the best I've read. Glad to see that the genre is still alive.

Same here. In fact, I didn't do a lot of reading at all until I read Neuromancer. It changed a lot of things for me. I read it every couple of years just to remind myself.

Tell us how you really feel, Rockwolf! lol

Let's not forget Gibson's description of Chiba City in Neuromancer (paraphrased):

"...and experiment in social Darwinism, with one finger on the fast forward button..."

Cyberpunk evolves, just as social concepts and technology must. Live in the future that was written twenty years ago and you'll quickly find yourself obsolete.

Not suggesting anybody here is a geezer, but lets face it...the older we get, the more we lose touch with whats coming and stay in touch with what's gone.