the plow that broke the plain (plane)

books in last four weeks:

1. the book thief by markus zusak
2. the worst hard time by tim egan
3. divisadero by michael ondaatje

1. incredible incredible incredible. actually left me sobbing for 2+ hours as i read the last chapters and in the time that immediately followed. i don't know what else to say about it. another wwII tale. about a young girl living through the third reich. this is nothing like anne frank.

2. nonfiction about the dust bowl. extremely well-composed. bigger man-made disaster than hurricane katrina or the san diego fires.

3. lovely literature by one of my favorite writers. finished it on the black ball ferry from victoria, bc to port angeles, wa.

no end of books in sight.

cyberpunk goes gardening

in my office, i wish that i could type ctrl+F and use the search function to find some missing papers.

on walks, i wish that i could point to plants and have a backlit text box hovering over with the common and scientific names of the plants. google earth-style.

its mousing through the world, always searching for the blinking cursor.

didnt molly in "neuromancer" have digitally-constructed roboeyes that gave time, temperature readings, etc. in the corner of her vision? i would like something like that, but with a built in encyclopedia.