![]() Living together in a sort of digital flophouse -"Our House of Wayward Mobility" - they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.įunny, illuminating and ultimately touching, Microserfs is the story of one generation's very strange and claustrophobic coming of age. Seizing the chance to be innovators instead of cogs in the Microsoft machine, this intrepid bunch strike out on their own to form a high-tech start-up company named Oop! in Silicon Valley. ![]() Known as "microserfs," they spend upward of 16 hours a day "coding" (writing software) as they eat "flat" foods (such as Kraft singles, which can be passed underneath closed doors) and fearfully scan the company email to see what the great Bill might be thinking and whether he is going to "flame" one of them. ![]() Now, Sakura is thrust into a mystical journey to capture all the cards before they wreak chaos and destruction Cardcaptor Sakura, Vol. Highly amusing little book of coders all aged 32, mentally if not in years, being obsessed with programming and living their messy student-type lives shaped by. Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the '90s follows the adventures of six code-crunching computer whizzes. From the acclaimed author of Hey Nostradamus comes a wonderful comic novel with more one-liners than a decade of Woody Allen films. The book once contained a set of magical Clow Cards, but they all escaped while the guardian of the book fell asleep. ![]()
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