by PriamNevhausten » Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:00 pm
I kept the box my documentation came in as a suitable interface between my legs and the computer itself; it was about the right size. Also, be sure, very sure, to turn off the laptop whenever it is not terribly inconvenient--laptops are more prone than desktops to overheating, and their hard drives take less of a beating to become worn down to uselessness. Be very courteous of your laptop!
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru