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Your Next-Door Neighbor Is a Dragon
By: Zack ParsonseBook Publisher: Kensington
Imprint: Citadel
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Finally, a book about the Internet that takes place outside the Internet!
Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon leaves the bleeps and bloops behind for a series of surreal interviews and adventures with the people behind the computer screen.
Something Awful's Zack Parsons risks life and sanity by meeting with people who believe they are real dragons and elves, attending a furry convention in costume, paying a visit to a white power group in Texas, talking shop with people who want to be swallowed whole, and witnessing the launching of the Ron Paul Blimp.
More than a year in the making, this epic adventure is full to bursting with the jokes about wieners and poopy that made Something Awful a true Internet sensation. Have you added the book to your cart yet or do you just hate yourself that much?
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| Title of eBook: Your Next-Door Neighbor Is a Dragon | |
| Release Date: 08-01-2009 | |
| Publisher: Citadel |
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| SKU | 9780806532981 |
| File size | 1827 |
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Your Next-Door Neighbor Is a Dragon
Chapter One
The Matrix Retarded
He's intelligent, but an under-achiever; alienated from his parents; has few friends. Classic case for recruitment by the Soviets. -FBI Agent Nigan, War Games
The Internet is a slippery creature that defies description and metaphor.
Sure, the physical Internet can be defined. It can be described as routers and fiber optic lines, megabytes and gigabytes, bleeps and also bloops. That sort of description is too literal. By those rules you could claim a human is a bunch of meat and organs, but then a bucket filled with meat and organs also qualifies as human.
It is the nature, the elusive essence, of the Internet that cannot be easily categorized. What the Internet means.
Thousands of people with intellects vastly superior to mine have tried to describe the Internet. These are people with real college degrees, not the sort you buy for $49.99 from a "university" in a former Soviet state. Their degrees didn't arrive in an envelope that smelled like salted fish and prominently featured a spelling of "master's" that included a "k" and no vowels.
Ted Stevens, the disgraced Republican Senator from Alaska, had a bachelor's degree in political science from UCLA. That is an undergraduate degree and probably around ten IQ points on me. The brutal Darwinism of Alaskan politics ensures no fools ever hold office in that state. Yet, even a man as robustly intellectual as Senator Stevens once infamously warned of the Internet, "It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes."
Thanks?
William Gibson, one of my heroes,
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