Reading xkcd today, I came across a link to this guy’s blog called “VerizonMath“. A guy named George Vaccaro created this blog last Thursday after dealing with some rather inept Verizon Call Center employees.
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From the monthly archives:
December 2006
As I was eating lunch with three of my friends (all of us engineering grad students), we were talking about a yet to be released movie and one of them said in an excited state, “They say it is going to be about a boy and his robot, but that’s stupid…it should be about the [...]
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I see it has been almost a month since my last post. What can I say? I’ve been busy. The worst part is, I had several things to write about at one point or another, but I never actually got around to it. So, in a pathetic attempt to somehow make up for lost time, [...]
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Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.
This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.