Comments on: Accelerando http://paulmackenzieross.com/accelerando/ Stating the obvious since 1970 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:20:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul Mackenzie Ross http://paulmackenzieross.com/accelerando/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Paul Mackenzie Ross Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:17:06 +0000 http://paulmackenzieross.com/?p=202#comment-184 Charlie, thanks for popping by, very much appreciated :) It certainly was a dizzying, break-neck start and those parallels resonated perfectly. Maybe I was just at the same place as you only 10 years out of sync? I think I must have developed a neural capacitor and it had to either expand or just blow my mind. Luckily it seems to be still wired up correctly and functioning fine. Charlie, thanks for popping by, very much appreciated :) It certainly was a dizzying, break-neck start and those parallels resonated perfectly. Maybe I was just at the same place as you only 10 years out of sync?

I think I must have developed a neural capacitor and it had to either expand or just blow my mind. Luckily it seems to be still wired up correctly and functioning fine.

]]> By: Charlie Stross http://paulmackenzieross.com/accelerando/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Charlie Stross Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:48:00 +0000 http://paulmackenzieross.com/?p=202#comment-182 It probably won't surprise you to learn that writing the first chunk of "Accelerando" saved my sanity at the time -- in 1999 -- when I was basically writing the server software that a dot-com startup relied on, and trying to hold it together during sustained 30% compound monthly traffic growth ... (I had to package up that sense of dizzying change and shove it somewhere, or I was going to have a nervous breakdown. Glad you found the somewhere and enjoyed it!) It probably won’t surprise you to learn that writing the first chunk of “Accelerando” saved my sanity at the time — in 1999 — when I was basically writing the server software that a dot-com startup relied on, and trying to hold it together during sustained 30% compound monthly traffic growth …

(I had to package up that sense of dizzying change and shove it somewhere, or I was going to have a nervous breakdown. Glad you found the somewhere and enjoyed it!)

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