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Brilliant, short mystery novel, written by a brilliant, large, well-known author. Though an early 20th century novel, it’s still amazingly relevant. Contains some transcendental passages as well. I believe it’s one of the most recommended works of fiction by Chesterton. I now know why.

Zatz Not Funny, a general PVR blog with a Tivo bent, reports that CBS will stream every single game of this year’s March Madness tournament. You won’t even suffer from local blackouts. But what will the quality be like? Looks like I won’t have to spend anything on DirecTv’s March Madness pass. Not that I was going to.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if Memphis lost in the first round? Well, it’d be ironic, but I doubt it’ll happen.

DirecTV (to which I happily subscribe) will have an interactive, multi-screen presentation of the Masters this year. How providential that this is the same year in which I was afforded the opportunity to go hi-def, widescreen, plasma, and large. I may need to take a 4-day weekend.

After all, it’ll be the start of Tiger’s Grand Slam year.

“Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man’s best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off…The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy… Murder is no better than cards if cards do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

It’s a sign of lazy reading when you have to refer to a book’s Wikipedia entry to make sure what you thought was happening actually occurred in the book. Fortunately, I was mostly right. Neuromancer is one of those books that’s oft referred to in popular culture, especially considering that Gibson coined the phrase cyberspace. It’s been called the first cyberpunk novel. I couldn’t believe it was written in 1984, as forward thinking, both in substance and narrative, as the story is. I kept wondering how difficult it would be to turn this into a film. Seems 2009 will be the year. Read the book before you see the movie.