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RE: Friday not-really funny but something to think about
Subject:RE: Friday not-really funny but something to think about From:"James Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:21:56 -0800
>Faith Wallis wrote:
>>Jessica Weissman said:
>>>Russell Brasel wrote:
>>>
>>>Given that Thomas Pynchon was a technical writer for Boeing, do you think
>>>he could be lurking on this list? Or could he be an active participant
>>posting under a different name?
>>
>>And I'm John Sladek, who was a technical writer and science fiction
>>author. Check out his "Bugs" for one of the few novels written, in part,
>>about technical writing. Do you know of more?
>
>Also, think about this....Stan Lee was a technical writer. My spidey
>senses tingle at the thought....
LOL...Stan Lee. I think these guys would have made interesting tech
writers:
Tom Clancy: "The scary part is going to be booting up the servers - many of
them had recently died, which means precisely nothing"
Stephen King: "When you look at the screen in the harsh office lights,
you'll see that the color has gone out of the application"
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