Friday not-really funny but something to think about

James Barrow vrfour at verizon.net
Fri Jan 5 09:21:56 MST 2007


>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"

- Jim




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