Microserfs (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to combine 21 books, including Microserfs, Monday, October 12 2009.

Ulrich edited the books like this book of Microserfs Monday, October 12 2009.

• Added JPod

Ulrich edited the quotations of Microserfs Monday, October 12 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “If you ship on time you get a Ship-It award: a 12-x-15-x-1-inch12-x-15-x-1- inch Lucite slab - but you have to pretend it's no big dealdeal. Michael has a Ship-It award and we've tried various times to destroy it - blowtorching, throwing it off the veranda, dowsing it with acetone to dissolve it - nothing works. It's so permanent, it's frightening.”

Ulrich edited the quotations of Microserfs Monday, October 12 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “"IfIf you ship on time you get a Ship-It award: a 12-x-15-x-1- inch12-x-15-x-1-inch Lucite slab - but you have to pretend it's no big deal"deal”

Ulrich edited the quotations of Microserfs Monday, October 12 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “If"If you ship on time you get a Ship-It award: a 12-x-15-x-l-inch12-x-15-x-1- inch Lucite slab-butslab - but you have to pretend it's no big deal.deal"”

Ulrich edited the quotations of Microserfs Monday, October 12 2009.

• Added a quotation: “If you ship on time you get a Ship-It award: a 12-x-15-x-l-inch Lucite slab-but you have to pretend it's no big deal.”

Ulrich submitted a request to combine 21 books, including Microserfs, Monday, October 12 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Microserfs Sunday, August 2 2009.

• Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the '90s follows the adventures of six code-crunching computer whizzes. Known as "microserfs," they spend upward of 16 hours a day "coding" (writing software) as they eat "flat" foods (such as Kraft singles, which can be passed underneath closed doors) and fearfully scan the company email to see what the great Bill might be thinking and whether he is going to "flame" one of them. Seizing the chance to be innovators instead of cogs in the Microsoft machine, this intrepid bunch strike out on their own to form a high-tech start-up company named Oop! in Silicon Valley. Living together in a sort of digital flophouse --"Our House of Wayward Mobility" -- they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world. Funny, illuminating and ultimately touching, Microserfs is the story of one generation's very strange and claustrophobic coming of age.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Microserfs Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Douglas Coupland:

Shelfari edited the contributors of Microserfs Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Douglas Coupland: (Primary Author)