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Updating Gogol for the Age of Google – Dead SULs

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4 Code & Commerce. 5 ProbR – Part 2. Updating Gogol for the Age of Google. This is a website for a book about a website. To clarify: this website is where I blog about a book-in-progress called. Which is about a website you may have heard of once or twice, Facebook. The idea for this novel first occurred to me when I read that brands and celebrities looking for a quick way to up their friend or follower counts on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks often buy all that adoration. So in my adaptati...

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Part II – Dead SULs

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4 Code & Commerce. 5 ProbR – Part 2. Hy do I so persistently paint the poverty, the imperfections of Russian life, and delve into the remotest depths, the most retired holes and corners, of our Empire for my subjects? The answer is that there is nothing else to be done when an author’s idiosyncrasy happens to incline him that way. So again we find ourselves in a retired spot. But what a spot! To what fortunate individual does this corner of the world belong? However, let me describe in detail a specimen ...

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Part I – Dead SULs

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4 Code & Commerce. 5 ProbR – Part 2. 8221; “I think it will,” replied his companion. “But not as far as Kazan, eh? Cheek by jowl with a samovar 5. The latter so closely resembling the former in appearance that, but for the fact of the samovar possessing a pitch-black lip, the samovar and the sbitentshik might have been two of a pair. How far from the town did those landowners reside? What was the character of each landowner, and was he in the habit of paying frequent visits to the town? That is to say, h...

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5 | ProbR – Part 2 – Dead SULs

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4 Code & Commerce. 5 ProbR – Part 2. 5 ProbR – Part 2. We’re at the ProbR Launch [LIVE BLOG]. Much-hyped startup ProbR is holding an event this morning in San Francisco to announce the beta version of it’s long-awaited AI answer engine . We’ll be live-blogging the event and will update this post as we receive information about ProbR, insights from the company’s founder Michael Probst, and any images of the new site. Stay tuned for more. All times are in Pacific Standard Time.]. They’re starting on time!

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June – 2013 – Dead SULs

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4 Code & Commerce. 5 ProbR – Part 2. Monthly Archives: June 2013. Tin House & Creative Tokens. I’m just back from mailing off a draft of my manuscript! Okay, so it wasn’t exactly an entire draft the last three chapters were more like rough sketches, or a “Coming up, on The Bachelor” pre-commerical-break teaser but it’s the closest I’ve come to printing out a full copy yet. And I hear […]. June 10, 2013 – 6:20 pm. Posted in The Bachelor. Will I like this book? That depends. Are you:. A fan of the Internet?

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1 | Friends – Dead SULs

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4 Code & Commerce. 5 ProbR – Part 2. Waking up on the bed under his tab, wholly adrift. The room was dark. The tab was dark. He shifted his hips, a pelvic quiver, and saw the screen alight. Its flare an instant beacon calling him back to duty, his services required. Chilbert lifted the surface until he was holding it a few inches from his face while wondering, in passing, how much sperm he’d killed off by falling asleep with it on his lap. He wasn’t sure which count was lower, that or his Friends. Lying ...

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Author’s Preface – Dead SULs

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4 Code & Commerce. 5 ProbR – Part 2. Author’s Preface to the First Portion of This Work. From the Author to the Reader. Eader, whosoever or wheresoever you be, and whatsoever be your station–whether that of a member of the higher ranks of society or that of a member of the plainer walks of life–I beg of you, if God shall have given you any skill in letters, and my book shall fall into your hands, to extend to me your assistance. Yes, he would indeed do me a vital service! Used with special permission.

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Excerpts – Dead SULs

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4 Code & Commerce. 5 ProbR – Part 2. The anatomy of an experiment in open publishing! Between January and April of 2011 I released five excerpts from the book’s first draft, and you can read these below. But in July of that year I threw everything away and started the book from scratch. 8220;[p]eople who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.”. Oh the horror, the horror! Excerpt 4 Code and Commerce. And Jonathan Vingiano’s. Will I like this book?

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4 | Code & Commerce – Dead SULs

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4 Code & Commerce. 5 ProbR – Part 2. 4 Code & Commerce. There was redemption, at least. This leg of the trip had wireless. The idea of lasting without made his head hurt, remembering the asphyxiating deadzone of sky he’d survived between Boston and Dallas. Nickname is Brit, loves Taylor Swift, daughter Brie is 2 1/2. Finally, the ding of freedom. Buckle off. Tab on. TheCrackAlpha.ca, more often called, in the parlance of its regular visitors, TheCaca. Anyway he was already in love. TheCaca’s name alo...