Yay for pasting in excerpts from books we’re too lazy to write about?

From Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson:

When Hiro’s father died, he cashed in all of his Black Sun stock to put Mom in a nice community in Korea. She loves it there. Goes golfing every day. He could have kept his money in The Black Sun and made ten million dollars about a year later when it went public, but his mother would have been a street person. So when his mother visits him in the Metaverse, looking tan and happy in her golfing duds, Hiro views that as his personal fortune. It won’t pay the rent, but that’s okay—when you live in a shithole, there’s always the Metaverse, and in the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince.

I just noticed I’ve used a blockquote in every single entry but the first. A good question to ask: “How is this significant, and what does it say about my writing style?” A better one: “Do I really care?”

In unrelated news, the MacBook is in for repairs again. Sigh.