So I just watched the first of a new series by CBC. It's jPod, based on a book by Douglas Coupland. It's quirky and enjoyable, which makes it worth watching. Plus if you consider that everything else is on hold south of the border, why not watch it? Plus you'd be doing your patriotic duty of supporting Canadia!
*Note YouTube disabled linking so you need to go directly there.
You can actually watch the episodes off the CBC website here. Just click the big red square in the middle if you don't see a link. It's kinda like the red pill. You might not like the truth (witty eh?)
As for the book, never read it but I'm getting interested. I might have to click, buy, own on a future date. In the mean time, here's a description.
"From Publishers Weekly
Coupland returns, knowingly, to mine the dot-com territory of Microserfs (1996)—this time for slapstick. Young Ethan Jarlewski works long hours as a video-game developer in Vancouver, surfing the Internet for gore sites and having random conversations with co-workers on JPod, the cubicle hive where he works, where everyone's last name begins with J. Before Ethan can please the bosses and the marketing department (they want a turtle, based on a reality TV host, inserted into the game Ethan's been working on for months) or win the heart of co-worker Kaitlin, Ethan must help his mom bury a biker she's electrocuted in the family basement which houses her marijuana farm; give his dad, an actor desperately longing for a speaking part, yet another pep talk; feed the 20 illegal Chinese immigrants his brother has temporarily stored in Ethan's apartment; and pass downtime by trying to find a wrong digit in the first 100,000 places (printed on pages 383–406) of pi. Coupland's cultural name-dropping is predictable (Ikea, the Drudge Report, etc.), as is the device of bringing in a fictional Douglas Coupland to save Ethan's day more than once. But like an ace computer coder loaded up on junk food at 4 a.m., Coupland derives his satirical, spirited humor's energy from the silly, strung-together plot and thin characters. Call it Microserfs 2.0. (May)
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*Note YouTube disabled linking so you need to go directly there.
You can actually watch the episodes off the CBC website here. Just click the big red square in the middle if you don't see a link. It's kinda like the red pill. You might not like the truth (witty eh?)
As for the book, never read it but I'm getting interested. I might have to click, buy, own on a future date. In the mean time, here's a description.
"From Publishers Weekly
Coupland returns, knowingly, to mine the dot-com territory of Microserfs (1996)—this time for slapstick. Young Ethan Jarlewski works long hours as a video-game developer in Vancouver, surfing the Internet for gore sites and having random conversations with co-workers on JPod, the cubicle hive where he works, where everyone's last name begins with J. Before Ethan can please the bosses and the marketing department (they want a turtle, based on a reality TV host, inserted into the game Ethan's been working on for months) or win the heart of co-worker Kaitlin, Ethan must help his mom bury a biker she's electrocuted in the family basement which houses her marijuana farm; give his dad, an actor desperately longing for a speaking part, yet another pep talk; feed the 20 illegal Chinese immigrants his brother has temporarily stored in Ethan's apartment; and pass downtime by trying to find a wrong digit in the first 100,000 places (printed on pages 383–406) of pi. Coupland's cultural name-dropping is predictable (Ikea, the Drudge Report, etc.), as is the device of bringing in a fictional Douglas Coupland to save Ethan's day more than once. But like an ace computer coder loaded up on junk food at 4 a.m., Coupland derives his satirical, spirited humor's energy from the silly, strung-together plot and thin characters. Call it Microserfs 2.0. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. "
