{"id":2433,"date":"2004-04-21T03:55:03","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T17:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/21\/neal-stephenson-confusion\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:51:47","slug":"neal-stephenson-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/21\/neal-stephenson-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Neal Stephenson: Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11234,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0060523867\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9704,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0380977427\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310213726\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0380977427\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0380977427\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 03:08:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 03:08:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11235,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com\\\/books\\\/int\\\/2004\\\/04\\\/21\\\/stephenson\\\/print.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081012213532\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com\\\/books\\\/int\\\/2004\\\/04\\\/21\\\/stephenson\\\/print.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 14:12:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 07:46:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 07:46:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11236,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com\\\/books\\\/review\\\/2004\\\/04\\\/21\\\/confusion\\\/print.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com\\\/books\\\/review\\\/2004\\\/04\\\/21\\\/confusion\\\/print.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11237,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net\\\/2004\\\/04\\\/21\\\/stepheons_confusion_.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080516090543\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net\\\/2004\\\/04\\\/21\\\/stepheons_confusion_.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 14:12:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 07:46:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 07:46:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11238,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=04\\\/04\\\/21\\\/1232233&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=04\\\/04\\\/21\\\/1232233&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I <em>so<\/em> need to get to the bookstore soon &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0060523867\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Confusion\">Confusion<\/a>, the second book in Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Baroque Cycle (which began with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0380977427\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Quicksilver\">Quicksilver<\/a>) is out. Salon has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/int\/2004\/04\/21\/stephenson\/print.html\" title=\"Neal Stephenson\">interview with Stephenson<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/review\/2004\/04\/21\/confusion\/print.html\" title=\"Pirates! Calculus! Banking! Alchemy!\">review of Confusion<\/a> up which both look good, though I don&#8217;t have time to read them right now. Argh! :)<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/04\/21\/stepheons_confusion_.html\" title=\"Stepheon's Confusion on Salon\">Boing Boing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/04\/21\/1232233\" title=\"\/.: Salon Interviews Neal Stephenson\">\/.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;.^.^.^%^%\\^%&#8221; by The User from the album <em>Symphony &#35;2 for Dot Matrix Printers<\/em> (2002, 6:38).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I so need to get to the bookstore soon &mdash; Confusion, the second book in Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Baroque Cycle (which began with Quicksilver) is out. Salon has an interview with Stephenson and a review of Confusion up which both look good, though I don&#8217;t have time to read them right now. Argh! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[4095,2345],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-neal-stephenson","tag-the-baroque-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}