Nerd alert

As if the fact that I had to upgrade my electric toothbrush this weekend wasn't nerdy enough, and especially when combined with the fact I surf and blog via wi-fi when the modem is literally six feet away, just because it seems cooler to do so...I think my tiny little nerd mind was just blown.
They've apparently bumped up the release date for The System of the World, the third and final volume of Neal Stevenson's "Baroque Cycle" novels to Tuesday, September 21 (it was originally to be released in mid-October). I can barely restrain from pushing my glasses up my nose I'm so excited. Instead, in neo-nerd fashion, I will post a comment on my blog. If you haven't read any of these books, you're either completely ignorant of the best and most ambitious fiction currently out there, or... you're a woman. A third possibility, I suppose, would be that you have friends and a healthy social life, possibly even a girlfriend.
Anyway! It's coming out Tuesday, and I couldn't be more excited. As soon as I finish my current pseudo-intellectual casual fling, I shall delve into this:

This brawl takes place against the background of the imminent death of Queen Anne, which threatens a succession crisis as Jacobite (Stuart, Catholic) sympathizers confront supporters of the Hanoverian succession.

Doesn't that sound great?!?!?!
If you want to start reading these books, start here, where a lot of the themes from the Baroque Cycle are first developed. It's much shorter, too.