my two fav sites are this one and www.gamefaqs.com

and i was reading the post,, and i saw

someones sig.. and it was by wintermute
and the only wintermute i know is on totse

so heres the link:
http://s1.cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=936&topic=5594467

Hmmmmmmmmm...

Wintermute is an Artificial Intelligence in William Gibson's classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.

A slightly less flattering character named Wintermute was a retarded savant who was pushed into the Crusades by his wealthy family in order to get rid of him in a somewhat honorable fashion. He could look at the sky and instantly determine latitude. He couldn't figure longitude, though, and got his entire party lost and founded a doomed settlement in the middle of nowhere.

The quotation you refer to is from Neuromancer.

holy shit that sounds like a crazy book, is it any good?

After hearing so much about it on irc, I went out and bought it a while back. So far it's a great book.

Yeah, why do people assume that anyone on the internet who uses the nick "Wintermute" is me?..

I'm a big WG fan..

thats why i decided to cut through the crap, and make a truly unique name. i mashed the keyboard, and got this. now i never need raovq_2864 or anyhting. i thought it was a great idea.

Do you know of any other William Gibson books worth looking at? Neuromancer is pretty good.

Dammit, now I have to find my copy and read it again.

As for names, I was determined to find something totaly unique, but not so hard to remember. It took me a few hours to come up with the handle I use most everywhere, Promethean Sky. The only reason I don't use it here is that I originaly signed on with it, but the system wouldn't accept my password.

All of the WG books are good.

HEY!

Wintermute, your becoming a celeberty here at &totse.

What is that book about? (neuromancer)

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Originally posted by MR.SMITH:
Wintermute, your becoming a celeberty here at &totse.

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yeah, can I be celebernie ...

ive just started to read my 1st WG book, 'burning chrome' a series of short stories. just finished johnny mnomonic(sp) only 30 odd pages but much better than the movie i must say it was rather terrible.
i have a freind who also has the handle wintermute and his favorite book is neuromancer think ill be checking it out in the not to distant future.
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lae

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Originally posted by RAOVQ:
thats why i decided to cut through the crap, and make a truly unique name. i mashed the keyboard, and got this. now i never need raovq_2864 or anyhting. i thought it was a great idea.

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I envy you and your brilliance, its pretty funny I give you credit even though everyone else ignored you!

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Originally posted by nastradamnus:

I envy you and your brilliance, its pretty funny I give you credit even though everyone else ignored you!

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Just because we didn't respond to his post doesn't mean we ignored it.

Well, speaking for myself at least...