Humor & Hell-Fire: What We Love to Hate About the Information Highway
A New Computer Book That's Not

May 12, 1995 -- Daly City, CA--Are you growing old while your PC tests your
patience? Do the boondoggles begin the moment you flip the switch on? If
you're desperate for a laugh at the expense of your PC, the wait is over.
Here's your chance to poke fun at your machine and at the technology and
hackers who create it. Revel in the little annoyances and weird tics of
the Information Highway that you've been fortunate enough to read about
but not personally discover.

I Lost My Baby, My Pickup, and My Guitar on the Information Highway: A
Humorous Trip Down the Highways, Byways, and Backroads of Information
Technology (No Starch Press, $9.95, 128 pages, publication date May, 1995,
ISBN 1-886411-00-X) flavors anecdotes with the latest technojargon to
amuse PC experts and recreational hackers alike. An irreverent book by PC
World columnist, longtime feminist, trouble-maker, and computer-curmudgeon
Judy Heim, I Lost My Baby is salvation for people whose desks are heaped
with increasing numbers of blinking boxes and who enjoy twisted fantasies
of murdering their computer.

Designed to be read either in snippets or in one sitting, I Lost My Baby
will make you yearn for life before the computer(when people called
instead of E-mailed. It's filled with offbeat tips and vignettes, from how
to keep from weeping over your PC ("Go out, have a cappucino, buy yourself
some expensive jewelry, ride the subway to the other side of the city,
just for the hell of it"), to details of finding love in cyberspace ("Be
sure to keep on hand lots of software that beeps(like chocolate, the heart
in love never tires of software that beeps"), and finally to the universal
truth: "Computers are faster than people, but only when people are
brain-dead."

A resident of Madison, Wisconsin, Judy Heim admits to living almost
exclusively on the Internet. An award-winning journalist who met her
husband using a computer dating service, Heim discovers unorthodox detours
on the infobahn. Her ten years of high-tech experience and global view of
technology will bring readers both delight and solace as they embark on
their Information Highway travels: "In the glimpse of the growing free
world that these tragic soliloquies provide, I see humanity united not by
democracy, not by capitalism, nor even by the ability to empathize with
the common struggles of man, but by the futile struggles of offices to get
their fax-modems and PCs working."

Advance Praise

"I Lost My Baby is a funny book! It's entertaining, sly, and witty. If you
buy just one computer book this month, make it Heim's."--Steve Bass,
Contributing Editor, PC World

"I Lost My Baby is as funny a look at the so-called Information Highway as
I've ever seen. Whether you're dueling with semiconductors on rocky
learning curves or still looking for the info on-ramp, your driving habits
will never be the same."--William Rodarmor, Managing Editor, California
Monthly

About the Author

Judy Heim writes a column about the Information Highway for PC World, the
most widely read computer magazine in the world. She is the author of The
Best Guide to Business Shareware (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1994) and an author
of The PC Bible (Peachpit Press, 1994). She often receives misdirected
E-mail addressed to Bill Clinton and Al Gore, and once received a
misdirected faxed marriage proposal intended for a woman in Hawaii. She
lives in Wisconsin with her husband, a hound dog, and a cat--a household
once classified by a market researcher for a dog food company as a "highly
undesirable demographic melange." She once met Colonel Sanders. Judy has
been writing about computers for more than ten years.

No Starch Press
1903 Jameston Lane
Daly City, CA 94014-3466
800.420.7240 or 415.334.7200

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