Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace

Explanation [ edit ] Julia Stiles , who later became a well-known actress as an older teenager and adult, did in fact appear in the children's television show Ghostwriter as a year-old in Transcript [ edit ] The best thing ever to appear on TV: year-old Julia Stiles as a hacker in a episode of PBS's "Ghostwriter" [A sketch of Julia Stiles, as a year-old, with a bandana over her head, long wavy hair, elbow shirt, wrist band, and pants.

Julia Stiles: Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace? Julia Stiles: Never experienced the new wave? Next wave? Dream wave? OR cyberpunk? Trivia [ edit ] This is a rare comic on xkcd to feature a drawing of a recognizable human being, as opposed to a stick-figure representation of them. Discussion Randall is right once again. The first time you hear the iconic challenge spit out by a very, very young Julia Stiles, it comes off as a joke—a throwback, a silly phrase in a monologue jam-packed with mids buzzwords.

But then, like so many other kitschy cultural touchstones, it slips under your skin and rattles around, revealing so much more than its creators intended.

But it also reflects a tendency of that same world to erect boundaries around itself, to the exclusion of many of the same marginalized people. Gatekeeping is, unfortunately, alive and well in all too many corners of the hacker community. Try this Wiki description on for size:. The series revolves around a close knit circle of friends from Brooklyn who solve neighborhood crimes and mysteries as a team of young detectives with the help of an invisible ghost.

The ghost can communicate with the kids only by manipulating whatever text and letters he can find and using them to form words and sentences. The series was filmed on location in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Those idiotic Bushmills ads that humblebrag about living in Brooklyn a whole three years ago?

Go to hell, Ghostwriter just kicked your pithy ass.