In the late 1990s, the telecommunications industry went briefly mad and a lot of very smart people made and then lost a lot of money doing some not very smart things. Telecommedy is a memoir / steamy tell-all / advice column / cathartic expression detailing one person's experience moving through those times, interspersed with slightly educational interludes that justify the book's existence in more prominent and discerning libraries.From the introduction: "The material in this book comes from two primary sources. The first source is a lecture that I give semi-regularly to graduate students at Georgia Tech who are about to enter the world of gainful employment. When asked to give my first lecture in the series, I did not realize that I was supposed to be speaking about technology and instead pulled together a series of humorous stories about my career scattered with platitudes about lessons learned. The class seemed to like it and they keep asking me back. The second source is a blog that I started, worked on furiously, and ultimately abandoned during the telecomm boom that was entitled