Happy New Year!

Two parties in two days! Thanks bigscary! Thanks auntiemisha and, um, does Greg have an LJ? gmdraves!

And now two days to recover. Pretty damn good.

If you’d asked me what topics I expected to be discussing in the first few hours of 2006, the question of whether RMS smells worse than ESR would not have been among them. Puerto Rico strategy, now that I might have guessed. Posthumanist SF, likewise. Vibrating hairbrush, mm, probably not.

More stuff in Cryptonomicon

So I’m up to the part in Cryptonomicon with the letter to Penthouse — if you’ve read it, you remember what I’m talking about — and noticed a few things:

( The few things )