Forgive me for shooting from the hip. These are just a few (mostly complete) thoughts.
A short note on personal attacks. From time to time people have disagreements with each other and the staff. While this goes along with being a part of a very diverse group of people, it shouldn't necessarily have to take on a personal nature. Common courtesy should be just that—common. Disagree all you want with someone but please remember to maintain a reasonable level of civility. Personal…
MAE-East was formerly the central node, or, in IT jargon, the central IEP of the Internet on the East Coast. Located in a parking garage1 in Tysons Corner, Virginia, MAE was a damp, dank concrete room filled with the routers of hundreds of carriers, most of whom shared peering through various arrangements. Boxes from early AOL and Digex shared racks with UUNET and PSInet; cables were…
To Say Nothing of the Dog
or
How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump At Last
By Connie Willis
Bantam, 1998
To Say Nothing of the Dog is quite possibly my favorite Connie Willis book. It is very much in the style of her comparatively light-hearted shorter works (e.g. Bellwether), but still pulls off the epic span of her longer novels. It is more-or…
Single Malt Whisky Review: Ardbeg 10 year old
The small, rugged Scottish Isle of Islay, home to Ardbeg, has one single malt scotch distillery per three-hundred seventy five residents. Hence it should come as no great surprise that those eight distilleries, ranging in age from five to two hundred, are each widely acclaimed for not only the quality of their products, but also the traditional, terroir-based manner in which they are produced. The unique, smoke-infused peat…