>>En route to Pittsburgh for SQL Saturday.....zooming across the PA Turnpike at the speed of...well, however fast a 2000 Ford Explorer with 155,000 miles can go...
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>Hey! great to see you back here. Don't know when you got back - my computer deep sixed and they took it away for 3 weeks and then gave it back to me unfixed (but they seemed to think it was - even though it still wouldn't boot) so they took it away again for another 3 weeks. So I haven't been around much. Anyway, nice to see you back.
And Alan, great to see *you* back. I was actually thinking of you this week as I'm reading a book I think you might like
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald.
Very Stephanson - Gibson
I was drawn to it as it takes place Istanbul (quite convincingly). I read both River of Gods and Brasyl a while back but for some reason didn't make the connection with the author until just now looking it up on Amazon.
Also, Easy Money by Jen Lapidus (far and away better stuff than Steig Larsson for my money)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
