To Miles and Ella, my little Pin@ys and JAs in Hawai'i who give me perspective and inspiration, […]

When his eyes were clear again, he saw the monster had passed and was rushing landward. Big iron upper-works rose out of this headlong structure, and from that twin funnels projected, and spat a smoking blast shot with fire into the air. It was the torpedo-ram, Thunder Child, steaming headlong, coming to the rescue of the threatened shipping.

And believe it or not, I have nothing against commercial e-mail and commercial e-publishing. Just not on Usenet. Compuserve is where you go for that.

[…] Crypto boosterism has a useful bipartisan appeal, garnering popularity among both antigovernment conservatives and socially liberal tech moguls.