I believe he lives in Oakland, California and make hand-blown glass Klein bottles.

Thank you. I had completely forgotten about that book.

Thanks for the clarification. I thought you were referring to him as a technophile, which I thought he was at first. I realized many years later that I was wrong.

Please say more about that. I was a strong critic of Stoll when the Cuckoo’s Egg came out but have softened my stance on him. He seems like a humanist. What has he said in the interim?

Since joining Blue Sky last week, I’ve been followed by a lot of accounts that have profile pictures of women in skimpy outfits and that are promoting various crypto schemes. I block them.

It’s telling that someone who is so successful, by the metrics our society uses to judge people, is so in need of affirmation. We really need to examine our values.

Being the first round, with top seeds playing bottom seeds, some disparity is expected. But, yeah, these games have been lopsided.

I remember you talking about that when you came home from work. What a privilege. What an amazing player.

I just hope the shooter wasn’t influenced by the story.