It Started So Innocently But Then...

Genius!
What a rant! I don't know where this came from. Sorry team, we'll try to do better tomorrow.
I think I've talked about Neal Stephenson before, actually, I know I have, I just can't remember when (or which posts), and I don't really want to talk about him again today except for what it means for my larger topic. He did, however, write of the most brilliantly odd books I've ever read in Cryptonomicon, which is a genre defying novel about a code breaker in WWII and his grandson in the...