Now the question: Is he Steve Jobs, or one of the many people who make similar decisions but we forget about because they weren't Steve Jobs?

South of the Border! Truly a great East Coast road trip landmark!

Loving this series so far. Also love La Grange, even if I'm not a huge ZZ Top fan, but yeah, the Stones (unlike many bands) have been very open about their influences and occasional borrowings.

Confession: I like the Dead, but definitely prefer their albums to the long jams.

It's always a bit tough to tell (since I can't un-know things when I read them), but at the very least, this book is chock full of spoilers for the previous ones. What I don't know is how accessible the characters are for someone who hasn't read them, but it feels like there's an assumption that people have knowledge about them.

FWIW, the series reads very quickly, so it might be worth grabbing the first book to see if you like the writing style.

Thanks! It's always fun to do a callback.

Sadly, I don't think I've anything really great where btc is also a major factor! The closest (which is not a novel) was True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier, which collects the titular Vernor Vinge story and a number of related essays and stories, but predates btc (even if it's a formative influence in many ways).

I frankly thought that The Mandibles was pretty terrible as a novel, and very few other books seem to have taken on the economic system in any meaningful way (which, to be fair, is not an easy lift).

Yup! When you're a Jets fan, it's important to have a team to look down on.

You'd think with that cap space and draft position, I'd be feeling good about the Jets, but it just creates the opportunity to blow it.

(But hey, maybe they'll pick someone who leads a team to a Super Bowl eight years later.)

Great post! A lot of these sites are ones I've also been to and spent time around, and they're bringing back nice memories.

If you're been around SN for a while, you know that I'm a pretty moderate voice on this stuff. After Saturday, I've crossed over. I now think widespread and enduring civil violence is likely, and I think it's close. Like weeks-to-months close.

I suspect you're right and hope you're wrong. My thinking has gone in the same direction (so I guess I hope I'm wrong, too).

In general, my gut reaction to $5k with no donations is "no chance," but that also depends on where you are (and I'm not asking you to dox, just assuming you've got some sense of your own district). Same goes for winning as an independent. It almost certainly depends on the incumbent and other major party challenger (if both parties have some chance of success -- if you're in Cambridge, MA or Chattanooga, TN, that changes things).

Good plan. Our dog buried herself under the covers when I was reading earlier.

Mariano Rivera was literally the only unanimous vote. Yeah, the writers have always sucked, and likely always will.

AV Club had a piece about this today and I'm definitely intrigued.

Rare picture of Darth:

Yeah, much as I do appreciate the analytics, getting vibe-based voting back would be nice (we technically have it in the negative with folks like Bonds and Clemons, of course). No matter how good stats get, "intangibles" will always exist.

Agreed about Sale -- he's definitely an edge case, and it'll be interesting to see both how his career plays out, and how he's evaluated.