cryptonomicon – Moe Lane

#rsrh The death of Yamamoto, and other valuable life lessons for countries.

Like Eugene Volokh and (I’m guessing) Ed Driscoll, I appreciate this scene (Yamamoto’s death*) from Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon. In fact, I do not actually think that it is possible to enjoy Cryptonomicon without also appreciating this scene.

At least, it’d be hard, and possibly perverse.

Moe Lane

Continue reading #rsrh The death of Yamamoto, and other valuable life lessons for countries.

I have just spent two hours trying to get Genesis to work.

Unsuccessfully.

You know, my copy of Cryptonomicon was published in 1999, and it still works perfectly well ten years later. Is it too much to ask that software show a similar amount of foresight?