As I write, the letters are traveling across CMU's wireless network. Yup, I got my laptop's wireless ethernet working.. and also found that the kernel update redhat did just renamed the module I needed for my wired ethernet card to keep working (bcm4400 -> b44), and whatever crazy scripts they use to manage that stuff was out of sync, so it didn't automagically load it. So, right now I do have two invocations I can use, one to load my wireless card, the other to load my ethernet. More trouble than I'd like, but it's not too bad.

And in its hand was the orb that had captured all the oddity of the world, keeping things more simple. The experiment at its next stage, it tilted the hand, the delicate instruments whirring as they approached the ground. A flash, and a quiet ripple. Time for observation, a social study.