I'm a lasagna boy!

In which I day-dream about automobiles

Cars I once thought I would like to own:

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  1971 Mercedes 280SEC
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  1956 Nash Metropolitan(and it probably would have its hood up most of the time!)
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  1984 Toyota LandCruiser FJ60
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  Volvo 122 waggon (I did have a 1984 Volvo 240GL waggon, which is also quite splendid)

I did (briefly) drive a burgundy-and-black Mercedes, aka Blinky, which "smelled like money" according to one of my neighbours: now all I have left is the three-cone pininfarina air horn and a single fog lamp (the other flew off somewhere on the road between Breezewood and DC); the Volvo, known during its brief life as Moby; and Winnie the Poopmobile, a handsome brown FJ60 which spent more time on the back of a tow-truck than actually off road anywhere.

In which multicast is our king

Stuart Cheshire, designer of Zero-Configuration Networking (that's RFC 3927 to you IETF fans out there) quoted Antoine de Saint-Exupéry today with respect to protocol design: "You know that you have finished not when there is nothing left to add to the protocol, but when there is nothing left to take away from the protocol." Saint-Exupéry was an aviator, and I suspect that he was referring specifically to aircraft design when he said that "La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien à enlever." I think the same applies to bicycles!