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Aah - thank you. Maybe I'll check it out. When I have free time. Uh right... Cheers, -Cliff

Once upon a time, MoneGator, things posted to the internet were assumed to be true unless proven otherwise. Oh, how things have inverted!

Thank you Miraclemaker. By luck and coincidence, I've had a lot of fun fooling with the early networks, astronomy, radio, teaching, and topology. Now, as I hear that distant bell t…

Yikes - Yep, I remember your visit -- what a hoot to see that photo. And yep, I'm working on a new quilt: it'll be a recursive design.

Thanks! I've submitted a paper to Black Hat / DefCon; I don't know if it'll be accepted. If so, I'll have fun doing a talk there. I'm volunteering around the Bay Area (up at the St…

Thanks DJ of the East. It's strange to have written a book aimed at grownups and find that astute kids picked up on it. Now, of course, the book's antique: Arpanet? 1200 baud modem…

Sure - if you can buy a few hundred Klein bottles, you'll help my kids with their tuition and whatnot...

Naw, I answer all my emails (and HN postings) by hand, using this trusty Mac. Well, usually trusty. And yep, the dozen or so people who ordered Klein bottles this morning received …

Thank you Two-Bee. I'm happy to report that aside from insomnia, I'm doing well. Needless to say, this silly incident has a serious subtext for me.

Thanks, oh unclothed robot. What brought it all home was when I sent a copy of the almost-finished manuscript to my mom. She called long-distance (an absolute luxury for her) and s…

I'm grateful to be OK as well. Close call there...

Thank you -- one of the joys of running this zero-volume business is meeting visitors to the Bay Area. Every few days, someone stops by. Much fun! Cheers, -Cliff

And yep, there was a huge bump in sales today. Almost a dozen orders. I'll have to buckle down and stop reading Hacker News.

Not me, Jeff! Smiles, -Cliff

Not ripped. Torn.

Oh Jeez, Don! That nuttiness still haunts me five years later. I still cannot sell Klein bottles on the Canadian Amazon site -- the Amazon hijacker somehow held onto the listing fo…

Thank you Andrew - I will pass along your condolences to my family, especially to my wife, Pat, who passed away a year ago.

You betcha, Brudgers: I'm a member of the tribe.

Legitimate answer: Maybe someone has stolen my account on hacker news. Maybe someone has researched who I am, even looking at sources unavailable online. Perhaps they stopped my my…

Makes me feel even older, Benji. I wrote it when I was 38. Now, at 75, I'm astonished at how much has changed online. When I first started fooling with the Arpanet in the early 198…

My bio is empty. Hmmm. I'm giving a talk this Thursday (May 14th at a San Francisco Computer Security group, SFISCA. They asked for a bio. Here's what I wrote: Cliff Stoll graduate…

Open dispute about my death? (pinch myself - yep, it hurts) So how could I convince people that I'm alive and not some AI construct? (do pass along my warm cheers to your nonorient…

Who am I? Given that I've been reported as dead, that's a good question...

Hmmm ... maybe I'm impostering you, My HydroFloric. I either died before, after, or simultaneously with you. (of course, special relativity has something to say about "simultaneous…

Smiles & one-sided cheers to you, Serph. Sure hope your Kleinbot is still working properly.