Oh wait, Cliff Stoll is in the house?? Wow. Whoda thunk. Dr Stoll -- if you're reading this -- your book _The Cuckoo's Egg_ made such a lasting impression on t

Oh wait, Cliff Stoll is in the house?? Wow. Whoda thunk. Dr Stoll -- if you're reading this -- your book _The Cuckoo's Egg_ made such a lasting impression on this young, precocious teen, who read everything in he could lay his hands on. This is the very late 80s or early 90s - and I had read some excerpts in _Reader's Digest_, out in the middle of nowhere, in a village in India. It (among other books) inspired me to study computer networking in my undergrad (thank the IITs) and started my career in the networking industry. When I found myself in the US in the mid-90s, with barely a few dollars in my wallet, yours was the first book I purchased from that lonely bookstore in the strip mall in Los Angeles. I was so poor that I had to choose between getting my copy of the book, or a half-a-week's worth of dinner. I chose the former, and it made all the difference. It still sits here on my shelf, now accompanied by a few hundred other books, but it will always have a special place in my heart. To be honest, I contemplated a career in security, but other fields called my name. FWIW, I now work on autonomous vehicles. Yours is a book I gift any one of my friends/nephews/nieces who I think has the potential to be inspired. So far, I've given it to about half a dozen people. FWIW, when I read the _Silicon Snake Oil_, I wasn't impressed as much.. But over the years I have come to respect the sentiments behind it. Life is better, far richer, outside, and with a few loved ones, than in front of the computer, whatever form it may have taken. I believe a lot of people have come to the same conclusion, with or without agreeing with your theses. Now that I am in the Bay Area (twists of fortune), I would love to get myself one of your Klein Bottles. <3