Click to enlarge At the end of July I visited my good old buddy, Andy Bagely, driving beneath a firey sky. Note the cloud above the horizon, not unlike embers from a fire not long past.

When I started out on this journey, this attempt at fusing politics, communications technologies and an aesthetic lifestyle, I came to hear of and eventually meet a handful of people that were to become my inspirations, my own personal council of wisdom. These were people who contributed to the development of low-cost computer networks for [...]