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From Dave in my basement, redux
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<p>Dave Taht is crashing in my basement again. While he’s here Dave is planning to cut another release of <a href="http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt">CeroWRT</a> (the third one to issue from this basement, actually), and he has decided it needs a name.</p>
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<p>And, well, “the release from ESR’s basement” just lacks a certain…zing.</p>
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<p>Obviously, this means my <em>basement</em> needs a name. Something it probably should have acquired sooner, actually, as it is a rather storied locale. Often a resting place for traveling hackers weary of the wars; home to one of the larger collections of SF east of the Misty Mountains, and (as a commenter once <a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4162&cpage=1#comment-373268">noted</a>) “obviously part of a previously unmapped tunnel between the Great Underground Empire and Colossal Cave”</p>
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<p>So we have decided to name the basement after its most frequent inhabitant. Yes, that would be the entity most likely to sleep on top of <em>you</em> if you’re sleeping in the daybed…our very own fuzz elemental and companion-to-hackers, Sugar. (Who must telepathically know I am writing about her as she has just materialized in my desk well to snuggle up to my right foot.)</p>
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<p>So, um, when you see that the next CeroWRT release is tagged “Sugarland”, do not think of a town in Texas or a valley in the Great Smoky Mountains. Somewhere in Malvern, a cat is purring. And she purrs just for you. Or your router. Whatever….</p>
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