Mostly, Bernie has dabbled. In what? you ask. Well, let's see. He's fiddled with UNIX, he's framed pictures, he's taught college courses and karate classes, he's designed and built networks and generated propaganda for the technical elite masses. He has studied the Great Philosophers and mocked them all. He plays bass and occasionally warbles a bit off-key. He introduced the shinai as an effective and indispensable Internet Salesperson training tool. He's wandered into and out of grad school with naught to show for it but an overinflated sense of self-importance. And, apparently, he's also dabbled with writing. Loki disapproves of this last activity: she looks at the screen, then at Bernie's face, then sighs deeply and lays her adorably furry head across the keyboard. Enough, she says. And then: Feed me.