Acknowledgments
This book would not have seen the light of day without the help of my top-notch editors Andy Oram, Laurie Petrycki, John Posner, and Ellen Siever; the production staff, including Colleen Gorman, Emily Quill, and Ellen Troutman-Zaig; my brilliant reviewers Jeff Liggett, Jon Udell, Anne-Marie Vaduva, Andy Oram, Norm Walsh, and Jessica P. Hekman; my esteemed coworkers Sheryl Avruch, Cliff Dyer, Jason McIntosh, Lenny Muellner, Benn Salter, Mike Sierra, and Frank Willison; Stephen Spainhour for his help in writing the appendixes; and Chris Maden, for the enthusiasm and knowledge necessary to get this project started.
I am infinitely grateful to my wife Jeannine Bestine for her patience and encouragement; my family (mom1: Birgit, mom2: Helen, dad1: Al, dad2: Butch, as well as Ed, Elton, Jon-Paul, Grandma and Grandpa Bestine, Mare, Margaret, Gene, Lianne) for their continuous streams of love and food; my pet birds Estero, Zagnut, Milkyway, Snickers, Punji, Kitkat, and Chi Chu; my terrific friends Derrick Arnelle, Mr. J. David Curran, Sarah Demb, Chris "800" Gernon, John Grigsby, Andy Grosser, Lisa Musiker, Benn "Nietzsche" Salter, and Greg "Mitochondrion" Travis; the inspirational and heroic Laurie Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Wernher von Braun, James Burke, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Chuck Jones, Miyamoto Musashi, Ralph Nader, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Oscar Wilde; and very special thanks to Weber's mustard for making my sandwiches oh-so-yummy.
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