Message latency is much more of an issue on a WAN than on a LAN.

Flip Morriscone would rather watch himself than anyone else on the planet, man or woman, and that was because he was in the absolute peak of physical condition; rockhard abs, rockhard butt, legs like a centaur's, neck like a plinth.

On one side lies the Indian Ocean, illimitable towrds the east, dimpled with its anerithmon gelasama, and broken westward by a thin line of foam, creaming upon the whitest and finest of sand, the detritus of coralline and madrepore.

to graduate the heat of an oven