The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

In addition to the six hard drives making up the primary RAID array, the server has three hot spares ready to automatically take over for any failed drives in the array.

[…] they all crowded into the big pung sleigh, among straw and furry robes.

Along the trails, degus leave mini-urine puddles marking the trail.