“Actually we roll our own,” says Jedrey.

“Wow, you’ve got to be pretty serious if you roll your own,” says Nesson, with no sign that he’s joking.

Nesson soon goes downstairs to turn on the sprinklers outside, and Fern begins talking about the two of them.

“We met in 1969 at the Law School when I was a student,” she says, looking toward the basement door after hearing a loud thud from the pipes and a yell from Nesson before continuing on.

“We’ve been married for about 30 years and have two kids, Rebecca and Leila.”

Soon Nesson comes upstairs, saying that the pipe to the sprinklers is broken.

“In what way?” she asks.

“In the way that you turn it on and water rushes out of the pipe onto the floor.”

“I’ll call the plumber again,” she says.

Internet and Society

Plumbing aside, Nesson has spent the last 20 years becoming one of the world’s leading experts in technology and its relationship to the law.

In 1981 he went on a sabbatical that got tangled up with the other side of the law.

“I got an early IBM PC and it came with BASIC,” Nesson recounts. “I programmed the machine to play five-card draw jacks-or-better poker and I loved it, figuring out how to make it deal and shuffle the cards. I was able to sell that and buy a summer house.”

“I am sad to say, [the company] was subsequently indicted for manufacturing illegal gambling equipment,” Nesson writes on his website.