Sounds great to me — but I already like herring.

I'm the same age as you.. also tried to teach myself to code from those books. Now an attorney who can barely do arithmetic in his head.

A few years ago I posted a rant on Facebook about how much better Word Perfect was compared to Microsoft Word. Someone asked me what Word Perfect was. I felt old (still do).

My CPA father used Lotus until IBM stopped making it. I'm sure people sent him Excel files so there must have been a way to convert them.

Sounds like that's the author's point.

It has to be by agreement with the host country.

It reinforced Phillip's doubts about the agriculture mission in general. He already wondered out loud to Elizabeth why the USSR couldn't just grow enough of its own quality grain. Now he gets Morozov in an unguarded moment and he tells Phillip just how dysfunctional the food system is.

I think they looked at her as Martha II. Lonely single woman, few friends, why wouldn't she be looking for someone etc.

My closed-captioning identified it as Serbo-Croatian.

I think they are considered hipster-y.

They already caught him lying. I don't think it's disputed that the company is doing some kind of super-secret work for the government. All in all it makes sense that he was that nervous.

Well he did get that number for them from his Rolodex. Then they killed him.

Both contacted men were both Soviets. Stan and Aderholt were making cold contacts, either in a general effort to cultivate new assets now that Nina and Oleg are gone, or specifically to try to get info on Gaad's death. They work for counterintelligence, so there's no reason they'd be investigating their own…

Brezhnev had been GS for almost two decades, he took over right after Khrushchev, who was there during JFK's presidency and the Cuban Missile Crisis. That's part of why the consecutive deaths of Andropov and Chernenko were so jarring.

I thought he looked scared shitless, but not by his conscience.

It's like the Reagan assassination attempt episode. There really was a lot of confusion after the shooting, like Secretary of State Alexander Haig appearing to try to take control improperly, an unusual number of Soviet submarines off the Atlantic coast, etc. This is why the show is great historical fiction, it takes…

My CPA father used Lotus until just a few years ago. He might have been their last customer.

Paige is also a member of a left-leaning church interested in nuclear disarmament. Not all American kids hated the Soviets. I knew they were our cold war adversary but I didn't hate them.

There's no evidence we developed anything like that, but our wheat exports to the USSR were in reality of low quality and could have been bug-infested. So the KGB could have thought that we were doing something intentional.

My local Fox affiliate still does this.