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<h1>Street Geek</h1>
<p id="sg1-deck">Notes from the front lines of hacker haute couture.</p>
<p id="sg1-byline">By <strong>Bram Noidz</strong></p>
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My day in meatspace wasn't going well. I woke up in the late morning and acquired the day's
outfit using my usual clothing drawer LIFO mechanism. This week's permutation of clothing in the
drawer left me with a depressingly common combination: black t-shirt with black jeans. I thought
for a brief second that I should break out of the LIFO ordering and make a daring attempt at a
more arbitrarily stylish outfit. Brief panic attack. Ultimately I decided against it. <i>The
purpose of a system is what it does.</i> If I decide for even one day to ignore my LIFO
clothing system, then it really is no system at all.
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<p>
I hobbled downstairs in my algorithmically chosen outfit and made a cup of coffee. Double
espresso with a bit of hot water mixed in. While reading something on my computer, I
accidentally spilled about half of the coffee onto my shirt. Luckily for me, the stains were
practically invisible on the black t-shirt, and very little ended up on my pants. The only
evidence that I had spilled something on myself that morning was the faint coffee smell that
lingered after I mopped it up. But who doesn't love the smell of coffee? I actually wouldn't
mind a cologne with the scent of the glorious roasted bean imbued into it. Similar to the
clickety-clack sound of the mechanical keyboard, the coffee cologne might have the Pavlovian
effect of stimulating the electronic productivity of the people around you. Free idea for any of
our young entrepreneurial readers out there.
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<p>
You might be wondering why I spent more time than usual at this time of the morning thinking
about what I'm wearing. Today, I am meeting my friend <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> for lunch at the vegan
restaurant <i>Cha-Ya</i> on Valencia. <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> is a one-of-a-kind genius level programmer
that I met on an IRC channel one evening. This guy slings code so neat and clean, he puts Linus
Torvalds and that guy who made the <i>McMaster-Carr</i> catalog website to shame. I had never
met <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> A.F.K. before. Therefore, needless to say, I felt intimidated and eager to
please.
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<div id="sg1-pullquote">&ldquo;The purpose of a system is what it does.&rdquo;</div>
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I got to <i>Cha-Ya</i> a little bit early and ordered a green tea while waiting for
<span class="computer">ByteLord</span> to arrive. I spilled a little bit of this on my shirt as well. Unfortunately
now, mixed with the coffee stain from earlier, the combination gave off a toilet smell that was
quite unpleasant. I started praying that <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> had a cold and wouldn't be able to
smell anything. Luckily the stains were still mostly invisible on my black t-shirt.
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When <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> walked in the front door, I almost mistook him for one of those cool
hip-hopper guys. He was decked out from head to toe and looked <i>on fleek</i>.
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