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• Religion: Agnostic. Atheist. Non-observant Jewish.
  Neo-pagan. Very commonly, three or more of these are combined in the same person....
• Ceremonial Chemicals: Most hackers don't smoke tobacco
  and use alcohol in moderation if at all (though there is a visible contingent of exotic-beer fanciers, and a few hackers are serious oenophiles)....
• micro-: pref. 1. Very small; this is the root of its use as a quantifier prefix.
  2. A quantifier prefix, calling for multiplication by 10^(-6) (see {{quantifiers}})....
• ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
  The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer....
• General Appearance: Intelligent. Scruffy. Intense.
  Abstracted. Surprisingly for a sedentary profession, more hackers run to skinny than fa...
• etwork, the: n. 1. The union of all the major noncommercial
  academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, {BITNET}, and the virtual UUCP and {USENET} `networks', plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them....
• Sexual Habits: Hackerdom easily tolerates a much wider range of sexual and lifestyle variation than the mainstream culture.
  It includes a relatively large gay and bisexual contingent....
• whalesong: n. The peculiar clicking and whooshing sounds made by a PEP modem such as the Telebit Trailblazer as it tries to synchronize with another PEP modem for their special high-speed mode.
  This sound isn't anything like the normal two-tone handshake between conventional modems and is instantly recognizable to anyone who has heard it more than once....
• Discordianism: /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ n. The veneration of {Eris}, a.
  k.a. Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularized by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "{Illuminatus!...