King of the hackers
The reason that we were standing on a doorstep was because Mudge was smoking a cigarette, which he held between his third and fourth fingers -- a style that I hadn't seen since I left Los Angeles 12 years earlier. Indeed, Mudge looked like a character from bygone times with his beard and moustache, long hair flowing down past his shoulders -- a younger image of the guys I used to hang with back when I was the junior dude in an OS development group in the late 1970s.
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