"His name was Norman Palm. He could spell in binary code and was one semester away from his degree at UCLA ... The most harrowing moment of his life was the time he was nearly arrested at a California DMV office for insisting his home address really was '127.0.0.1.' His favorite book was The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll, and his favorite movie was The Matrix. For all the actors he could have picked, he liked Doris Day." (Chapter 11)