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The server I’d left behind years ago and have only occasionally posted a .GIF to since was suddenly active with a smooth-voiced DJ welcoming visitors and even had someone streaming FFXI, though in painfully low resolution. One of my old online friends was happy to meet me in person and rested his weary head in my cradled arms, where he confessed he made up the story about losing his brother in Iraq with images from memes. Rajeev Gantela, looking very much like he did when I last saw him—interesting how memory is at once corrupted by time and unaffected by it—came out of the crowd and joined us on our bench to consult my legal opinion of an idea he came up with as a mathematician: he proposed that stores give discounts based upon their customer’s travel distance, so the further away they live, the less they have to pay, as reward and incentive to make the trip. The algorithm would have to take into account multiple locations (not to mention the privacy concerns), I thought, but I told him it could be patented.

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