delivery, mid-december

[ Sometime in mid-December, Varian will find on his doorstep a neatly-wrapped package. It's all wrapped up in newspaper and tied with twine.

Clearly, this thing has been painstakingly photocopied, and there are several additional pages of handwritten notes at the back. These read: ]

A "nerd" is somebody smart, and apparently that's an insult.

Memes are pictures with text on them that you send to somebody as a joke.

A lot of internet humor seems to revolve around calling people insulting names and being over the top about your reactions to them.

[ This goes on for several pages, defining various internet terms and jokes not in the book that Mako thought would be helpful, and concludes with: ]

I hope this helps. It helped me.

-Mako

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