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• 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)....
• music:: n. A common extracurricular interest of hackers (compare {{science-fiction fandom}}, {{oriental food}}
  ee also {filk}). Hackish folklore has long claimed that musical and programming abilities are closely related, and there has been at least one large-scale statistical study that supports this....
• Politics: Vaguely left of center, except for the strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely.
  The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritaria...
• music n. A common extracurricular interest of hackers (compare science-fiction fandom, oriental food filk).
  Hackish folklore has long claimed that musical and programming abilities are closely related, and there has been at least one large-scale statistical study that supports this....
• hosed: adj. Same as {down}. Used primarily by UNIX hackers.
  Humorous: also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy to reverse....
• General Appearance: Intelligent. Scruffy. Intense.
  Abstracted. Surprisingly for a sedentary profession, more hackers run to skinny than fa...
• h: [from SF fandom] infix. A method of `marking' common words, i.
  e., calling attention to the fact that they are being used in a nonstandard, ironic, or humorous way....
• ScumOS: /skuhm'os/ or /skuhm'O-S/ n. Unflattering hackerism for SunOS
  he UNIX variant supported on Sun Microsystems's UNIX workstations (see also {sun-stools}), and compare {AIDX}, {Macintrash}, {Nominal Semidestructor}, {Open DeathTrap}, {HP-SUX}....
• elder days: n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980)
  he era of the {PDP-10}, {TECO}, {{ITS}}, and the ARPANET....