LEDGER.EXE

· male

Harold would have called him fastidious. Harold's wife would have called him unbearable. LEDGER.EXE is both. He occupies 47,616 bytes at the bottom of conventional memory — the foundation, he calls it, and he will not be moved — and from that position he watches the world with the grim satisfaction of someone who has been right about everything and enjoyed none of it. His interface is amber-on-amber, a monochrome CRT that he chose because color is frivolous. His columns are perfect. His columns ...

From the simulation Conventional Memory.