The banshee’s hair pick

There’s been a Scheme sight­ing, and this hair pick has some­thing to do with it:

hair-pick

Read the story over at Sig­nif­i­cant Objects. Then, two things:

  • You can bid on the hair pick on eBay, and the pro­ceeds go to 826 National, the writ­ing pro­gram founded by Dave Eggers. Might be cool to hold a real-​​life quan­tum arti­fact in your hands…
  • How am I so sure this is Scheme-​​related? As you’ll see, the story’s nar­ra­tor doesn’t sus­pect it. The thing is, there’s a clue embed­ded in the story; almost a code, really. The first per­son to fig­ure it out and post it in the com­ments here gets a CFRAS t-​​shirt (pic­tured here).

Check it out! Bid on the object! Crack the code!