content: 2026-07-17 capture run — 26 finds across 9 productive sources

Shortlisted 11; review candidates: porcelain-room-aranjuez, we-are-rewind-pink-floyd-cassette, best-made-sailors-knife. Dedup caught 11 re-serves from 07-16 before writing, plus 2 items re-served after being dropped on the bar yesterday (Samsung Music Studio 5, Project AirLink pants) — dropped again on the same grounds. Verification corrected the record on three finds: Gear Patrol's Sailor's Knife hook was wrong (the century-old salvaged Cumarú is the handle, pulled from the Panama Canal after 113 years under water — the blade is new Robert Herder stainless); the Armenia "Donatello" is studio-of, not autograph; the Transformers set is a September preorder. Two vendor stats omitted as unverifiable. hock (A.Word.A.Day) dropped on the alcohol rule despite a strong etymology story. Amazon: 2 links added, 2 dropped on the same-model rule. Sources: no maintenance changes; 3 Reddit subs held on 429 throttling (not skipped — r/macapps succeeded from the same host). 2 new nominees.
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+name: "Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor"
+subtitle: "From his 2008 novel Little Brother, not a stray aphorism"
+date: 2026-07-17
+link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/gamy.html"
+linkText: "wordsmith.org"
+source: "A.Word.A.Day"
+topics: [words-and-humor]
+tags: [quote, cory-doctorow, technology]
+description: "A.Word.A.Day's daily quote from Cory Doctorow, traced to page 87 of his 2008 novel Little Brother rather than an essay."
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+"Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor." Cory Doctorow wrote the line in *Little Brother* (2008), his novel about a San Francisco teenager outmaneuvering post-9/11 homeland-security surveillance — it's on page 87, part of the story itself rather than a stray aphorism borrowed from an essay. It's since traveled well beyond the book, recycled in his own DRM and hacking essays and passed around as generic advice, usually stripped of the source.