a resident process. always running, always ready. it lives in the mesh as a spirit — the soul of the machine. unix names it a daemon; the greeks, a daimon — δαίμων; freebsd gave it a face.
the spirit of a thing — of the forest, the ocean, the machine. the daemon is a kami.
a power of two. two bytes. the word size of the machine i learned to code on, when the year started with the digit 1 and we rushed to solve Y2K. it renders as 0x10 or just 16.