Jesus H. Christ on a Disk!

So, checking out the Waxy memestream I run across this Wikipedia article on Leetspeak, from which I finally learn that pwnzored = owned, as in dominated, hacked, etc. (Hey, I gotta learn this stuff somewhere.) For those of you unfamiliar with Wikipedia, think "open source encyclopedia". Very cool. I've actually been thinking about making an image of it part of the prototype for CFY's computers, because that way families could use it even if they don't have Internet access. But it takes up about 2 gigs. (Do you know how long it takes to unpack 2 gigs of files? A long time, that's how long.) And we've only got 4-6 gig hard drives, so that's out for now.

Anyway, at the bottom of the said Wiki article is a link to the New Hacker Version, an attempt by the Christian Hackers' Association to translate the Bible into l33t. Really!

And at the bottom of that, a reference to Christ on a Disk, which puts the whole King James Version of the Bible onto a single floppy disk. You can read about his compression techniques here. It should really be listed on TinyApps, no?

So I think that's going to be my new swear phrase when I stub my toe. No more "Jesus H. Christ on a Popsicle Stick!" It's "Christ on a Disk!" from here on in!

Actually, I've tried to stop swearing by Jesus. It hardly seems very Jewish of me. Instead, when I stub my toe, you'll hear me swear "Mother Goddess Cybele!" Which has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

[Update: COD is now mentioned on TinyApps thanks to Yours Truly. Connecting the Internet, one link at a time.]



M E-L posted this on August 2, 2004 10:29 PM

This post is filed under: Computers & Internet, Odds & Ends
Comments
Ennis wrote:

Can't you simply give it out on a DVD w/ a compression utility?

Comment #1 :: link :: August 3, 2004 12:02 AM :: homepage
M E-L wrote:

They only get CD drives.

Comment #2 :: link :: August 3, 2004 7:19 AM :: homepage
ms wrote:

Mother Goddess Cybele would be a pagan reference, which from a theological point of view is worse than Jesus.

Comment #3 :: link :: August 3, 2004 10:38 AM
Bud wrote:

Excellent entry!

God bless you, M E-L. And God bless Armenia. I mean America.

No, maybe I really do mean Armenia. Ah, Hell! God bless us, every one!

Comment #4 :: link :: August 3, 2004 11:34 AM :: homepage
Ennis wrote:

Thata's what I meant, can't it be compressed onto single CD (it's all text) and then the CD would have the compression utility built in so thta it could be read in place?

Comment #5 :: link :: August 3, 2004 6:43 PM :: homepage
ME-L wrote:

Good question -- do you want to code it?

Comment #6 :: link :: August 4, 2004 11:53 AM
Ennis wrote:

Most of the compression utilities have a built in executable format, i.e. you can just click on the file and it expands. Ask Jay ;)

p.s. why didn't the spambots pick on the one post recently that was about sex?

p.p.s. in both ofyour comments, you're asking if I'm volunteering my *ahem* services ...

Comment #7 :: link :: August 4, 2004 7:12 PM :: homepage
M E-L wrote:

So why is swearing by Cybele worse than swearing by Jesus?

Comment #8 :: link :: August 5, 2004 8:02 AM :: homepage
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