Sunday, February 16, 2014

*disk and jAn3 *

A while ago [before  USENET died] I was a regular in a Cyberpunk Writers dive called alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo

The rules were you had to either post Cyberpunk [science] fiction or you had to post "in character" as a Cyberpunk Character. Eventually we collaborated to sell two anthologies of fiction: The Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo.Anthology We never saw a dime but at least the promotional site was paid for...

In any case I would upon occasion post a story or a poem like the one below.

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*disk and jAn3 *

See disk and jAn3
See jAn3 mount disk.
/dev/hd1

See disk spin!
Spin, disk spin!
Round and Round.

See disk light flicker
Flash! Flash! Flash!
Boot disk boot.

See jAn3 access disk.
Hear disk's head move!
Clickity! Clackity! Click!

See disk! 
See, disk go. 
Go, disk go!

Hear disk seek
Hear disk seek for jAn3.
Plink! Plonk! Plunk!

Look!
disk has found bytes
disk bytes jAn3

See jAn3
jAn3 is angry!
Yell! jAn3, Yell!

jAn3 is going to get even.
See jAn3 hack the code
Hack, jAn3 hack!

See jAn3 smile
See jAn3 save code
See jAn3 save code on disk

See code.
See code compile.
Compile code, compile!

See jAn3 at command prompt
Hear jAn3's black vinyl shine
Squeek! Squeek! Squeek!

See jAn3 smile
See jAn3 execute command
Die, command Die!

See disk go crash! 
Crash, disk
crash!


+++++++++++++++ fini +++++++++++++++

Who says cyberpunks don't have a sense of humor?