Aaron B. Russell’s personal blog
29 Nov
In the beginning there was the computer. And God said
c:\>Let there be light!
Enter user id.
c:\>God
Enter password.
c:\>Omniscient
Password incorrect. Try again.
c:\>Omnipotent
Password incorrect. Try again.
c:\>Technocrat
And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Sunday, March 1.
c:\>Let there be light!
Unrecognizable command. Try again.
c:\>Create light
Done
c:\>Run heaven and earth
And God created Day and Night. And God saw there were 0 errors.
And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Sunday, March 1.
And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Monday, March 2.
c:\>Let there be firmament in the midst of water and light
Unrecognizable command. Try again.
c:\>Create firmament
Done.
c:\>Run firmament
And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Monday, March 2.
And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Tuesday, March 3.
c:\>Let the waters under heaven be gathered together unto one place
and let the dry land appear and
Too many characters in specification string. Try again.
c:\>Create dry_land
Done.
c:\>Run firmament
And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Tuesday, March 3.
And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Wednesday, March 4.
c:\>Create lights in the firmament to divide the day from the night
Unspecified type. Try again.
c:\>Create sun_moon_stars
Done
c:\>Run sun_moon_stars
And God separated the light from the darkness. The sun ruled over
the day and the moon and stars ruled over the night. And God saw
there were 0 errors.
And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Wednesday, March 4.
And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Thursday, March 5.
c:\>Create fish
Done
c:\>Create fowl
Done
c:\>Run fish, fowl
And God created the great sea monsters and every living creature
that
creepeth wherewith the waters swarmed after its kind and every
winged fowl after its kind. And God saw there were 0 errors.
And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Thursday, March 5.
And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Friday, March 6.
c:\>Create cattle
Done
c:\>Create creepy_things
Done
c:\>Now let us make man in our image
Unspecified type. Try again.
c:\>Create man
Done
c:\>Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it
and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of
the air and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth
Too many command operands. Try again.
c:\>Run multiplication
Execution terminated. 6 errors..
c:\>Insert breath
Done
c:\>Run multiplication
Execution terminated. 5 errors.
c:\>Move man to Garden of Eden
File Garden of Eden does not exist.
c:\>Create Garden.edn
Done
c:\>Move man to Garden.edn
Done
c:\>Run multiplication
Execution terminated. 4 errors.
c:\>Copy woman from man
Done
c:\>Run multiplication
Execution terminated. 2 errors.
c:\>Create desire
Done
c:\>Run multiplication
And God saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in
Garden.edn
Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
c:\>Create freewill
Done
c:\>Run freewill
And God saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in
Garden.edn
Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
c:\>Undo desire
Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
c:\>Destroy freewill
Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
c:\>Help
Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
c:\>Create tree_of_knowledge
And God saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in
Garden.edn
Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
c:\>Create good, evil
Done
c:\>Activate evil
And God saw he had created shame.
Warning system error in sector E95. Man and woman not in
Garden.edn.
1 errors.
c:\>Scan Garden.edn for man, woman
Search failed.
c:\>Delete shame
Shame cannot be deleted once evil has been activated.
c:\>Destroy freewill
Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
c:\>Stop
Unrecognizable command. Try again
c:\>Break
c:\>Break
c:\>Break
>
ATTENTION ALL USERS *** ATTENTION ALL USERS: COMPUTER GOING DOWN
FOR REGULAR DAY OF MAINTENANCE AND REST IN FIVE MINUTES. PLEASE LOG
OFF.
c:\>Create new world
You have exceeded your allocated file space. You must destroy old
files before new ones can be created.
c:\>Destroy earth
Destroy earth: Please confirm.
c:\>Destroy earth confirmed
COMPUTER DOWN *** COMPUTER DOWN. SERVICES WILL RESUME SUNDAY,
MARCH 8 AT 6:00 AM. YOU MUST SIGN OFF NOW.
And God logged off at 11:59:59 PM, Friday, March 6
17 Responses for "1828"
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hihi! I’m popping by because it’s come to my attention that you have an exceedingly similar (read: exactly the same) iPod userpic. I created that userpic myself and it is quite unique in a few ways, and as it is exactly the same file as mine, I would like to ask where you got it from. If you did see me post with it around ‘town’, and decided you liked it and wanted it for yourself, it would have been very polite to ask. As I probably would have said yes, with the provision that you give me a little credit for the work I put in on it. Since I am a lunatic, and I (for some unknown reason) spent quite a bit of time on it.
If you got it from someone ELSE, I would also like to know who. :)
Thanks muchly!
Hi… I got your userpic from someone else, but I don’t know who. It was someone who posted a reply to a post in one of the lj_* communities or the news community or something (and there tends to be several hundred comments on each post in those).
Do you want me to stop using the icon?
my brain hurts
Yeah, I can well imagine.
How did you find my journal, out of curiosity?
it’s jess.
I kind of do want you to stop using it… had someone asked me permission in the first place I probably wouldn’t care, but now I would rather keep it’s spread down… especially since someone basically just asked me, “did you steal this icon from my friend?” in a community, when of course the icon was mine to begin with. Ugh. Usually I’m not so goobery about icons, but I did spent quite a deal of time on it because it was particularly difficult to deal with so many frames. Heh.
I actually really want to know who it originally came from… If you could try to remember the timeframe you aquired it, and possibly narrow down the LJ_* community it was from, I’d really just like to ask the original person who took it about it. I know it’s sort of a lost cause, but this is probably the only damn icon I ever actually cared much about and it’s (or WAS) unique, so… bleh. I am a member of lj_backend, news and lj_maintenance, and I have posted replies in those communities before as well, so… yeah. :(
I only made the damn icon in October, so it boggles me it got out so quickly.
HEYYYYYY!
I was looking through the public posts in your journal and saw a link to IC Radio and remembered you and thought “No, it can’t be… can it?”.
How have you been?! It’s been way too long since I last spoke to you…
I suck and got screwed over and left college with no A-Levels and now I’m a lameass who works in a pub and is trying to get a Foundation Degree next year. Which sucks. But yeah.
Haha, I’m all hyper now… it’s like YAY! Jess!
Every now and again I think of you randomly and I’ve wondered what happened to you. It’s gonna sound really crazy or obsessive or something but I’ve missed you.
Deleted. :)
If you’re a member of lj_maintenance and news, chances are I may have taken it directly from you. Sorry. :(
aww that’s not crazy or obsessive. i see you’re still with kat?! yay!
i just got a new boyfriend, he’s almost (not quite) as geeky as you are. i think hes a whole bunch cleverer though - he’s some kind of freaky genius, doing computing at ic, got 5 as at a2 etc o_O weirdo.
anyway HOW ARE YOU?!?!?!
Yeah, I’ll have been with Cat a year and 5 months on Thursday. Not bad for a first-time relationship, I don’t think. :) YAY!
YAY for Jess having a boyfriend :) I hope he knows how goddamn lucky he is.
I’m okay… got screwed over by college so couldn’t get into Uni, I didn’t move to Seattle, uh, yeah. I suck basically. I’m a failure and now I work in Wetherspoons.
Do you want to meet up sometime for coffee or something and catch up?
I was working out how many gigs I’d been to a couple of weeks ago (12 I think), and I remembered that you took me to my first ever gig. Thank you SO much for getting me started! :)
god damn college! i remember they were trying to fuck you about. you aren’t a failure. ACCESS COURSE, AARON.
hahaha, i’ve been to like, twelve *coopers* gigs :P
went to see chikinki a couple of days ago they’re HOT. ask me for mp3s.
roboticpink @ hotmail if you’re interested in messenger ;)
jessx
Here, I made another from the most recent ad.
Do you want it? I am so very attached to the first icon, but I am happy to share this one. :)
Have at. :) (if you don’t mind giving me a widdle credit as part of the icon descript) :D
You were right.
(Sorry, stumbled upon this post by accident while searching old email.)
damn right i was. im always right. YOU KNOW THAT!
I know. I never should’ve doubted you.
*hangs head in shame*
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