Terence EdenNov 8, 2024

🆕 blog! “Angels and Daemons”

A few weeks ago, I was clearing out some ancient backup CDs and floppy disks from my attic when I made a curious discovery. Pressed between a copy of Windows ME and a box-fresh copy of the original Duke Nukem Forever, I found a scratched and decaying Compact Flash cart. It was sticky and oozing […]

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Angels and Daemons

A few weeks ago, I was clearing out some ancient backup CDs and floppy disks from my attic when I made a curious discovery. Pressed between a copy of Windows ME and a box-fresh copy of the original Duke Nukem Forever, I found a scratched and decaying Compact Flash cart. It was sticky and oozing a rusty looking fluid. The writing on the label looked like my handwriting, but was illegible. I…

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@Edent Revenge Of The Mutant Algorithms! Angels and Daemons. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/angels-and-daemons/

A change of pace from the previous instalments: less a story than a piece of meta-level creative writing.

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Mar 20 at 1:12pmWeb
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@Edent Have to say the title is disappointing: it is no doubt a play on the title of Dan Brownʼs novel, but angels do not come into it and the piece refers exclusively to supernatural demons and not to the titular daemons which keep computers running [presumed; but the piece is aimed at techies].

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Show threadBroken SparkMar 20
@Edent The story, such as it is, laments the time an old storage device is discovered, and is found to hold the specs of an extended HTTP for communicating with the underworld: this is aimed squarely at computer scientists in need of some down-time. The piece is basically a series of numbered jokes, comprising lots of funnily mis-appropriated technical terms—love the Infernal Execution Task Force—and imagined discourses, and their consequences, with questionable figures of the underworld.

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