Jan 14
Click for larger imageThe Bookkeeper Comments: Being wrapped in metal foil like a baked potato was a poor clothing choice for burning day.
Published 1998
(Average: 7.24 out of 10)
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The Bookkeeper Comments: Being wrapped in metal foil like a baked potato was a poor clothing choice for burning day.
Published 1998
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January 14th, 2019 at 8:32 am
It’s really starting to heat up in this chat room.
January 14th, 2019 at 9:56 am
“What are you doing?! Just turn it off and turn it on again!”
January 14th, 2019 at 10:27 am
Seriously folks, this whole burning thing would have been a lot easier if you just gone with an iMac.
January 14th, 2019 at 11:03 am
Those damn lithium batteries
January 14th, 2019 at 11:20 am
Hey Everyone its November the 6th – AMSTRAD DAY ! Drinks are in the olde BAEN Tavern .
January 14th, 2019 at 1:48 pm
If Spider Robinson books have a spider on the cover then Ursula K. Le Guin books should have Ursula Andress.
January 14th, 2019 at 2:05 pm
Deep Blue never learned the most important thing about chess: let the king win.
January 14th, 2019 at 2:21 pm
Condemned as a heretic by the cruel minions of Pope Abacus III, Joan of Atari meets her flaming end, yet, the legend lives on!
January 14th, 2019 at 2:54 pm
Why is the mag-tape cabinet tied to the stake? Can it move unaided?
January 14th, 2019 at 3:02 pm
The IT field has seen a lot of religious wars. over the years. This could be the Richard Stallman user revolt of the early nineteen eighties.
January 14th, 2019 at 3:24 pm
I thought I’d seen every episode of ‘The Goodies’.
January 14th, 2019 at 4:09 pm
Stupid, but works. It makes me curious why the pope is having an inanimate object burned at the stake, chained down like he expects it to scuttle around biting people. Whoever sold him this scapegoat, he fell for it hard!
Checking reviews, the book of course contains nothing of the sort. It’s a collection of brutal essays, short stories and rap(yes).
January 14th, 2019 at 4:21 pm
Where is this? If you made a bonfire in Ludlow, Norwich or York there’d be preservation orders on all the thatched Tudorbethan buildings that earn so much tourist revenue stopping you.
The reason so few towns in England look like this now is idiots being careless with burning torches. Why not go out into a muddy field, close to a ducking-stool?
(That’s a point, how do they know the computer’s a witch? Did it float?)
January 14th, 2019 at 5:32 pm
Ray P @9:
“Is your computer running?”
“No, we’ve got it pretty well chained up.”
The knight in front somewhat puzzles me: judging from his modern-style glasses and the fact his cloak seems to have a picture of a bug (computer bug?) on it, he’s a time traveler: shouldn’t he be on the computer’s side? Or perhaps to save himself he threw the computer under the bus, er, hay wagon.
Also, what is he looking at? Does he see the approaching computo-cavalry in the distance?
January 14th, 2019 at 5:39 pm
I’ve seen this movie. In the present day, laptops and iPads seek revenge on the descendants of those who burned their ancestor.
January 14th, 2019 at 6:45 pm
Fahrenheit 404
January 14th, 2019 at 8:06 pm
@Daard23: GSS
January 15th, 2019 at 1:32 am
@Tat It has floating point operations.
@Bruce I read decades ago of an old disk storage unit, the size of a washing machine, which would creep across the lab if sent the correct series of disk access instructions.
January 15th, 2019 at 6:21 am
I want to see the “Spanish Inquisition” tag retro-applied.
Torch dude in armor looks a LOT like Spider, but I’ve never known him to support organized religion, burning anything at the stake, or wearing armor.
@Ray P: I saw this demonstrated once. It was tough on the unit, so it was only done late at night, when supervisor types were absent.
@Daard: GSS.
@Monty: I’m not surprised.
January 15th, 2019 at 7:36 am
Someone needs to find this one out in the wild.
(caution: no Space Sheep provided)
http://awfullibrarybooks.net/friday-fiction-venusia/
January 15th, 2019 at 3:40 pm
Tell us Famputer. Where are all the sexy amazon women!
January 17th, 2019 at 8:25 pm
GSS ex-noob Says:
January 15th, 2019 at 6:21 am
I want to see the “Spanish Inquisition” tag retro-applied…
*CRASH* [SURPRISE JINGLE]
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
January 17th, 2019 at 8:26 pm
By the way, excellent jokes in this thread until I showed up. Hat’s off to you! 🙂
April 6th, 2022 at 1:43 am
Wha???
Oh, it’s Baen, never mind then….