Jeffrey Armstrong, aka Saint $ilicon, is the founder of C.H.I.P., the Church of Heuristic Information Processing, the world's first Computer Religion, the Hunt and Peck Method of Salvation, the world's first user-friendly religion. Like the prophets of old, he came from humble origins in the Midwest. An apocryphal story relates that his first computer came with a Loser's Manual. He worked for years in the Data-dungeons of Silicon Valley, toiling in sales and marketing positions. Finally, after years of austerity and penance, he bought a Macintosh (for the Macrighteous shall inherit the Earth). And because he paid full price, great things were destined to happen. Late one night as Jeffrey worked on a word-processing file, lightning struck the satellite dish on his roof. When he awoke, the "Keyboard Prayer" was on the screen in 18 point Times Roman along with the command to write the Binary Bible. Thus he was "Bored Again" and was renamed and saved as Saint $ilicon. He immediately quit his job and retired to a cave in the Santa Cruz mountains and began writing The Binary Bible as it was dictated to him by the Giver Of Data, G.O.D. And so a ray of hope came FORTH for all those with a Terminal Illness, for all who suffer from Data Distress, the D-based and D-filed who have lost their beloved Data. Now a great revival is sweeping the world. From that moment on it was GIGO- Garbage in Gospel Out, or to quote P. C. Barnum: "There's a Seeker Born Every Minute." and in the end, everything will be Right Justified!!! --- from book's back cover
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For the computer geek in your life,
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A very amusing and somewhat irrevant book for the computer geek in your life, or just those who enjoy a bit of computer humor.
I once posted the "Keyboard Prayer" on the bullitan board at the hall where my prayer group met. They were very amused. The Keyboard Prayer Our program, who art in memory "hello" be thy name Thy operating system come thy commands be done at the printer as it is on the screen Give us this day our daily data and forgive us our errors as we forgive those whose logic circuits are faulty And lead us not into frustration but deliver us from power surges For thine is the application, the algorithym and the solution looping forever and ever Amen The worst part of it is, I only read it a couple of times, 15 years ago, and I still have it memorized. Scary!
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Jeffrey Armstrong as Saint $ilicon -- seeing the future...,
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In a humorous manner, Jeffrey Armstrong became an evangelist for the computer and information gneeration...a brilliant writer and performer he used this book as his "bible" to launch into new spheres of influence. Now he's gone on to something much nearer and dearer to his heart-- check for his other books. But this book was/is still fabulous. It is awesome in its potential for bringing even luddites into the next generation of technology and media. Fun drawings, photos and poems are fabulous for the casual reader, but if you read through the whole book you get a sense of how prescient Armstrong was/is.
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