At least, I was...bored by the books, I mean.

From Annoyances.org:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-207


Bob Dog


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Bill Gates and the CD of Power

Of course, we have to have a Lord of the Rings reference:

Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a
visit. I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows
on my PC, told him how happy I was with this operating
system and showed him the Windows CD. To my astonishment
and distress he threw it into my micro-wave oven and
turned it on.

I was upset because the CD had become precious to me,
but he said "Do not worry, it is unharmed." After a few
minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said "Take
a close look at it."

To my surprise the CD was quite cold and it seemed to
have become thicker and heavier than before. At first I
could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the
central hole I saw an inscription, in lines finer than
anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone
piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great
depth.

4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C204F6E65204F5320746F
2066696E64207468656D2C0D0A4F6E65204F5320746F206272696E67207468656D20
616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062696E64207468656D

"I cannot read the fiery letters," I said. "No," he said,
"But I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but
the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter
here. But in common English this is what it says"

"One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."