"The great Father Zed, Archiblogopoios"
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Fr. John Hunwicke
"Some 2 bit novus ordo cleric"
- Anonymous
"Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a traditionalist blogger who has never shied from picking fights with priests, bishops or cardinals when liturgical abuses are concerned."
- Kractivism
"Father John Zuhlsdorf is a crank"
"Father Zuhlsdorf drives me crazy"
"the hate-filled Father John Zuhlsford" [sic]
"Father John Zuhlsdorf, the right wing priest who has a penchant for referring to NCR as the 'fishwrap'"
"Zuhlsdorf is an eccentric with no real consequences" -
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- Michael Sean Winters
"Fr Z is a true phenomenon of the information age: a power blogger and a priest."
- Anna Arco
“Given that Rorate Coeli and Shea are mad at Fr. Z, I think it proves Fr. Z knows what he is doing and he is right.”
- Comment
"Let me be clear. Fr. Z is a shock jock, mostly. His readership is vast and touchy. They like to be provoked and react with speed and fury."
- Sam Rocha
"Father Z’s Blog is a bright star on a cloudy night."
- Comment
"A cross between Kung Fu Panda and Wolverine."
- Anonymous
Fr. Z is officially a hybrid of Gandalf and Obi-Wan XD
- Comment
Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a scrappy blogger popular with the Catholic right.
- America Magazine
RC integralist who prays like an evangelical fundamentalist.
-Austen Ivereigh on
Twitter
[T]he even more mainline Catholic Fr. Z. blog.
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Deus Ex Machina
“For me the saddest thing about Father Z’s blog is how cruel it is.... It’s astonishing to me that a priest could traffic in such cruelty and hatred.”
- Jesuit homosexualist James Martin to BuzzFeed
"Fr. Z's is one of the more cheerful blogs out there and he is careful about keeping the crazies out of his commboxes"
- Paul in comment at
1 Peter 5
"I am a Roman Catholic, in no small part, because of your blog.
I am a TLM-going Catholic, in no small part, because of your blog.
And I am in a state of grace today, in no small part, because of your blog."
- Tom in
comment
"Thank you for the delightful and edifying omnibus that is your blog."-
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- Mark Shea
What would hit my “just too cool” threshold would be if they made the USB Blu-ray to look like the old tape player storage device (or even like the 5-1/4″ single-sided floppy disk drive)
We weren’t Commode Door fans back in the day (we date back to the old PDPs) but this is still highly diverting.
What I liked: http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ibm5150.jpg
IMHO, what made the C64 cool was it’s terrible graphics and Space Invaders. Without them, it’s just a high tech eyesore.
What’s next…Trash-80 Mod I? (Full disclosure…ran a BBS from 1978 to 1984 on one from the Bronx…first one in that borough…4 5.25″ 77KB (!) floppies, 48K (!) RAM, and 1200 baud.) Still have it, it still boots up under TRSDOS. Old computers are the best…and how far we’ve come, right?
Atari vs Commodore 64 Wars veterans, anyone?
I still have my C64, and yes, it still works! I did have to crack open the shell and replace a fuse in it, but other than that it is as good as new. I wish I still had the cassette tape recorder external storage unit tho …
Scaron,
My grandma still has hers and it works perfectly, although the 5 1/2″ floppy for Hangman doesn’t work. :(
It should be in a museum; it’s so old, but last year she decided she wanted to get it hooked up to the Internet so she could start emailing. Oh, grandma :-)
I had a Commodore Amiga back in my grad student days but sold it in a “moving” garage sale in 1997. Hard to imagine how we thought these were actually worth the $1700.00 price tag given that a “not-so-smart” phone has about 1000 times the computing power now… I guess it all depends on what you expect.
I would like to see a retro-version of the TRS-80 as a laptop… it was a “portable” computer in much the same way that a Fender-Rhodes 88 was a “portable” keyboard.
Atari 800XL and ST here, but I respected the 64. I think to make it really cool, they need to have the DVD disguised in the chassis of the old Commodore disk drives ( Was it the1581? Something like that)
Ah, good times. TRS-80 here. I e-cycled it about 5 years ago. Y2K sounded the deathknell for its operating system, otherwise it could still run the programs it always ran. I still have my Lobo Max-80 in a box in the garage and don’t plan to part with it. Three of the original BASIC programs from circa 1980 are still working fine on my HP PC running Windows 7. With each new version of Windows I expected they might drop backward compatibility, but so far, so good.
My first computer was the slightly less boxy-looking C64C:
http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/C64C
I think I still have the keyboard, casette and 5 1/4 inch floppy drives, and an old dot-matrix printer stored somewhere in my parents’ garage …