Caltizzle is dead!

Long live caltizzle!

Caltizzle was a sort of combination message board/blog/long philosophical rant/flame war about religion/toaster sort of thingy. Yes, the sort of thing everybody needs to have. It no longer exists except as a MySQL dump on my personal hard drive. Maybe someday I'll make this available in some sort of read-only sort of way, but don't count on it.

In its glory days, Caltizzle was read by thousands of people every day. Most of these people were spammers, and the rest were probably Randall or myself.

At some point we posted the solution to a silly flash game that I dare not mention by name here. This generated a lot of traffic, mostly people saying some variation on "What is the code for today?" or "WHAT IS THE CODE" or "WHAT IS THE CODE DIE YOU STUPID FUCKERS DIE THIS SITE SUCKS TOAD SPLEEN." We did get mentioned in a random obscure Brazilian newspaper, which apparently counts as our major accomplishment.

At least some of the May 17, 2004 version of caltizzle is in the Wayback Machine, a project whose goal is to archive the entire Web. Some other versions might be there too. And Google might still have bits of it cached.

Finally, John Sadowski has all the funny quotes, as of 10 November 2758 AUC, which I believe is 10 November 2005, although he might have been using the Julian calendar, I suppose. I once had a three- or four-line regular expression which extracted quotes from the database, but I lost it. (All of John's quotes were compiled by hand.) The Axel Scherer ones are actually kind of funny, as is Axel Scherer. Most of the others were apparently funny at the time. Some are just puzzling, like the one about mylar:

Randall: "Mylar. Lots of mylar."

Mylar, by the way, is just polyester film. Wikipedia claims that "Mylar" balloons are actually made out of metallized Nylon. None of this is funny, however.

I have an updated version that includes ALL of the quotes on Caltizzle, assuming that John got all of the ones before 5 April 2005.