The joke is on me.

A long time ago, back in my Performa 5200CD days, a friend and I used to send a lot of files back and forth. This was 1996 and neither of us had the internet or a CD burner — the net result was a constant trading of floppy disks.

Unfortunately, most of our files were a bit too big for the 1.4mb disk (hard to believe, I know), so we’d end up segmenting whatever it was over several disks. The other person would then have the fun job of inserting disk after disk after disk into the computer to recombobulate everything.

As a jest, I took a rather large mp3, about 16mb, ran it through the program, wrote it to 15 or so disks and handed it off with no clues other than stating it’s a surprise.

What was it? None other than the 17:05 rock epic In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

But I guess the joke is on me. He liked the song and I had to spend even more time segmenting it all to the 15 disks than he did to put it back together.