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What is Snow Crash?
When you jump into a pool that is full of gizz.
"We finished the night with a Snow Crash at the love farm."
Snow Crash - video
Snow Crash - what is it?
snow n.... 2.a. Anything resembling snow. b The white specs on a television screen resulting from weak reception.
crash v.... --intr....5. To fail suddenly, as a business or an economy.
--The American Heritage Dictionary
virus.... L. virus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odour or taste. 1. Venum, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal. 2. Path a. A morbid priciple or poisonous substance produced in the body as a result of some disease, esp. one capable of being introduced into other persons or animals by inoculations or otherwise and of developing the same disease in them....3.fig. A moral or intellectual poison, or poisonous influence.
--The Oxford English Dictionary
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Book by Neal Stephenson - My favorite techno-thriller.
also see 1984
When they get closer to the overpass, it becomes a lost cause trying to drive at all, the thrashers are so thick and numerous. It's like putting on crampons and trying to walk through a room full of puppies. They have to nose their way along, tapping the horn, flashing the lights.
-- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
What does "Snow Crash" mean?
1. When a computer crashes at such a fundamental level that it can no longer control the CRT in the monitor, thus the monitor displays a screen of static.
The application was written so poorly that half the time it made the computer snow crash.
Snow Crash - what does it mean?
A. An interpretation of sound, a pattern, image or code that you’re exposed to so frequently that on certain occasions you immediately see/hear the sound, pattern, image or code subconsciously when exposed to and continue to see or hear it whether it’s existent or nonexistent. Very similar to Pareidolia.
C. “Snow Crash” is a science-fiction/cyber punk novel by Neal Stephenson.
Example 1 -
Guy 1: “That cloud in the sky is shaped like a dog!”
Guy 2: “Dude, every day you’ve been watching too many dog videos....holy shit you’re right it is a dog! I think you just got snow crashed.”
Example 2 -
“The hacker has been exposed to programming so much that he immediately saw the system flaw when he glanced at the machine code.”