Mary
5-02-01, 01:37 PM
I PM'd this to Roemello yesterday, but I thought I'd share with the rest of the class http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//biggrin.gif
If you love these, you might also enjoy the more serious version at http://www.scifaiku.com/what/ .
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IMAGINE IF INSTEAD OF CRYPTIC, GEEKY TEXT STRINGS,
YOUR COMPUTER PRODUCED ERROR MESSAGES IN HAIKU...
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?
This site has been moved.
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
have to delete you.
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask far too much.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
I'm sorry, there's -- um --
insufficient -- what's-it-called?
The term eludes me ...
Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again
The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.
Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.
No keyboard present
Hit F1 to continue
Zen engineering?
wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy
Hal, open the file
Hal, open the damn file, Hal
open the, please Hal
The ten thousand things
How long do any persist?
Netscape, too, has gone.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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Collected from various sources--
this may have started it all!
http://www.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal3.html
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Mary C.
wildfirecartoon.tvheaven.com (http://wildfirecartoon.tvheaven.com)
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending" - The Muppet Movie
If you love these, you might also enjoy the more serious version at http://www.scifaiku.com/what/ .
---
IMAGINE IF INSTEAD OF CRYPTIC, GEEKY TEXT STRINGS,
YOUR COMPUTER PRODUCED ERROR MESSAGES IN HAIKU...
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?
This site has been moved.
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
have to delete you.
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask far too much.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
I'm sorry, there's -- um --
insufficient -- what's-it-called?
The term eludes me ...
Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again
The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.
Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.
No keyboard present
Hit F1 to continue
Zen engineering?
wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy
Hal, open the file
Hal, open the damn file, Hal
open the, please Hal
The ten thousand things
How long do any persist?
Netscape, too, has gone.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
---------------------------------------------------
Collected from various sources--
this may have started it all!
http://www.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal3.html
------------------
Mary C.
wildfirecartoon.tvheaven.com (http://wildfirecartoon.tvheaven.com)
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending" - The Muppet Movie