Jan 27 2009
Haiku!
I promised Haikus, so here they are! Enjoy!
There are from Technoped, and are specifically computer related!
Error so complex,
Far beyond your conscious mind.
Send to Microsoft?
Behold the fear, rage
of a URL mistyped.
Pop-ups engulf me.
Behold the fear, rage
of a URL mistyped.
Pop-ups engulf me.
How about these from Tomifobia?
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
And the best source for geeky haikus, ThinkGeek!, not to mention their sweet contest!
WITH ALL CAPS I TYPE
LOUDLY I YELL EVERYTHING
I FEEL IMPORTANT!
jIba’ Quo’nos-daq
qeqtaHvIS tIQqu’ lurDech:
tlhIngan Haiku!
Translation:
I sit here on Quo’nos
Practicing the ancient tradition:
Klingon Haiku.
I hate dungeons, but
I guess beauty’s in the eye
of The Beholder.
I look through this post
And see the five-seven-five.
This blogger approves.
And yet one wonders
In first two groups: an error?
Two haiku repeat.
I’ve read many of these sorts of things before.
My favorite (which I don’t remember well enough to put here) introduced me to a term I know well: the blue screen of death.
I love these. This page has a bunch more–I think this one’s my favorite, in part for (nerd alert!) its allusion to William Carlos Williams’ “This Is Just To Say”:
I ate your Web page.
Forgive me. It was juicy
And tart on my tongue.
But these ones are pretty awesome too:
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen
dies so beautifully.
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.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working
Windows is like that.
A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Your work has vanished.
Please Abort, Retry, Ignore.
Weep not bitter tears.