Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Haiku - a digression

In thinking about good writing, I recalled the Blue Screen of Death haiku which were all over the Internets a few years ago. Ahhhh - good times. For those of you who don't know what these are, go here:
http://archive.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html

And some samples are shown below - sublime!

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
-- David Dixon
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Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
-- David Carlson

I'm sorry, there's -- um --
insufficient -- what's-it-called?
The term eludes me ...
-- Owen Mathews
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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
-- Peter Rothman
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Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again
-- Chris Walsh
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The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
-- Barry L. Brumitt
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Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?
-- Pat Davis
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A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
-- David J. Liszewski
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Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
-- Charlie Gibbs
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Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.
-- Rik Jespersen

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