Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. —Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Solvitur ambulando It is solved by walking. -Latin proverb We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive at where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot |
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Computer Haikus No keyboard present Hit F1 to continue Zen engineering? The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao, until You bring fresh toner. Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Seeing my great fault Through darkening blue windows I begin again. The code was willing, It considered your request, But the chips were weak. Printer not ready. Could be a fatal error. Have a pen handy? A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. 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. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. Login incorrect. Only perfect spellers may enter this system. This site has been moved. We'd tell you where, but then we'd have to delete you. Wind catches lily scatt'ring petals to the wind: segmentation fault A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. |
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Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that. Stay the patient course Of little worth is your ire The network is down There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge To have no errors Would be life without meaning No struggle, no joy You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here. Hal, open the file Hal, open the damn file, Hal open the, please Hal Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will. Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. The ten thousand things How long do any persist? Netscape, too, has gone. Rather than a beep Or a rude error message, These words: "File not found." ABORTED effort: Close all that you have. You ask way 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 Web site you seek cannot be located but endless others exist Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared Screen. Mind. Both are blank. |
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