[svlug] Not Found Day

[Chris Miller]

Some of you may have read this, but while we're on the subject...

IMAGINE IF INSTEAD OF CRYPTIC TEXT STRINGS,
YOUR COMPUTER PRODUCED ERROR MESSAGES IN HAIKU...

 A file that big?
 It might be very useful.
 But now it is gone.
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 Yesterday it worked
 Today it is not working
 Windows is like that
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 Stay the patient course
 Of little worth is your ire
 The network is down
  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 Three things are certain:
 Death, taxes, and lost data.
 Guess which has occurred.
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 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.
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 Having been erased,
 The document you're seeking
 Must now be retyped.
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 Rather than a beep
 Or a rude error message,
 These words: "File not found."
  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 Serious error.
 All shortcuts have disappeared.
 Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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 The Web site you seek
 cannot be located but
 endless others exist
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 Chaos reigns within.
 Reflect, repent, and reboot.
 Order shall return.
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 ABORTED effort:
 Close all that you have.
 You ask way too much.
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 First snow, then silence.
 This thousand dollar screen dies
 so beautifully.
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 With searching comes loss
 and the presence of absence:
 "My Novel" not found.
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 The Tao that is seen
 Is not the true Tao, until
 You bring fresh toner.
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 Windows NT crashed.
 I am the Blue Screen of Death.
 No one hears your screams.
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 A crash reduces
 your expensive computer
 to a simple stone.
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 Error messages
 cannot completely convey.
 We now know shared loss.

CREDIT: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.html

On 4/4/07, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Thomas G. Digby (bubbles at well.com):
>
> > By the way, April 4 (4/04) is Not Found Day.
> >
> > A haiku in honor of the occasion:
> >
> >  Clock glows 4:04
> >  As I wake in the darkness
> >  Thinking "Dream Not Found"
>
> Senryu about
> Things not seen inspire me to
> This bad poetry.
>
> --
> Cheers,                        "Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse."
> Rick Moen                                                  -- D. Gale
> rick at linuxmafia.com
>
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