[Sca-cooks] Haiku OT OP of Course

johnna holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Wed Sep 4 07:01:09 PDT 2002


Someone sent this to us and I thought you all
might enjoy them--  Since we all have our days
having problems with the various files and machines
that sit in front of us. They are supposed real to be
real error messages used in Japan, but who knows.

Johnnae  llyn Lewis   Johnna Holloway

The Web site you seek
Cannot be  located, but
>Countless more  exist.
>--------------------------------------------
>Chaos reigns  within.
>Reflect, repent, and reboot.
>Order shall  return.
>----------------------------------------------
>Program  aborting:
>Close all that you have worked on.
>You ask far too  much.
>------------------------------------------------
>Windows NT  crashed.
>I am the Blue Screen of Death.
>No one hears your  screams.
>---------------------------------------------------
>Your file was  so big.
>It might be very useful.
>But now it is  gone.
>-------------------------------------------
>Stay the patient  course.
>Of little worth is your ire.
>The network is  down.
>---------------------------------------------------
>A crash  reduces
>Your expensive computer
>To a simple  stone.
>--------------------------------------------------
>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.
>------------------------------------------------
>Having been  erased,
>The document you're seeking
>Must now be  retyped.
>--------------------------------------------------
>Serious  error.
>All shortcuts have disappeared.
>Screen. Mind. Both are  blank.
>--------------------------------------------------
>And the  favorite:
>
>Yesterday it worked.
>Today it  is not working.
>Windows is like  that.



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