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Zen Fun
Selection of a non-zennist
A contest to replace the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages led to the following beauties. (Some tiny editing done.)
(Formal Haiku poetry has strict construction rules: Each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second line, 5 in the third line. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.)
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
David J. Liszewski
Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
David Carlson
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Errors have occurred.
Look within for where and why.
Lazy programmers.
Charlie Gibbs
Serious
error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen, mind, both are blank....
Ian Hughes
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Chass Whittington
Program aborting:
Close all you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
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Windows
NT crashed.
Peter Rothman |
| With searching
comes loss And the presence of absence: "My Novel" not found. Howard Korder |
No keyboard present Hit F1 to continue Zen engineering? Jim Griffith |
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The Tao that is seen |
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working. Windows is like that. Margaret Segall |
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| Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. David Dixon |
Out
of memory. |
Having
been erased,
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A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
James Lopez
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
David Ansel
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(h@0$ reigns W ! T H ! N.
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First
snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
Simon Firth
Last updated: January 15, 2002