[MACEP] A computer/humor break (from AP, etc., etc., etc. ...) (fwd)

[Rosa Hemphill]

I just received this bit of humor from one of my chem lists. Thought 
MACEPers would enjoy the computer messages, too.
Rosa

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 21:55:05 EDT
From: Roger Postley <RPostley at AOL.COM>
Reply-To: Chemistry Education Discussion List <CHEMED-L at MAILER.UWF.EDU>
To: CHEMED-L at MAILER.UWF.EDU
Subject: A computer/humor break (from AP, etc., etc., etc. ...)


  JAPANESE COMPUTER MESSAGES
   
Here are 14 actual error messages seen on the computer screens in Japan, some
are written in Haiku. Aren't these better than "your computer has performed
an illegal operation"?
   
  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.
   
  Yesterday it worked.
  Today it is not working.
  Windows is like that.
   
  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.

However, the above computer comments omit my favorite: "Cuss loudly and swing
a large sledge..."   (Either the heat or the AP commentary overload are
getting to me, plus public school starts back up, next week...)

-Roger
  HS Chemistry (ret.) and now back to being a substitute teacher...
"I never met a tomato I didn't like -- then I went to a grocery!"