MedPretzel
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Hello,
Since I often get off topic (I'm so sorry, but I'm like that in real life too), I thought I'd give you computer-users something to (hopefully) smile about.
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules - each poem has only 3 lines; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are some actual error messages from Japan. 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.
> --------------------------------------------
I ate your Web page.
Forgive me; it was tasty
And tart on my tongue
Since I often get off topic (I'm so sorry, but I'm like that in real life too), I thought I'd give you computer-users something to (hopefully) smile about.
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules - each poem has only 3 lines; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are some actual error messages from Japan. 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.
> --------------------------------------------
I ate your Web page.
Forgive me; it was tasty
And tart on my tongue
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