Subject: Fwd: Haikus for the 21st Century
> >In Japan, they've replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error >messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction >rules. Each poem has only 3 lines and a total of 17 syllables: five >syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third. Haikus >are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, >yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity-the essence of Zen. > > --------------------------------- > >Your file was big. >It might be very useful. >But now it is gone. > > ------------------------------- > >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 has 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. > > ----------------------------- > >First snow, then silence. >This thousand dollar screen dies >So beautifully > > ----------------------------- > >With searching comes loss >And the presence of absence: >"My Novel" not found. > > ----------------------------- > >The Tao that is seen >Is not the true Tao-until >You bring fresh toner. > > ----------------------------- > >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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
