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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
 
Extremely cool. Please forgive me if I don't take the time to concoct one or 2!


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