Palm Springs for Gay Men: Something We Just Found To Be Witty And Funny
This page has nothing to do with Palm Springs and it has nothing to do with gay men. In fact, it fills the same needs as those jokes we all get dumped on us in our e-mail. We can't stand those jokes, we never read them. How did we get hold of this "witty and funny" stuff? Why, through e-mail. Go figure.
In Japan, Computer Haiku has replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Poems using Haiku are governed by strict construction rules:
Poem has three lines.
First and third five syllables.
The second seven.
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Haiku are used to communicate timeless messages, often achieving a wistful, yearning, and powerful insight through extreme brevity.
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
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The website you seek
Can not be located, but
Countless more exist.
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Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
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Program aborting.
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
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Windows has crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No-one hears your screams.
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You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
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Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
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With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence.
"My Novel" not found.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen... Mind... Both are blank.
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