Subject: [LON-CAPA-dev] [Fwd: [CEP909_2002] [Fwd: Computer Haiku]]

From: Helen Keefe <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:55:52 -0500

Helen Keefe wrote:
> 
>
> >   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
> 17
> >   >syllables; 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 16 actual error messages from Japan. Aren't these better
> than
> >   >"Your computer has performed an illegal operation"?
> >   >
> >   >Below, the essence of Zen:
> >   >
> >   >Your file was so 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.
> >   >
> >   >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.
> >   >
> >
> >   >Windows 2000 crashed.
> >   >I am the Blue Screen of Death.
> >   >No one hears your screams.
> >   >
> >
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> 
> --
> Helen Keefe
> LON-CAPA/ ITR Project Manager
> Laboratory for Instructional Technology in Education
> 111 North Kedzie Labs
> East Lansing, MI 48824
> 
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Helen Keefe
LON-CAPA/ ITR Project Manager
Laboratory for Instructional Technology in Education
111 North Kedzie Labs
East Lansing, MI 48824

E-mail: [email-masked]
Web:   http://www.lite.msu.edu/
Phone: 517-432-9867
Fax:   517-432-5653