So many inner-voices show up to tackle the mundane and the life-changing; and they don’t always agree.
For those who remember computer blue screens and error messages that sent terror through your bones, here are some gentler error messages.
But they still deliver disaster.
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
Aborted effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
Computer haiku.
Distills angst of those moments.
Our author unknown.
Photo source: TheDigitalArtist on Pixabay
I was going through files from a decade ago and found a collection of haiku poems that took computer problems—something that seems like a modern, human/technological issue—and transformed them into poems about the human condition. Given how frequently computer tragedies happened, the haiku writer was prolific.
I’ve no idea who wrote these, but for anyone who ever experienced a computer crash or got an error message about a missing file, you’ll relate. I’ll serve up more later. Enjoy!
You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Photo source: Clker-Free-Vector-Images on Pixabay
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