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#87903
11/27/2002 5:17 AM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
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Zen and the art of computer maintenance:
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao until
You bring fresh toner.
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Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
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A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
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You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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#87904
11/27/2002 11:05 AM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 2,204
Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 2,204 |
I love these, AnnaS - I have a copy pinned to the partition next to my machine at work. Thanks for having the patience, which I didn't have, to type them in here. 
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#87905
11/27/2002 11:12 AM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
Ah, shucks, Rhuby. I just copied and pasted them in from an E-mail. So these have been around, eh?
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#87906
11/27/2002 11:16 AM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 2,204
Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 2,204 |
Hasn't everything, these days? [sigh ]
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#87907
11/28/2002 1:08 AM
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Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 872
old hand
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old hand
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 872 |
Hasn't everything, these days? [sigh ]Well here's one that's not old hat because I just made it up. I don't normally hate people that I've never met, but the Bill Gates butt-kissing, geek-thinking, computer nerd who wrote these arrogrant words and brings into my life so much grief, I wish him a slow burn in six thousand hells...make that nine thousand.
_________________________________________________ This poem has performed
Illegal operation
And will be shut down.[Note: The nature component of this haika is that the poem was to be about trees. And waterfalls. And endangered whales.] __________________________________________________ 
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