Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Why Computers Sometimes Crash

Does it count if I steal shamelessly from someone else? Oh, well, even if it doesn't, here goes anyway. Someone sent this to me and I had so much fun reading it out loud to myself that I just had to pass it on. But you have to promise to read it out loud. If you can't make that commitment, then STOP NOW and read no further:

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted at a very last resort,
And the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash.

If the lable on the cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel to another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall...

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well beboot and go out with a bang,
'Cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang.

When the copy on your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk,
And the macro code instruction is causing unnecessary risk,
Then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM,
And then quickly turn of the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!


Well..... That certainly clears it up for me. How about you?

5 Comments:

At 5:02 PM, Blogger Grammy said...

Deep in my heart of hearts, I knew the computer had it in for me. This just confirms it. (And it was fun to read out loud.)

 
At 9:23 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

mwahahah! I was true. I read out loud. Too fun!

 
At 9:59 PM, Blogger Kathryn Thompson said...

Tee Hee.

 
At 12:41 AM, Blogger Daring Young Dad said...

That is a fun poem.

I've also run into some "computer Haiku" that I really liked. The idea is to write error messages in the form of Haiku poetry. You can google for them, but here are some of my favorites:

"A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone."

"Windows NT crashed.
I am the blue screen of death.
No one hears your screams."

"Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred."

Hehehehe.

 
At 11:05 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love our family!!

 

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