Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Data Loss Poetry; Jay-Sitting
In early 1998, Salon.com published the results of a haiku contest on the topic of computer error messages.
The winning verses (senryu to be precise) were:
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
— That one guy David Dixon
Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
— David Carlson
Surprise surprise...
I spotted singer/songwriter Jay Brannan Sunday morning sitting on the sidewalk outside my local Starbucks.
Tonight was his Highline Ballroom concert.
I talked to him a bit, but was too caffeine-deprived and/or starstruck to be coherent :-)
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