Year-Old Haiku

More cobwebby stuff from my inbox: two haiku that I scribbled in my boredom during a long, stupid day of systems testing. I basically had to process a transaction on my system, and then telnet in to a unix server and run cycles to validate whether the transactions had pulled data from the correct tables. Yuck.

These were probably influenced pretty heavily by The Tale of Genji, which I was re-reading at the time.


Date: 10/2/2007.

Autumn rain, cloaklike,
Free of prejudice and spite,
Shrouds all -- none escapes.

Bleak white digits dance
Bottom-to-top on black screen.
-System error- (Death)

Old Puns Never Die...

I am cleaning out my gmail box. Here is a punny IM monologue that I e-mailed myself from work on July 24, 2008, which makes it just about three months old today. Surprisingly, it does not seem to have improved with age. Happy Friday!

luaphacim [3:47 PM]:
hehe... so, you ever have one of those times when you are so punny that you just despise yourself?

luaphacim [3:47 PM]:
I had one of those times just now...

luaphacim [3:48 PM]:
the guy across from me was telling the girl who [phone] shadows him about a recent remodeling job his wife had done...

luaphacim [3:48 PM]:
she redid their kitchen...

luaphacim [3:48 PM]:
all new floors, cabinets, and countertops...

luaphacim [3:48 PM]:
he was under the impression that the countertops were genuine granite...

luaphacim [3:49 PM]:
they looked really nice, and he was pretty happy about it

luaphacim [3:49 PM]:
and then they were watching HGTV, and the lady on the show was talking about how they were using a budget composite rock for the countertops to kind of cut costs

luaphacim [3:49 PM]:
and my friend's wife remarked that they had done the same thing on their kitchen...

luaphacim [3:50 PM]:
he felt cheap and betrayed, because he had been under the impression that it was the genuine article

luaphacim [3:50 PM]:
at which point, I interjected, "Derek, it sounds like your problem was that you were taking it for granite."