Comments on: A Friday Poem

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:29:49 +0000

Ever typed

del *.for;

on a VMS machine by mistake???

Seems like alot of keys to type by mistake, I know, but it only takes one *wrong* key. Ah – the follies of my younger days….

By: Elliot

Elliot — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:17:39 +0000

into the aether
five hundred pages of work
screw you delete key

By: Peter Armitage

Peter Armitage — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:40:25 +0000

“In error, a key pressed
My life, for a whole week, gone
I start to type, again”

An interpretative haiku. Credit –> Me. It isn’t quite 5-7-5 format, but isn’t that why we have poetic license?

By: PhilipJ

PhilipJ — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:39:53 +0000

While it certainly doesn’t save me from a hard drive crash (for that I back up regularly to my iPod), I happily got rid of Office for good back in the second year of my undergrad degree. Plain text editors like VIM are hard to crash, and LaTeX’s output looks better than Office’s any day!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:11:22 +0000

I lost a bunch of my thesis and everything else on the hard drive. Fortunately I’d printed it out (it was just shy of the next backup) and I could retype it, and the rest was backed up. The only other thing I’ve ever lost permanently was some MATLAB code, that I hadn’t backed up because I only had MATLAB on that one machine anyhow. I that case I had the printed output, which was the important thing.

There’s never a good time for the HDD to die.

By: Belizean

Belizean — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:55:21 +0000

Clifford,

What a brilliant gem! While it perfectly captures the sense of loss and regret one feels after a crash, it doesn’t quite convey the concomitant rage toward the Evil Empire.