Writing - 30 May 2003

30 May 2003

Heee! I read the funniest (and geekiest) computer poem today. Allow me to post it on my own website. Actually, don't allow me to do anything since this is my damn site and I don't need permission for anything. Arrgh! Power!!! I have it and you don't!

< > ! * ' ' #
^ @ ' $ $ -
! * ' $ _
% * < > # 4
& ) . . /
| { ~ ~ SYSTEM HALTED

Translation:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret at back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat tick dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka number four,
Ampersand right-paren dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket tilde tilde CRASH.

This is the ugly fact about writers . . . we're just people with no control over our daily lives, so we take it out on fictional people.

"You're a writer?!?!?" you ask incredulously. Sure, my sentences may seem sloppy and inarticulate, but the question you have to ask instead is, was I perhaps being intentionally and brilliantly ambiguous? The answer is no. Not only that, it's not being able to write that makes great writers, it's being able to re-write. And since I don't do re-writes on this wonderous site, what you see is what you get.

Damn it! Now I got the Beastie Boys song stuck in my head:
"What you see is what you get.
And you ain't see nothing yet."

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