Write haiku, win home server
Intel and Microsoft want to give you a home server in exchange for 17 syllables of poetic artistry. Seeing as how, according to the companies' just-announced Home Server Haiku Challenge, a "home server is like having a samurai in a box," it's fitting that a haiku-writing contest would be just the culturally sensitive gimmick for …
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Samurai in a box?
I don't think I want one if the slightest error causes it to rip its insides apart so that it can't fail me again.
HELLO? MERKINS?
There ARE people other than Americans you know.
Or maybe you don't. >:-(
read ALL the fine print in the rules
"A random drawing selecting 100 of the total entries will be held on12/12/2009 by HB Design, an independent judging organization. Of the 100 entries selected, judges will select 23 of the best haikus."
So, if you win the random drawing lottery, then you've got roughly a 1 in 4 chance of winning something. Sounds like random chance counts for a lot more than poetic skill.
Clever Marketing
Capturing information
Cloaked as a contest.
#1
leaf on tree falling, browning and
falling.
Acountants use this PC
Tippex is on monitor?
Here's one...
Contest is open to legal residents of the United States,
twenty-one (21) years of age
or older as of entry date.
Haiku?
Kiss my ass M.S.
I will use Linux only
I don't need your sh*t
how do you count these syllables anyway?
crap is being streamed
twennty four hours a day
i have switched off
Here's one...
Wintel Home Server
Is a fitting replacement
For dead Time Capsule.
@ Reallydo Wannaknow
Very clever, well done.
Here's my attempt:
Asus and HP
reliable may be true
MS f*cks it up
Since I'm not a 'Merkin
obviously no solidarity amongst the colonies, so 'Merkins, feel free to abscond with this, however royalties are appropriate :P
a server at home
no one would really want it
who am i kidding?!
Here's One
"I start Windows now.
Updates arrive endlessly.
I switch to Linux."
OK, Microsoft. Where's my server?
Hmmm
Were I in the States
I could enter this compo
However, I'm not.
A UK version...
A server at home?
Message from the Home Office:
It's covered by IMP
Another rejection slip
Why would you use crap
like Microsoft Home Server?
Linux is better.
this work?
ubuntu rocks me
Microsoft wants a haiku
They can suck my dick
buh
For americans?
contest i say is weaksauce
no HP for me :(
My entry
Microsoft tries hard
to distribute their shite, but
must give it away.
Here's One
Home Server's used for
billionare-college-dropout's
crappy OS's
feeble (this and that)
I know which I'd choose:
A suffusion of yellow
Or blue screen of death
Always liked...
Three things are certain
Death, taxes, and lost data
Guess which just happened
But I'm ¼ 'Merkin!
Contest rules unfair
Someone call the Waaahmbulance!
Pram now dummyless
Bye bye data...
Windows Home Server
now why the fuck
would I want that?
The last line needs work...
I'd like a server
But I'm not American
Bollocks bollocks boll...
where's my 10ft pole?
no windows no intel
and to top it off
not an american
Staying true to haiku form?
True haiku form surely means using one of roughly 100 classic approved themes - and crush me below VAX 11/770 if there is anything about home servers. Or "samirais in the box" for that matter.
I read the rulebook
Yet the point eludes me still
Is foolish one me?
oh no
A wasted day of
a plethora of haikus
i hate microsoft
Right
Has anyone contacted noted haiku artiste and new President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy?
Ginger rage
Scamps get on yahoo
About Stu I need to talk
He's prammed it again.
@ JoeG & AC #1
Two extra line-breaks
Do not constitute haiku.
Count the syllables.
The good ship Microsoft
We love you Bill Gates.
It's a shame you left the helm
Ballmer is a c**t
Japanese art forms
Can be africted by this
Casual lacism
Oblig: oi scamps get on yahoo. I need to talk to you abou stu [-]
Haiku?
There's a rather sweet little desktop OS called "Haiku" inspired by BeOS. It's still gestating and rough round the ages, but it seems to hold promise as it doesn't suffer from all the bloat of Linux (let alone Windows), so might be good for older/lower spec units.
The comment from Dave Harris is very close (identical?) to one of Haiku's error messages.
You can find out about Haiku here: http://www.haiku-os.org/
And I strongly suggest you muck around with it under virtualisation repeating the haiku
"Haiku is not Linux,
And neither of them are Windows.
Oh thank god!"
How it will work out
enter a contest
write with no sincerity
sell prize on eBay
A lottery huh?
Words chosen with care
Blow away on winds of chance...
No server for you!
And this isn't going to make me sign up to Twitter either
_Samba / Competition_
Five, sev'n, five, three lines:
A simple standard to keep
But we rewrote the rules.
_Bushido_
Loyalty unto death:
Is Windows Home Server
like a samurai?
Re: @ JoeG & AC #1
David T is right.
If you don't understand it
You're an idiot.
Pah! BeOS error messages FTW!
Stealing ideas from
The BeOS will not win you
any friends here Bill
Some particularly relevant NetPositive error messages:
Won't you please observe
A brief moment of silence
For the dead server?
First snow, then silence.
This expensive server dies
So beautifully.
Ephemeral site.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.
Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The server is down
Error reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
My attempt
Samba is flaky
Home Server makes Jesus cry
I'm off to the pub
Hmm
I would rather buy
A cheap home enema kit
Than Microsoft crap
@Haiku fail
Comments by AC
Fails to even google it;
Always git season
40 comments
Forty comments now,
and no Hitler mention yet.
Godwin's law, still valid?
To title or not to title...
This shower of fine poetry has inspired me... so here is my try
Haikus galore
even without BofH this is
a happy Friday
...and one for the contest:
Windows Home Server
like a possum on the lines
it will burn and die
感謝祭
In late November,
no Twitter, no home server —
Thanksgiving observed.
Er, holiday season?
Holiday season?
Can't be; it's not Christmas yet.
That's in December.
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