The last post is the WINNER!

[sun rise]

This is still as true today as it was in 2011

My computer's in trouble.
My plans are in rubble.

Oh what a grey day.
My files went away.

My dastardly software vendor
has carried me to Mordor.

My lowlife hardware provider
trussed me up like a spider.

I pray the heavens to help
else all I can do is yelp.

 

[ChristineM]

This is still as true today as it was in 2011

My computer's in trouble.
My plans are in rubble.

Oh what a grey day.
My files went away.

My dastardly software vendor
has carried me to Mordor.

My lowlife hardware provider
trussed me up like a spider.

I pray the heavens to help
else all I can do is yelp.

My computer was playing the fool yesterday, two folders were empty that were supposed to contain all this year's photographs.

Very concerning

Luckily they were backed up so a winner.

 

[sun rise]

All you newcomers don't know that in 2015 in this very thread there was a very extended set of limericks. I saved for a reason I did not know at the time. But now I have a reason - inflicting this on you here and now:

This is an endless thread
inhabited by the undead.
Have some brains
rattle your chains.
And in endless circles tread.

I compose this small twiddle
while you play second fiddle
It's time to abide
in your losing tide.
So run off and quietly piddle.

Your retort missed the mark.
It contained little poetic spark.
Losers two
Feel blue
My win is utterly stark.

 

[Stevicus]

Pro soccer game suspended when fans rain fish cakes onto the field - UPI.com

A professional soccer game was suspended in Norway when fans threw fish cakes and other objects onto the field to protest the use of a Video Assistant Referee, or VAR.

www.upi.com

The protest surrounded the use of VAR, which fans and even several supporter unions complain leads to referees taking too much time to make decisions, bringing games to long halts in the meantime. The league adopted VAR in 2023.

Some fans at the game were seen holding a banner, which read: "We will never give up, VAR will go away."

Video assistant referee. I guess that's another name for instant replay.

There's also the "assistant video assistant referee." Then maybe even an "assistant to the assistant video assistant referee," just in case anyone needs assistance from the assistant to the assistant.

 

[ChristineM]

Unassisted win

 

[Kathryn]

Just winning.

 

[sun rise]

If you wake up in the morning looking like this, I'm not sure you can count it as a win

 

[Kathryn]

I really have no idea what I look like! Maybe I should invest in more mirrors.

 

[John53]

Good morning friends and @Stonetree

 

[ChristineM]

If you wake up in the morning looking like this, I'm not sure you can count it as a win

You wake up, that's always a win and far better than the alternative

 

[ChristineM]

I've been watching the Olympics opening ceremony, wow, what a winning spectacular. I have never seen anything like it before.

 

[Kathryn]

I wonder if it's still on.

 

[ChristineM]

I wonder if it's still on.

Yes

Catch it on YouTube

 

[Kathryn]

Yes

Catch it on YouTube

I'm watching it! Rain and all.

 

[ChristineM]

I'm watching it! Rain and all.

Looks like the spectacular is over, I don't know whether to stay up for the fireworks

 

[Kathryn]

Looks like the spectacular is over, I don't know whether to stay up for the fireworks

Well, it's early evening here so I think I will. I'll fill you in though.

 

[sun rise]

If you run out of things to watch:

Watch 100,000 Dominoes Topple to the Ground in a Dazzling Eight-Minute Display​

 

[Wu Wei]

This is still as true today as it was in 2011

My computer's in trouble.
My plans are in rubble.

Oh what a grey day.
My files went away.

My dastardly software vendor
has carried me to Mordor.

My lowlife hardware provider
trussed me up like a spider.

I pray the heavens to help
else all I can do is yelp.

Haikus that were on the wall in my cube in my previous office, I did not write them

A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

 

[Stevicus]

 

[ChristineM]

Goodnight