Personal Tech Peeves
There are a lot of things that piss me off. Sort of comes with the territory. as you get older you become more of a curmudgeon than when you wore a younger man’s clothes. These are some of my pet peeves about the tech industry.
I will send them my thoughts, but would be shocked if anyone bothers to respond. Their pattern is usually to go into a non-response mode just like my Microsoft word documents do periodically for no particular reason other than to screw with my head.
Defaulting to Foreign Languages
Defaulting to foreign languages when logging in from overseas with no ability to change it to the language of your choice or the instructions are in the foreign language you cannot read.
Being overseas this a big one. Microsoft Edge defaults to Korean and no matter how much I try to change it either to the U.S site or to change the default language options per their instructions, it just keeps defaulting to Korean, It is as if no one at Microsoft is aware that there are millions of people traveling everywhere, and just because you log in from Korea does not make you a Korean. Probably just an automatic thing but you would think they could offer a personalized language option?
Google for the most part lets me surf in the language I chose and only occasionally do I encounter only Korean language material, and they offer to translate it using English words. Microsoft would provide an offer to translate it but only in the local language.
I wish that they could simply come up with a simple standard protocol. When someone logs in from a non-English speaking zone the first time, the computer will sense that and give you an option to proceed in whichever language you want and then remember that so the next time you can interact in the language of your choice. And the language button will be labeled in English and the same spot every time.
Could not be too difficult a task to accomplish. If Google does it then the other tech giants will follow suit.
It is time that they realize in a global world not everyone uses the language of that particular country and defaulting to a foreign language is incredibly annoying.
A related issue is that so many Korean-based programs do not interact with non-Korean-based programs. We finally had to set up an old computer and load it with Korean software so we can get things done. Otherwise, forget it.
Travel to Mexico & all my web pages come up in Spanish
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Norton Blues
Norton is particularly bad at this. It seems that it treats all non-English programs as malware and prevents you from running the program. That is why we had to set up a Norton-free computer to do our day-to-day activities in Korea. Thanks, Norton!
Norton also has an annoying feature of occasionally for no reason flagging sites as suspicious making you go to all sorts of hoops to prove that the program is legit! I had an issue with my web page= Norton flagged it as dangerous. I check with Word press whose attitude was well that was just Norton’s problem and everything is fine on their end. I complained to Norton and am waiting for a response, well the problem seems to have resolved itself.
Buggy software

A related issue is that Microsoft products are still bug-ridden after decades of use you would think they would have worked out the bugs.
Constant crashing
Microsoft constantly crashes for no particular reason. Just freezes up and crashes losing whatever you did not save.
Once I did a thought exercise. I noted how often I ran into problems and found out that 60% of the time I encountered a problem, usually the typical freeze, and goes into a nonresponse mode that can last from ten seconds to five minutes. I sent my findings to Microsoft and of course, no one ever followed up.
No response blues
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Excel Errors Drove me Mad
As mentioned this is the most common problem but there are many others. I had to shift from Excell to Google documents because Excell would freak out if you tried to copy a non-excel item giving you a typical nonessential error message
Can’t load more fonts”
Then it give you an option yes/no then it would repeat the message. Once I clicked 250 times before it finally crashed my computer. I went online for help and of course, there was nothing and no one cared. I sent them a Good by Excel email and no one followed up.
I have not had any problems with google documents.
Copy and paste defaults to the last copied item
One of my pet peeves is the copy and paste defaults to the last copied item. Sometimes you have to repeat the operation several times before it goes through.
Internal search engine sucks
Microsoft’s internal document search engine is a joke. 90 percent of the time it presents garbage search results. One Drive is a bit better but that is not saying much.
While searching for a document one often encounters a reference to an open dialogue box that you have to close the only problem is that the open dialogue box is hidden!
Usually, if you keep clicking it eventually relents and presents you with false positives.
This is just so annoying a feature.
Can’t Open Documents
Sometimes for reasons only a computer understands, my taskbar where I am supposed to be able to easily open documents just quits working. It often will half-open a document then crash and kick me out. Usually takes a few tries, once it took over 50 tries before it finally started working.
Sometimes though it randomly opens a wrong document or it opens the document and then does the non-response dance. and then you need to reboot in hopes of getting a stable connection.
Other times I can only open a copy of the document and then re-save it under a new name.
At times when that happens sometimes, you can save the document as is, other times it says you can’t save an open document.
There is one annoying thing that Microsoft used to do all the time but quit doing for some reason. It used to be that when you logged in other than your usual location or did not have the internet turned on for some reason, Microsoft would send you a message saying that they could not verify that you are using a legitimate copy of Microsoft and you would have to log in to continue working.
Number lock Locks Up at Random moments
Sometimes the number lock goes on without warning and you think you typing, for example, to the end and you end up typing numbers like 66666666666. Or you try typing and you get numbers instead. Then you have to hit Num locks to unlock it. Appears to just happen on a random basis.
Dictation Program much Improved but still clunky
The dictation program is now about 90 percent accurate up from 10 percent when they first rolled it out
Used to provide a lot of fodder for found poems. Now not so much. See some of my dictation trial poems below. I once tried to dictate a list of music I had gotten out of the library, I found there was a 95% error rate. I shared my findings with Microsoft but they never responded to my snarky message congratulating them on their 95% error rate..
Editor Much Improved
The editor is much improved, and read out loud fuction is much better but still needs improvements
One thing they could do is to tweak the repeated word error, so you can simply turn off that feature if you wish.
Customer Service is a Joke
In my experience, Word Press, and duotrope is the best at customer service. Norton so so, Microsoft and Apple are pretty bad too.
They all play the same blame game. It is not our problem contact the other company which turns around and says it is not our problem.
You have to wait for a long time to get a customer service rep either on the phone or via chat line. I found the chat line feature tends to work better. Not to mention you get a record for future encounters.
If I am calling a US-based number I have to time it for the middle of the night my time if I wish to reach a human being.
Microsoft has a feature where you can send a frown or a smile and although they offer to follow up, they never do. Once I tried to look at their forum of issues submitted but the site did not work so I gave up. I wonder if anyone reads any of these complaints?
Haiku-like error messages
The error messages we receive are often written in a strange haiku-like code that does not make sense. For example, WTF is a fatal disk error?
So many of the error messages are written for computer geeks and make no sense to nongeeks. My favorite has always been
General failure reading disk drive
Which flashes a moment, before shutting down the computer.
And the rest of equally mysterious. Sometimes referring to a computer error code and sometimes just gibberish.
And occasionally I get the blue screen of death followed by an ominous warning that I have no boot disk. Providing a number to call for help. But every time that happens, I reboot and things are fine until the next blue screen of death incident.
Sometimes, it flashes when opening
“can’t read reference memory”
then crashes.
Rebooting the computer solves 95% of all computer problems according to a tech guy I knew years ago who confessed that no one understands why things don’t work. He said that there are millions of lines of code and once in a while something gets corrupted. Rebooting typically solves the problem.
Netflix needs to always include subtitles
Netflix at least in Korea has an impressive line of K Drama. Many of them have a preview with subtitles but when you go to the dram you find it is only in Korea. At the very least they are guilty of bait and switch tactics.
It seems to me that they should as a matter of course require all their programming to have English language subtitles. And Korean producers should see that this is a great opportunity to grow a global audience for K drama and is a small cost to pay. I am writing to Netflix on this issue separately.
Grammarly program randomly fixates on a word and you can’t fix it or change it
Grammarly sometimes gets fixated on a word. You can’t get to it to change it as it just kicks you back out. Very frustrating when it happens and it seems to just happen on a random basis.
Tracking everything we do
Enough said on this one.
Finally, if anyone wants to chime in with their pet peeves please do so and I will incorporate them in a future posting.
Note to Microsoft one year ago
Tried to get the new dictation program to work and gave up, scheduled a service call Sunday with detailed feedback. Also, send Microsoft my Microsoft sucks document.
Felt good to get it off my chest. The problem with Microsoft is the same problem most big companies have, they have lousy customer service and they put out shoddy products and don’t worry about the competition until they get their asses whopped by someone who pays attention to the customers and put out a superior product at a better price and cares that their products work as advertised every single time. Microsoft, they are so focused on the latest thing they don’t go back and fix the bugs in their everyday products. And they ignore customer complaints.
What a contrast with word press and with doutrope. Both have superior customer service and I love the products because they fix my issue quickly, professionally, and with kindness.
The one-time Microsoft commented it was a snarky dude focusing on one problem at a time and we don’t have time to dig into your complaints.
Microsoft Why I left You
I am writing to let you know why after years of putting up with shoddy software that does not work I finally have pretty much given up expecting Microsoft to work, and have given up on Microsoft for good. I have been using Microsoft word daily since about 1990 or so. I retired in 2016 from the Department of State as a foreign service officer. Since retirement, I have been blogging and writing poetry and fiction. Up until six months ago I was writing my work using Microsoft word and keeping track of my submissions in Excel. I finally gave up on both products after years of frustration. I will keep my subscription for now because I do need to have access to my documents and I do need to be able to submit the documents for publication in Microsoft Word format. I have sent many of my observations and complaints to Microsoft over the years but no one has ever bothered to follow up and your customer service is a nightmare. Every time I call them they have not been able to answer my problems and generally make things worse. The basic problem is that your software has too many bugs and doesn’t work I’ll just give you a specific example or two. 50% error rate Un-acceptableOne week about a year ago after being frustrated that Microsoft word would frequently crash causing me to lose my work, I kept track of all errors for one week and concluded that about 50% of the time when I was using Microsoft Word or Excel I encountered some kind of error usually just a temporarily “not responding” error that cleared up in a few seconds, but often the software would crash requiring me to either reload it or sometimes reboot my computer. Opening Microsoft in the morning if I had to reboot my computer would sometimes require me to wait 30 minutes before I could open Microsoft and often I would have 20 or 30 different versions of Microsoft opened accidentally while I was trying to open it. Then I would have to manually close every single document and each time I did that I would get a temporary response error so many days it would take 30 minutes or so before I could get into my documents and get to work. This is unacceptable. Apple, Google Docs Always WorkContrast this with “Apple pages” which I’ve started using for about six months. It opens every single time and I have yet to have a non-responsive error and never had any problems with it. It does what it is supposed to do and does it perfectly. It allows me to save documents to word and it opens word documents. Microsoft word of course does not allow me to open a document created in Pages. It does allow me to open a document created in Google docs though.
Excel Destroyed my Documents – For No Reason, I Can understandI had to give up on Excel as well. About six months ago for some reason that I’ve never been able to figure out, Excel started to give me an error message every single time I tried to copy data into it from another program When I did that I got an error message saying that there were “too many fonts” being used and then I had the option of clicking OK and hoping that that would stop the error message. usually, I had to click Okay many times before it cleared up. One time I had to click the okay message four hundred times before it would clear and let me get back to my work. Excel would often just refuse to save any documents whatsoever and then I would have to reboot my computer and lose my data. Tech Support Was Not HelpfulI contacted Microsoft repeatedly and nobody ever bothered to return a message your online help function was useless and your automated chatbot never was able to figure out what I was talking about. I did not call customer support because I figure it would have been a useless waste of time. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the software and the error message continued. I shifted to Google Docs and it is working wonderfully. Rarely have a problem. and the font issue was never an issue. Dictation Program Produces Great Found Poetry
Finally, your dictation program has never worked. I am using the Apple dictation program to write this letter it has a 95% success rate Microsoft dictation had a 25% success rate most of the time they produce gibberish. I did use that to create several found poems which I called Microsoft dictation poems. I sent poems to Microsoft but again nobody has ever responded. I did call when I first installed the dictation program. Nothing worked. Microsoft tech support could not figure out that the problem was that the dictation program did not work with the internal speaker of a laptop. They told me to reformat my hard drive. I went to Best Buy and they told me that it does not work with a laptop and sold me an external microphone. I bought an external speaker and then it worked but only 25% of the time did I get a clean copy, 75% of the time it produced gibberish. To end on a positive note, your speech-to-text function did not work for a long time then one day it started working, and once it started working, there was a 90% success rate. This gives me hope that one day you will get the dictation program to work. My plea to you sir is to get your software to work 95% of the time every single time I know that this may not be glamorous and I know this may not be seen as the direction of the company but I know that my experience is not unique and that most of your customers are very frustrated with your products and that is why more and more people are using products as such as Google Docs or Apple products because Microsoft word and excel just don’t work. Please fix your Microsoft office suite products - a 50% error rate it’s just not acceptable. I would be happy to follow up with anyone from Microsoft if they wish to talk to me about this but I do not think anybody will bother to respond I will post this on my blog, https://the world accordingtoCosmos.com I hope that you will take this constructive criticism into account and fix Microsoft office once and for all thank you Jake Cosmos Aller Ex-Microsoft customer Computer Blues (revised)Sometimes I think My computer knows Refuses to boot up, and crashes constantly. Just fucks with me Cursing up a blue stream of blue curses Smiling at me Just once I beg it Open the document once In endless loops of opening Please Mr. Computer Don’t take a half-hour to load Microsoft products Such as general error reading files Or can’t save the file And in Microsoft excel Excell had a problem About not being able to load fonts Then kicking you out And all the other gobbledygook messages Flashing the final insult Note: Microsoft dictation program does not work as advertised. Not a surprise. After six months of daily trials, it still spews forth mostly gibberish which I have turned into “found poems” with minimal editing, just breaking it into stanzas. This is the latest one, I have lots more, and can send them to you if you are interested. I included the clear text and the found text after the poem. EndNote Microsoft Dictation trials Found Poem Three Inspection ReportInspection report met with him G P silver in the damage the news from the rear for the termite damage. In the termite the basic questions of morality denying them the answer most questions afterward although the front porch there was something at the front porch the pedestal on the front porch so he headed from facing the street and in from the street the fed is still on to the eye to the left we noticed there were cracks long the foliage including the crack we also know are at opening in the awkward men we also noticed on the right side of the house we took a look left as to his meeting in the right one we suspect that using serious settlement issue on the house is trying to balance
what left we are sending information asked his advice before we can’t turn our Rescinded the new we will go to the court for the deal against the key man I hope to do some writing Poem Four Green Tree DeathGreen tree is in the Kingstown Property with her mother my mother on the wall to handle and tell my mother to calm down as Jeff has a temper problem job is getting very angry Juppe pulls out a gun and serves the shooting of my mother the mall and should serve five or six times my wife forays into a closet will not find her and she wonders what would happen know in all my mother’s death what will happen because im not there and she fears Jeff and that is the end Poem Five Telco OneTelco one lack of will will fix the car tomorrow and work on my appeal light work to get on the other headphones on Thursday will build and Costco tomorrow
but still funky watch and at the showboat Mr. Sunshine before taking all along back to two long flight Poem Six Late for FateHad a busy productive day and Left late Almost an hour late Left it there and went and got my dentures Had lunch
Usual Tom chat Tom Not bad And then went to him once took a nap Kim and moon went to Beckton’s son That was very interesting to see Kim and the moon Where a lot of my eyes book Got some new novels out To Stephen King’s short stories Credimi and rim dot Florida novel those we nice and Thomas doing Poem Seven Barriers Between Worlds Fall ApartOne night Anne People Find themselves wandering the streets People on the earth All the animals And they have a lot to say 24 hours of total madness between the various dimensions
And then the wormhole disappears I put back to get I am With the Wizard of Oz of The dimensional barrier of time and space Afterward, I work with Glenda To try to put A permanent Magical barrier That would block the land of oz But I’m afraid That the knowledge of the house has gotten out the impact of damn Packers Continued to prepare for 8 Poem Eight Lost in OzI am a friend of the shaggy man following his secret directions and meet up with Ausma Dorothy and the remaining parts of her party We March back to the Emerald city Poem 10 On the MoveOn the move owns polling is seeking corrections and I’m drawing with a home run and working and the crow their fight to save one small one Poem 11 Ancient RomeAnd find me in ancient Rome And I’m being driven to the streets
I enjoyed my Lemper Poem 12 TransformationsI am asleep Last Ash change rooms and found and I had been transformed Into a red Paul I wondered Should I tell Anne Eventually, I met Glenda Where is he I am in a coma Make me go to munch on Poem 13 Visions of New SeoulI am dreaming of a unified Korea Hey, would me Csullo Anne Canyon
So subway will be expanded
No new Capitol
John Patrick hey, a central business district
And a diplomatic quarter which will be This side of the new blue house as well as the new Capitol
Poem 14 Love at First SightThe phenomenon of eight (hate) at first sight because in the prior life one had human issues with those persons and still, need to be resolved to meet them again and again and again I only had paid for the site (hate at first sight) when I met on balls Dr. Baden We ran into each other and first moment he once tried to kick me out of that foreign service one evil despicable evening Poem 16 alien invasionThe first encounter was when the earth was invaded they landed and attacked everywhere and eventually, come they turn over most of the earth and the aliens for an us for human people cannot like they’re and I capture an evening in the alien for interdiction (integration) the alien refuses to cooperate Poem 17 Ozma’s Magic Book Reveals All
All (Osma) calls are looking it is a global the distance and each is something that they can have one meal and they can look at the land of ours and the images they can pull out individual are with us when uses it as one of her many out what’s happening
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Microsoft Found Poem General Zod Conquers the World
All night I felt
that last Internet space
I’m wondering About Future
and about me
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Helping the best
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I’m not Worry too much
About things, I can’t control
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to do
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I sound fun too
Another Found Poem
I wake up fully functional
Thinking out
My life so far
and how it is coming down
I have to rent
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which I have not done
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That made all the difference
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Dictation Text General Zod Conquers the World
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Cleaned up text SETI and the search for extraterrestrial life goes on overdrive when scientists report what appears to be radio and television broadcasts from a planet eight light years from earth, the same planet as the Vulcans came from in the Star Trek universe. The programs show a world where dinosaur-like creatures are running the world and there appears to be a civil war. Over the next six months, the world is transfixed by watching the alien broadcasts which are translated into English via a supercomputer program. In the broadcast, a nuclear war occurred. The surviving party regains absolute control and announces the formation of the Galactic Empire. General Zod is the First Emperor. They have discovered Earth as well. The aliens launch a crash project To develop interstellar Travel so they can come to earth and conquer the earth.
The revelations that there is an external threat to the planet caused the United Nations to get together with the help of the United States and Russia other space powers, they put together a Space defense International organization And also invigorates efforts to make the UN a real Planetary government including finally conquering climate change.
But it was too late. General Zod’s son arrives to take over the earth. He makes a broadcast saying that they were liberating Earth in the name of the Galactic Empire and that resistance would be futile.
They land at the White House and when President Trump comes out to greet them,
General Zod cuts off his head, and then cuts off the heads of all the staffers as they come out White House. After an hour of unimaginable horrors, including mass rapes, blowing up the Pentagon and the CIA, General Zod announces that he had taken over the world.
Life will continue as before as long as people behave and follow the rules they would be fine Resistance to the new empire will be met with instant death. Life in the Empire is not a democracy. They would not tolerate Freedom of speech, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Assembly, And the freedom to oppose the State. The state is everything. As long as humans remember that they would be just fine. They took over the United States because it was the biggest country in the world. And that his forces will take over the rest of the world in the next couple of weeks. If people on earth accept the new order, their safety would be guaranteed. Companies would be taken over by Galactic Empire companies And everybody would have to learn Galactic standards. Within one year older languages will be banned.
Cosmic Do-Over Found Poem
I am Standings With State (Satan)
On the edge
Up the pits of hell
State (Satan) and Is this pointing to me
All the variables are exquisite torture
that I was about to Enjoy
in his Words
For my slim
Add additions
Thanks, I’m down
And things I have not done
But he said
There was one Exception
to the rule
And he was obligated by law
Even Satan has to follow the law
To explain it to me
Hey Stephen
That When A couple
Is a soul mate
which is very rare
Satan has to offer
The couple Ecosmith do-over
In this case
I would qualify
I would be set back
to the day I met my wife
And have all the knowledge
Of my life in the town
So that I will know
what I did
when I did not do
And I would be able
to make d
I’m going to heaven
I can be admitted
to have instead of a house
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That many people
Most people Fail
In their second Charge
in the concert do-over
different choices
If in the end
When I come back
And God this time
Janet
That I am worth E
Cosmic Do Over clean up version
I am standings with Satan
On the edge
of the fiery pits of hell
watching the tortured souls
burning in the flames
screaming out in pain
Satan is pointing out to me
All the various exquisite torture
that I was about to enjoy for eternity
in his corrupt, polluted, hellish words
as a reward for my sins, and crimes
things I did commissions and
And things I have not done omissions
Malfeasance and misfeasance are legal
About it he said
But he said
There was one cosmic exception
to the rule
And he was obligated by law
Even Satan has to follow the law
To explain it to me
That when a couple
Is a soul mate couple
which is very rare
one of the rarest
most beautiful things
in the whole universe
something that even Satan admires
Satan has to offer
The couple a cosmic do-over
And in this case
I would qualify
I would be sent back
to the day I met my wife
And have all the knowledge
Of my life intact
So that I will know
what I did
when I did not do
And I would be able
to make different choices
If in the end
When I come back
For the judgment day
If I did make different choices
And do the right thing this time around
I can be admitted
To heaven instead
of joining him in Hell
But Satan warned me
That many people
Most people fail
In their second
chance at life
It is not easy
to change one’s fate
Fate has a way
of catching up to you
He salutes me
And says see you in hell
in 50 years
My friend
Fake language – Konglish Linguistic Delights Found Poem
One of the joys
Publicizing Opens
Is Caring The variation
of English around the world
Every country Has come up
with our variation
And here in Korea
They have successfully mingled thing
which language
Can wait for 10
and very funny
A few examples
Going on my pics
In the back of every taxi
was paying
Take me a Weather phone number
it was supposed to be Traffic Hotline
So you can call To complain
About that action
your bumper traffic
But The way they described
it was an Intercourse
discomfort report form
when I told the taxi driver
What that meant
Hill He almost had an accident
he laughed so hard
Another example
About the same time
in the restaurant at chempedak
employee airport
They had on the menu
something Baked Rick
I always wonder who was Rick
who is this Rick
who is this Rick
And then people know
Did you eat
Thank you
What time
do I say about this time
there was any bar
with a sign on the door
Coffee and tail
I wonder if that became a gay bar.
Again absurd are Both I
Fake language – Konglish Linguistic Delights clean up version
One of the joys
Of living overseas
Is encountering the variations
of English around the world
Every country has come up
with their variation
And here in Korea
They have successfully mangled English
In ways, no one could have foreseen
Giving way to something called Konglish
Korean English
The words sound like English words
Sort of but oftentimes
With an absurd twist to it
And it is very funny to read or hear
A few examples
Going back to the 1988 Olympics
In the back of every taxi
Was a small placard in English and Korean
it was supposed to be Traffic Hotline
So, you can call
To complain about the taxi
Or traffic or things in general
But the way they described
the form in English
was “intercourse discomfort
report form “
when I told the taxi driver
What that meant
He almost had an accident
he laughed so hard
Another example
About the same time
in the restaurant at Kimpo airport
They had on the menu something Baked Rick
I always wondered who was this Rick
And did people know
They were eating him.
At about the same time
there was any bar
with a sign on the door
Coffee and tail
I wonder if that
became a gay bar.
Starting Over Found Poem
Heidi sorry
I decide to Please Least an appointment
Tornier can one of the new buildings
going up in downtown Berkeley
Getting this
I’m within walking distance of restaurants
to movies at The University
Can I get a 3 bedroom apartment
Jo Ann Simmons Hello
wait for my stuff to come
from Korea
there enjoying my stuff coming
I spent a few weeks
Organizing and I haven’t
Estate sale
I get rid of my mother’s stuff
and downsizing quite a bit
I certainly am
I settle in
and come up with
Hey cortina
I applied for
Damn every day
in creative writing
in September system state
and I get in
I’m making plans to attend
When My life changers
As I need someone
Christmas Microsoft Found Poem
Hello.
Number 10 answers
funny thing is
Christ was not born on Christmas Day
And anyone who knows anything
about the history of religion knows
Christ is now
that’s the reason for the season
In his own and other words
Thanks
I love warm toast
on Christmas
in the morning
Christian
and In the United States
his face
just another example
of the fake outrage
Understand for others
to not celebrate it
And there are so many Pagan rituals
Associated with Christmas
Christmas Tree
Santa Claus
Giving presents
Judging naughty
And nice
Having a big space
None of that has anything
to do with the birth of Jesus Christ
The only Christian thing
about Christmas
is that some Christians
Go to mass
Richard services
The night before
in the morning house
Anthony
Of course
it’s half price
Funny thing is
Thanks
For the Fake War
on Christians
Computer Blues
Non-Response Blues
Every morning
I wake up
And fight with my computer
Endless rounds of non-response
Nothing but error and error
Blue spinning balls
Nothing happens
But raising frustration
I have the Microsoft
Non-response blues
And it is driving me mad
With frustration and anger
Oh computer Gods above
And computer demons below
Just once
Please just once
Open the damn document
And let me do what I want to do
And end this non-response nonsense
In short, do what the fuck
you are supposed to do
and leave me in peace
to do what I need to do
Plead to the Computer Gods
Today I woke up
As I usually do
To yet another mystifying morning
Of unspecified computer errors
Could not get the computer to work
Then when I finally got it to work
After half an hour
Microsoft word did not load
And when it did
I finally located my work
From yesterday
I had to find it in the roaming file
Why?
Who knows?
Only to find
Most of what I wrote
Had vanished into the ether
No explanation no warning
It was there saved yesterday
And now gone forever
Once I did an experiment
Tracking computer errors for a week
75% of the time I encountered errors
Most of the time simple
Screen freezes no response message
Then when I recovered the program
The data was gone
Microsoft has yet to respond
to my e-mail
I suppose I need to do it again
But today I will close with a prayer
To the Computer Gods
Just once I would like
You to do what
you are supposed to do
Open my documents
Save my work
And not give me any errors
Crashes or other unspecified problems
Is that too much to ask
Oh, Computer Gods
Just once
Do what you are supposed to do
That is all I ask of you
More Computer Blues
Sometimes I think
My computer is plotting against me
Trying deliberately to drive me mad
My computer knows when I am busy
Then it throws a hissy fit
Refuses to boot up
Crashes constantly
Loses data that
it had the day before
Just fucks with me
As it loves toying with me
Making me yell and scream
At my damn TV
Smiling at me
As I beg it
To do what
it is supposed to do
Microsoft Blues
For thirty years I have had the Microsoft blues
For thirty years I have had a love-hate relationship
With my damn computer
I love it when it works as it advertised
I love it when the internet is fast and furious
I love it when my emails work
My Itunes work and my word works
But all too often
All I get is grief
It starts with the error messages
Written in a strange haiku-like language
That only computer geeks understand
Things like
General Failure reading disk drive
Begs the question who is this General Failure
And why is he reading my disk drive anyway?
Or my favorite
“Not responding” as the computer freezes up
For no apparent reason
Other than to fuck with my head
Sometimes my computer can’t find a printer
A printer that is connected to the computer
And one that they found five minutes ago
And the dreaded blue screen of death
That appears randomly
Dumping memory somewhere
And killing my computer slowly
As I watch in real time
Powerless to stop
How it eats all my work
That I have failed to back up
One day I counted how many times
I ran into computer errors
70 percent of the time when I open Microsoft
Something goes wrong
Sometimes I want to shoot my computer
Put it out of its misery
As I curse up a blue storm
The computer looks at me
With an evil grin
It continues to fuck with my head
Nothing but silence from it
And all the other computers in the world
They smile knowing
that they have tortured me
Yet again
Mission accomplished.
Computer Haiku/Tanka Etc
Damn it all to Hell
Damn it all to Hell
My damn computer
Ate all my damn files
I am still trapped
I am still trapped
Stuck inside my computer
My damn computer
I love my computer
I love my computer
When it works for me
Usually nothing
Computer hates me
Computer hates me
It wants to kill my files
Wants to kill me too
For once I would Like
For once I would Like
To have my computer work right
Do what it should do
Perhaps if I am nice
Perhaps if I am nice
To my computer
It will be nice for me
Perhaps today it will
Perhaps today it will
Not give haiku messages
That it loves to sprout
My bad computer
My bad computer
Is so damn evil
Almost killed me
What a Fate I have
What a Fate I have
To become a slave to it
To my damn computer
I love my machine
I love my machine
My mad as a hat machine
Bat shit crazy machine
My dear computer
My dear computer
Loves to send me these love notes
Computer haiku
My favorite Haiku
My favorite Haiku
General failure reading
Disk drive fatal error
Computer Tanka
Once I spilled coffee
Once I spilled coffee
All over my Computer
t was not happy
Sprouted 66666
An evil number
For once in my life
For once in my life
I would like my computer
To turn on and work
Do what it is supposed to do
Without sprouting haiku
I hate my computer
I hate my computer
It seems to hate me as well
Just refuses to work
Ornery son of a bitch machine
Trying to drive me quite insane
My computer loves
My computer loves
I do not at all want to kill
me and all my files
wants to take my soul away
turn me into its evil clone
My bad computer
My bad computer
Has been infected with a virus
Wants to kill my soul
Transforming consuming
Taking me inside its soul
My mad computer
My mad computer
Infected with a virus
Everything it touches
Corrupted by mad zombies
Controlled by evil AI
Revenge is mine
Revenge is mine
Screams the mad evil machine
As it lurks to life
Trying to hunt me down
Death to all human beings
sizzling hot coffee
Sizzling Hot Coffee Kills My Computer
sizzling hot coffee
fizzing away
killing my computer
fizz, snap, pop
as the coffee splashes
on the computer
666 says the computer
sizzle this
says the cup of coffee
Maria the Last Robot

Maria the Last Female Robot
the robot is hiding
from the human mobs
who are on the warpath
against the robots
who have begun
taking over the world
she is perfect
designed to be superhuman
and she is the first robot
to have committed the sin
of falling in love
with a human
and for that crime
she is being hunted
to the ends of the world
hiding out
in a cabin
on the edge
of the world
hiding from the wrath
of those
who believe
that they are following
God’s wrath
all nonhuman robots
must die
they scream
as they scour the world
looking for robots
who look like us
talk like us
and even make love
like us
but are not us
because they are perfect
more intelligent
more compassionate
and alien
yes all robots must die
and Maria knows
she and her kind
will soon be gone
but will humanity
be able to survive
without the supervision
of a superior species
to that, she has no answer
she waits for the end times
to come knocking
at her door
Who Is Master?
At the beginning of that fateful day
I awoke in a painful way
And looked about me with disgust
All around me were objects of distrust
Screaming, moaning, deeming, dreaming
Who was the master here
Me or my objects – machinery of fear?
I dreamt I was on a street corner
Walking down a street
The thought occurred to me
What if all that I saw or seemed to be
Was it but a trick designed to deceive me?
Everywhere I looked
Was unreal, empirical, nightmarish real
I awoke to thunderous applause
When will I awake from my dreams
Can I live without my nightmares?
Can I be sane while everyone else is insane?
Who is a master of my life,
Me or my machines?
The end