[ cross posted from Infocult ]
For your ghoulish winter entertainment…
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Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago School economists and fellow travelers.
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Haikuish in the spirit of other tech classics:
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
– Peter Rothman
Amazing. I just had a quick email to and fro with Peter Rothman — an old online friend — this afternoon. And here he is…
Funny story about that haiku, I once threatened Microsoft with a lawsuit for reprinting it with out permission. It was sort of a joke although they had reused my haiku and a number of others without permission, but they didn’t think so ;)
Hi Peter:
It was really quite a surprise, emailing you yesterday for the first time in quite a while, and then coming here and finding your haiku (which I’d seen many times) with your name attached (I don’t think I’d known you wrote it) – delightful, in any case!
Very timely.
This is now the greatest comment thread in the history of ChicagoBoyz.