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The ProdigyHis birth an important occasion
A day soberly celebrated
By his parents - they were more than proud presently
Of the offspring whom they had created

Their Prodigy was strong and robust
But did not deserve his parents' trust
For the Prodigy was very ill-fated

His life had not been long-lived
By the time whence the horrors begin
Of course, one insists, he still lives on somewhere
But the same is not so for his kin

Though their Prodigy was all they had hoped
With his next, they could never have coped
And their Prodigy soon did them in

From his place where they'd kept him, he sprang
Still young, but fantastically strong
They belie

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This is an actual error message I got while running Windows Vista. I kid you not. I don't recall the context, I just know that one day, my computer did something right, and it apparently felt bad about it.
"Error: The operation completed successfully."
Apparently Windows and I have different ideas of what an error is. While I might claim that an error would be, for example, stopping my DVDs mid-action-sequence, putting half of my files in a folder I can't find while having never prompted it to do so, crashing my internet browser four times in rapid succession for reasons unexplained other than a generic alert, or, I don't know, leaving me in fear that my next left-click could be my last before the entire godforsaken machine seizes like an epileptic at a sweet rave party - yes, while all of THOSE are errors in my book - Windows apparently considers success itself to be a fatal mistake.
This explains so much.
No I'm not going Mac. Leave me alone.
This delightful error message/OS screenshot is brought to you by Microsoft. Respect.

~GangWarlord Jan 17, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

I dunno what's stranger. The fact that Microsoft thinks that success is an error (somehow I'm not very surprised), or the fact that you've got a link to your DA page as a desktop shortcut, while it'd be much more handy to have it in your favourites or somethin'.
And then there's the fact that you don't seem to have a wallpaper, other than a spread of black space. Are you a goth, by any chance?

*MykelTDT Jan 17, 2009

First off, the error message IS my wallpaper. This deviation is a desktop screenshot. I took a screenshot of the message a long time ago, then cropped it down to the error alone (hence the pointy border). I centered it as my background, so the extra space just got filled in with black.
Also, the link is on my desktop for convenience purposes. I put it there when I realized that I go to DA more than any other page by far these days. So, in addition to it being in my favorites list, there's also a direct link to my page on my desktop. So I don't have to take the arduous extra steps of opening IE and filtering through faves folders for the link. Because obviously, I just don't have that kind of time. >> << It's like fifteen seconds that I JUST CAN'T SPARE.

~GangWarlord Jan 19, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

Ohhhhh, I get it now. Sorry.
Quite... Interesting.

~Blackbelt534 Jan 17, 2009

lol

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