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Somewhere On The Windows Server by Robert Wynne and Jeffrey Williams Music: "Somewhere Down The Crazy River" by Robbie Robertson © 2004 Yeah, I can see it now The flashing green link light shimmered in the dark I was feeling like a user on a strange site You know, where people play games on the net? God, it was too slow to post I followed the link to an mp3 site from somewhere out in Asia All of a sudden, I could hear someone whispering from right behind me I turned around and she said "Why do you always end up on the chat room page? I said "I don't know, the links just kind of led me this way." She said "Hang the proc" Dump the blue screenGrab a jpg of this The machine room is empty, abandoned 486 server Sitting at the console listening to Little Billy Gates Yeah, that's when your apps stood still Y'know, I'm gonna go down to the CompuShak And let 'em build my box She said "That UNIX stuff don't do nothing for me I'm a man who needs virus protection I'm a man with a broadband connection You load the line You slow the net I can find my files yet Dump the blue screenWait, did you see that? Man, this is stirring up some errors for me She said "There's one thing you gotta learn Is how to keep rebooting it." I said "No, I hate it. I hate it, it sucks." She said, "You hate it now, but you'll learn to loathe it later." Dump the blue screenI've been coredumped -- failing the trace I've been coredumped -- failing the trace Log on the system -- disks and mem'ry I've been coredumped -- somewhere on the Windows server
This is another case of Jeff and me being silly in conversation and having it lead to a pretty nifty song. Both of us have been big fans of Robbie Robertson for years, and especially of the moody jazz noir of "Somewhere Down the Crazy River". If I can figure out a way to recreate the accompaniment to this, I'd love to actualyl perform it someday, or see someone else do so. It's such a cool tune, it'd have to be done "right" for it to work.
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