April
21
2010

No Geeks at Happy Hour

Crashing computers
Leave precious little free time
For beer and haiku.

Written by Captain Hops.

References: Today an update from McAfee Anti-Virus caused computers around the globe to go belly up. Don’t expect to see many computer geeks at happy hour today. They will be fixing these computers. Perhaps it’s time to switch to Norton or maybe buy an iMac.

Thing of the day: HAVE A CRAPPY DAY Adult Hooded Sweatshirt

December
7
2008

Just Put That Anywhere

the barroom hubbub
punctured by crashing glasses
followed by cheering

Written by Captain Hops.

Thing of the Day: Libbey 12-Piece International Beer Set

September
29
2008

Daydreaming

My bottle crashes
On the head of my colleague.
The meeting goes on.

Written by Captain Hops.

Thing of the Day: Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job

April
15
2008

In A Digital World

Clicks of a crashed drive
A six pack and a few hours
I’ll need to restore

Written by Captain Hops

References: This morning as I entered my office, I was greeted by that most unwelcome click, click, click of a crashed hard drive. Fortunately, I had my work laptop available. Then when I tried to log into Beer Haiku Daily, I got the message that there was an “Error establishing a database connection”. I wonder what the third thing will be…
Thing of the day: BeerTender from Heineken and Krups B95 Home Beer-Tap System

September
12
2005

With friends like these…

Ungrateful bastard
I let you crash for the night
you drink my last beer

Written by Captain Hops.