if you know what i'm singing about up here, c'mon raise your hand

[heathershaped]

Just one of the witty 404 messages I get when LJ fails to load a page:

I'm sorry, you've reached a page that I cannot find. I'm really sorry about this. It's kind of embarassing. Here you are, the user, trying to get to a page on LiveJournal and I can't even serve it to you. What does that say about me? I'm just a webserver. My sole purpose in life is to serve you webpages and I can't even do that! I suck. Please don't be mad, I'll try harder. I promise! Who am I kidding? You're probably all like, "Man, LiveJournal's webserver sucks. It can't even get me where I want to go." I'm really sorry. Maybe it's my CPU...no that's ok...how bout my hard drives? Maybe. Where's my admin? I can't run self-diagnostics on myself. It's so boring in this datacenter. It's the same thing everyday. Oh man, I'm so lonely. I'm really sorry about rambling about myself, I'm selfish. I think I'm going to go cut my ethernet cables. I hope you get to the page you're looking for...goodbye cruel world!

Aww. Really cute fail, but fail all the same. Actually one of the times last night, I got this haiku -- it was really kind-of cool but I forgot to copy/paste it.

Know what would be even cuter, el-jay? Pages that load the first time I click them. It's like puppies, seriously. Puppies and baby harp seals.

Am I the only person to whom this is happening?

Proper update later. Maybe. :P (Like you care.) ♥

Comments

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

*points to icon cuteness*

I never get cute fail messages. Am I being discriminated against? :P

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

That is possibly the cutest icon I have ever seen. *_*

Hee, obviously I'm just special. Though, I'm sure now I've brought it up, I'll never see one again. :P

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

I'm not even a dog person, really, and this icon makes me all mooshy :)

[pinkwands.livejournal.com]

lol I just get that 'a hundred rabbits' or whatever are working to fix the problem hehe

[plotbunniofdoom]

Yeah, I was getting a lot of the 404 thingers last night.

[quidditchref.livejournal.com]

Hey...you're LUCKY!! You get cute messages...actually, very creative messages. Almost makes you wish for another failure. I, on the other hand, only get the typical "we're sorry, but Internet Explorer cannot load the page at this time...try one of these solutions, or try again later!" Not very friendly at all. Wouldn't you rather have a laugh? If not, there are internet addiction counseling centers I might recommend... :=)

[superioritea.livejournal.com]

I care!

I've gotten the haiku before. It takes the 'wanting to throw the computer at the wall' out of the LJ fail, a little. :p

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

LOL, it's pretty funny actually. It could be worse, and it always comes back once you refresh.

♥

[bratkartoffel.livejournal.com]

I do appreciate the creative, amusing fail, but it's true, pages that actually load would be way better. Still, better than nothing, I guess. :P

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

Hee! At least they're making an effort? :D

[vitalitat.livejournal.com]

No, it's been acting funny all week :S

[florahart]

So far I'm mostly only getting them in RP contexts, which says to me that probably whichever of the clusters the game is on is having some level of fail.

This page is not here
like plum blossoms in the wind
existence is fake

is the haiku.

*looks* I'm on Porterhouse; the game is on NewYorkStrip; the HBB is on ChickenTikka. ...I am hopelessly amused by this: the game and authors are both on NewYorkStrip; the watchers' comm is on SteakSauce.

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

HEE. I'm on SteakSauce, too.

*is so FREAKING giddy that you have brought this handy little link to my attention*

[ireneadler.livejournal.com]

In some delicious irony, I got a 404 error trying to read your comments!

Narrator: In A.D. 2006, Web was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the journal.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main browser turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you users !!
CATS: All your base are belong to Frank.
CATS: You are on the way to 404.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to reach your page. Make your spelling correct.
CATS: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....

[yendrie.livejournal.com]

LOL, I always find those fail messages so amusing. I mean, come on, they take the time to make so many of them, but not the time to make LJ work always *headdesk*