Friday, March 24, 2006

World's shortest list: Bluegrass songs about PC memory problems

Occasionally, I like to listen to Bluegrass Junction on my satellite radio and 99% of the songs are about mountains, moonshine, and mudflaps. But today I laughed my rear off at Tim O’Brien’s song of downloading problems on a poorly equipped PC. Here’s “Runnin’ out of memory for you” (a bluegrass song):

Well I got an email from you darlin
It said you'd sent me a file
It was a full-length picture, jpeg format
But I never got to see you smile
I thought of what you might be wearin
Just then my server software froze
I tried rebooting, tried compression
But it would not open past your nose

My color screen won't even function
It's one big solid field of blue
My hard drive it went soft
My application coughed
And I'm a runnin out of memory for you

I sat alone there at my work place
Just a thinkin of the good times that we had
I was dumpin data to a zip drive
I was strokin on the old mouse pad
I went down to my computer center
Just to buy me a megabyte of ram
Then I hurried on back to my work place
I had my memory module in my hand

I opened up my PC casing
I thought I knew just what I'd do
But it was all for naught
There were no expansion slots
And I'm a runnin out of memory for you

My color screen won't even function
It's one big solid field of blue
My hard drive it went soft
My application coughed
And I'm a runnin out of memory for you

For extra credit, check out Weird Al Yankovic’s “It’s all about the Pentiums

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