Insomnia

wait for sleep;

close eyes,

szzz ... szzz

 ;;;
#o ^#
# x #   BOOOM!
 #-#
  ;

open eye,

shift position, close eyes...

 /;/
#O O#
# x #   BLAM!
 #-#
  ;

select pillow, wait, mmm, szzz ... sleep;

 /!/
#O O#
# ^ #   BONK!
 #O#
  ;

study pipe handle, think ... wait,

for now, do nothing ...

sleep;

mmm ...

szzz.  szzz.

 /;/
#x x#
# ^ #   BRNNNG!
 #O#
  ;

alarm...damn
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Re: Insomnia by ProgrammingAce (Sexton) on Mar 01, 2002 at 23:35 UTC
Nothing like ASCII art to prove a point. Nice job. - Ace	[reply]
Re: Insomnia by biograd (Friar) on Mar 01, 2002 at 23:41 UTC
I thought this was very clever! I know the feeling that inspired it. ++ for creativity. btw, does it need a semi-colon at the end? -jenn	[reply]
Re: Re: Insomnia by perldork (Acolyte) on Mar 04, 2002 at 22:16 UTC
Thanks to both of your for the comments ... on my linux machine it doesn't ... perl -wc emits lots of warnings about this one, but it compiles. ASCII art is an easy way to get text that otherwise wouldn't compile with perl to do so ;).	[reply]