Regarding your infinite loop:

Theoretically.
Ephemeral hardware.
Balloons rise so high.

Or,

Til sysadmin runs
pee ess oh etime args, and
pkill while_looper!
 

(In my opinion, "the while(1){} loop" reads as, "the while one loop".)

Update: Yay, posted by me, not repellent.