hello is not an integer

After sitting in the computer lab for hours working on an assembly program in the computer science department, my program was not working. It was supposed to take a number as input, but I was testing it with a string "hello". The desired output was just an error message saying that "hello is not an integer". The program was in fact detecting the error but there was an infinite loop in there somewhere, causing it to repeat that phrase endlessly. It was useless... but all of a sudden I noticed the beauty of the error. The repetition had created a pattern with the words. I took a screen shot. And then I kept adjusting the window size to get more and more patterns with more screen shots.

My frustration with the program had become art.