Honestly, I don't think you can stay in I/T without at least a few strands of optimism in your neural wiring. (Although--oddly enough--a healthy streak of paranoia is never a bad trait for anyone who has to keep systems up & running & un-hacked.) That being said, the dewy-eyed-gee-whiz-ain't-technology-grand attitude that the magazine & gadget blog industry trades on can become a little insufferable at times. Luckily (for anyone else who feels this way), the antidote comes your way in five-line doses, starting...now.
Your smartphone looks new and so sleek
Palm-cradled or upside your cheek.
Yet buyers' remorse
Will come in due course:
A cooler one launches next week.
Computers forever surprise
Inverting chips' power to size:
Crunching data to store--
With less being Moore.
(If only our brains worked likewise.)
Instructions you'd joyfully pen
To head off computer mayhem.
Then 't'would be All Good,
If peeps only could
Stop freaking and RTFM.
On keyboard you've labored all day;
Your masterpiece goes to QA.
Yet, though unit-tests
Gave hopes for the best,
Bug tickets are headed your way.
Our tech. will be thrilled to discuss
The error that's caused so much fuss.
Please continue to hold
Until you grow old:
Your call is important to us.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Frivolous Friday, 06.04.2010: Schadenfriday limericks, Part II
