Chat/Poetry for a Friday (Eastern US Time)
Esteemed Colleagues, Anyone uninterested in a bit of whimsy is urged to accept my apologies and hit the delete key. Some of you are aware that in addition to being a Koha sysadmin, our library's cataloging and tech services department, backup AV department, and a third to half of our reference department (counting noses or FTEs), I am also a poet. Well, poetaster. I usually inflict my works on the medical librarians' listserv, since most of my poetry medical in nature (I don't think most people here would be interested in a poem about central line infections). However, I think this poem deals with a subject that is familiar to us all. It takes the form of an imperfectly formed Pindaric ode. Imagine it's being read by Dylan Thomas. Released under Creative Commons-do with it what you will. If our respective e-mail systems mangle the formatting, you can see it properly formatted here: http://www.philobiblios.net/poetry/ode_to_a_deceased_printer.html Ode to a Deceased Printer O laser printer, workhorse of our realm With PCL 6 proudly at the helm We welcomed you on your beginning day Your printouts were a wonder to behold With illustrations for the tales they told Two-sided printing, and an extra tray But now you do grow old and out of sorts Make origami printouts of reports And spill out toner fine as any soot I am afraid at last thou art kaput Be off with you, dead printer, through the door And dying so, sleep your sleep mode no more Fred King Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king@medstar.net 202-877-6670 ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279 MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org Somehow it seems I managed to get old. I really have no idea how that happened. --Brian Baker
Love it Fred! joy On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:56 AM King, Fred <Fred.King@medstar.net> wrote:
Esteemed Colleagues,
Anyone uninterested in a bit of whimsy is urged to accept my apologies and hit the delete key.
Some of you are aware that in addition to being a Koha sysadmin, our library's cataloging and tech services department, backup AV department, and a third to half of our reference department (counting noses or FTEs), I am also a poet. Well, poetaster. I usually inflict my works on the medical librarians' listserv, since most of my poetry medical in nature (I don't think most people here would be interested in a poem about central line infections). However, I think this poem deals with a subject that is familiar to us all. It takes the form of an imperfectly formed Pindaric ode. Imagine it's being read by Dylan Thomas. Released under Creative Commons-do with it what you will. If our respective e-mail systems mangle the formatting, you can see it properly formatted here: http://www.philobiblios.net/poetry/ode_to_a_deceased_printer.html
Ode to a Deceased Printer
O laser printer, workhorse of our realm With PCL 6 proudly at the helm We welcomed you on your beginning day
Your printouts were a wonder to behold With illustrations for the tales they told Two-sided printing, and an extra tray
But now you do grow old and out of sorts Make origami printouts of reports And spill out toner fine as any soot I am afraid at last thou art kaput Be off with you, dead printer, through the door And dying so, sleep your sleep mode no more
Fred King Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king@medstar.net 202-877-6670 ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279 MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org
Somehow it seems I managed to get old. I really have no idea how that happened. --Brian Baker
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Bravo, Fred!! I "printed" it out and taped it to The Thing That Used to be a Good Printer/Copier/Scanner Yet Still Functions Just Enough That We Can't Get A Replacement. Thank you for the laughs! h2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez@nps.gov Library catalog: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/
Greetings, Reminds me of hardware related poetry I tried my hand at when I was in university, Fred. I love my 6-5-0-2 I do. It's simple paths I know so well. The blazing speed it gives to me, while Orchid compiles to hell. It should be noted that Orchid was the name of a server that we would be compiling our projects on, and the night before the due date was always the worst. I remember learning 6502 assembler on my Apple ][ and it was fun to write code there compared to the hellishly slow churning of a server being flogged to near death by hundreds of students compiling. This poem may be shared with attribution, but not varied nor sold. I love my baby too much. Whatever that CC license is, apply it. :) GPML, Mark Tompsett
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