[Koha] Chat/Poetry for a Friday (Eastern US Time)

[King, Fred]

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
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Somehow it seems I managed to get old. I really have no idea how that happened.
--Brian Baker

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[Joy Nelson]

Love it Fred!

joy

Post by King, Fred
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
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
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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[Hernandez, Heather]

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
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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, ***@nps.gov
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[Mark Tompsett]

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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