With thanks and credit to Eric van der Merwe
who introduced me to this phrase from Walt Mossberg
(Wall Street Journal)
There are widgets and gadgets
and thingemy-bobs
3 g and “stokkies”
broadband and asdl
wireless and bluetooth ...
there are ipods and pads
and berries in every hue
netbooks and notebooks
and siri talks on your iphone
who knew?
then there’s outlook
on a windows pc
which doesn’t have any view
word which isn’t perfect
and notes simply don’t excel
now there’s the dropbox
and boxnet and things
they are out on the clouds or
ether somewhere, me thinks
So when I sit down to write
I give a long, long sigh
pick up my journal and pen
hug a tree in my mind
it seems I have been diagnosed
without much hope for a cure
“they” say I am techno-terrified
(I like to think challenged)
and so I am, or seem to be
a lifelong member
Of the Dead Tree Format Society
04 January 2012
who introduced me to this phrase from Walt Mossberg
(Wall Street Journal)
There are widgets and gadgets
and thingemy-bobs
3 g and “stokkies”
broadband and asdl
wireless and bluetooth ...
there are ipods and pads
and berries in every hue
netbooks and notebooks
and siri talks on your iphone
who knew?
then there’s outlook
on a windows pc
which doesn’t have any view
word which isn’t perfect
and notes simply don’t excel
now there’s the dropbox
and boxnet and things
they are out on the clouds or
ether somewhere, me thinks
So when I sit down to write
I give a long, long sigh
pick up my journal and pen
hug a tree in my mind
it seems I have been diagnosed
without much hope for a cure
“they” say I am techno-terrified
(I like to think challenged)
and so I am, or seem to be
a lifelong member
Of the Dead Tree Format Society
04 January 2012