Poetry For Sysadmins: Shall I Compare Thee To a Lumbering Bear? 31
itwbennett writes Don't forget that July 25th is Sysadmin Day — a good day to show love to the folks who save your butt again and again when you mess up your computer. Forget the chocolate and flowers, long-time sysadmin Sandra Henry-Stocker has tailored some poems to celebrate these under appreciated, hard-working souls.
Sandra? (Score:1)
Hmm. That's a weird name for a guy.
Guess it's not the greatest day. (Score:2)
Re:Guess it's not the greatest day. (Score:5, Funny)
Re: (Score:2)
LOL
ACK! Ignore! (Score:1)
Please, for the love of your own mental health, do not click the story's hyperlink to the poems.
They are just bad. I might not have been able to do better if I was in kindergarten. By third grade, yes, I could have. If I just spent five or ten minutes trying.
If you want something to lighten your mood today, check out Despair.com [despair.com] or spend some time reading XKCD [xkcd.com]. And if you don't get XXKCD, there is ExplainXKCD [expalinxkcd.com] which can help.
But, please, please, please, don't read those poems that the story's hyperlink p
Re: ACK! Ignore! (Score:1)
sysadmin poetry == Vogon poetry
Speaking as a sysadmin (Score:4, Insightful)
If I find myself fixing someone's computer, then someone else is not doing their job properly. That's why we have (competent) help-desk staff. As a sysadmin I'm far too busy looking after servers, storage and network to worry about your PC. If I'm doing my job properly, you'll never see me.
Re: (Score:2)
Smaller organisations have not enough servers or users to justify separate staff, so it's not uncommon to see a sysadmin who also does support, or support staff who also admin the couple of servers the office needs.
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Smaller organisations have not enough servers or users to justify separate staff, so it's not uncommon to see a sysadmin who also does support, or support staff who also admin the couple of servers the office needs.
I would say this situation is not just "not uncommon", but ubiquitous.
I would even say that most people whose job title is some derivative of "system administrator" do at least some end-user or desktop support as part of their day-to-day job duties.
Poetry says ReadMe ... (Score:1)
http://www.advogato.org/person/ReadMe/diary.html?start=9#0 [advogato.org]
+ Like most public domain distributions this package contains a README.
+ Unlike those packages, this one contains ***only*** a README.
Bootstrap
begin
{
else you are reading then someone has been writing;
I am that someone;
I am a literature machine;
}
Wrong audience (Score:1, Troll)
Poetry isn't for left-brained types. It is the province of free-thinkers, of artists, it's not really intended for anyone else. The low number of comments on this article is evidence enough nobody cares.
"Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's," wrote Philip Larkin, "and everybody else can fuck off."
Re:Wrong audience (Score:5, Insightful)
Anonymous jewels (Score:2)
Do not Rhyme (Score:2)
Beer (Score:3)
Seriously.
Haiku (Score:2)
I think changing the messages produced by 404 pages so that they produce haiku similar o that produced by BeOS its NetPositive browser runs into a problem would be funny, especially if the sysadmin doesn't know about it!