Love it Fred! joy
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:56 AM King, Fred <fred.k...@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.k...@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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Koha-US Mailing List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to koha-us+unsubscr...@koha-us.org. > To post to this group, send email to koha...@koha-us.org. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/koha-us.org/d/msgid/koha-us/CEB3319A384DF349947A4DA70B4C6610AC2E8188F0%40PMHEXCMBV004.MEDSTAR.AD.MEDSTAR.NET > . > -- Joy Nelson Vice President of Implementations ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
