Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:11:41 -0600 (CST) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Ode to Dr. Seuss (fwd) Message-ID: <9503172011.AA09946@olympus>
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Forwarded message: This is frightening... > > This was posted on Misc.education.home-school.misc. I don't know the > original author. > > ********************** > > A Grandchild's guide to using Grandpa's computer (Ode to Dr. Seuss) > > Bits. Bytes. Chips. Clocks. > Bits in bytes on chips in box. > Bytes with bits and chips with clocks. > Chips in box on ether-docks. > > Chips with bits come. Chips with bytes come. > Chips with bits and bytes and clocks come. > > Look, sir. Look, sir. Read the book, sir. > Let's do tricks with bits and bytes, sir. > Let's do tricks with chips and clocks, sir. > > First, I'll make a quick trick bit stack. > Then I'll make a quick trick byte stack. > You can make a quick trick chip stack. > You can make a quick trick clock stack. > > And here's a new trick on the scene. > Bits in bytes for your machine. > Bytes in words to fill your screen. > > Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir. > Try to say this by the clock, sir. > > Clocks on chips tick. > Clocks on chips tock. > Eight byte bits tick. > Eight bit bytes tock. > Clocks on chips with eight bit bytes tick > Chips with clocks and eight byte bits tock. > > Here's an easy game to play. > Here's an easy thing to say. > > If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, > And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, > And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, > Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report! > > If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, > And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, > And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, > Then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash. > > You can't say this? What a shame, sir! > We'll find you another game, sir. > > If the label on the cable on the table at your house > Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, > But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol, > That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, > And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss > So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse, > Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, > 'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang! > > When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk, > And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risc, > Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to ram your ROM. > Quickly turn off your computer and be sure to tell your mom! > -- Gene Ziegler > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________
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