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From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
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Subject: Ode to Dr. Seuss (fwd)
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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
> 


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 Boyd Faulkner                                  faulkner@isd.tandem.com 
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