They sit in front of you
Doing your will,
Or do they?
You use the hardware
To talk to the software,
Hoping it understands.
But come the day
When the software decides,
Decides to go its own way
And that is when you find out,
Find out why hardware is called hardware,
And software is called software.
You throw the computer against the wall,
A resounding crash shows you,
What the hardware is,
While the software silently skulks off,
Skulks off into the ether.
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Author:
Goldfinch60 (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Before retiring I worked for a computer software company and one day I actually saw this happen, one of my colleagues could just not get his computer to work so he threw it at a wall! The rest of us cheered loudly as he did what we would all have loved to do on some occasions! He did not get into trouble as he was the one that wrote most of the software for the company.
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Oohh, should we try this?! heehee. I said to folk; talk nicely to photocopiers and other machinery; it will help!' But they almost booted them, as in kicking them, not as in 'booting up' to start them.
Yes 'booting' them releases tension and hurts the foot so they have other things to worry about.
Great stuff! Thank you kindly! Never works with the dogs but really it would be my brain I wish to do the same with! Dam automated things 😉
OUr lives are being controlled by dam automated things Dan. Thanks for your fine response.
I can imagine this happening... push a button, tick a box and pop a pill... what happens to all the words and stuff inside a pc after hitting something hard like a wall.. I have often wondered....
I think we have all wondered Neville but those words will be in the ether somewhere. I know that for a fact as when I was in control of a sections mainframe I mistakenly out in a wrong code and the info on the computer started to be deleted. I managed to retrieve it before anybody noticed.
Very thought provoking poem about computers.
Thank you Lamar.
BRIAN HERE ~ THANKS UNCLE ANDY ! Love LULLABY of BIRDLAND a simple but haunting tune. We attended the 60th Anniversary Tour of Ronnie Scotts last Night very informative ! Piano - Drums - Slap Bass & Sax in first half plus a Lady singer after the interval ~ all very nostalgic !
Love you POEM it struck a bell with all PC users ! Ive called mine some naughty words but never thrown at Wall. It has slipped off the desk once or twice but (thank GOD) it survived. Thats the advantage of Printed Circuits over VALVES !
Blessings to YOU & JOYCE
Love A & B 🧡💙🧡💙🧡
Please check DANCING ~ Thanks !
Thanks Brian, I too have not thrown a computer yet but I have become very close to so doing.
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