Some people have too much time on their hands

[reynardo]

Cross-posted to techsupport

Email
To: Lead Tech Desk
From: Floor rep

My monitor is a piece of crap. Can I have a new one?

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Email
To: Floor Rep
From: Lead Tech Desk

I wanted a slighty more descriptive output...

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Email
To: Lead Tech Desk
From: Floor rep

Forsooth, this monitoring bright device
From which the light of far and distant lands
Commingles thereupon with figures bright
Reduced to photons viewed through clearest sand

Full many years has signal passed through glass
Until, with nature's slow and sure decay
The figures once so clear and pure of line
Have quietly begun to fade away.

Solutions to this problem come to mind:
Should one remove the monitor and drop
Upon the concrete this quite fragile case?
Or patiently wait for sight to stop?

I call upon the Techs to see this grue,
Have pity, and to bring me one anew.

I'll let you know what the result is.

*edited for one spelling and one mistype - drzero was right - it should have been "bright".*

Comments

[drzero.livejournal.com]

Now, y'see, this is why poets and IT don't mix...

[drzero.livejournal.com]

In addition, I love the line about 'clearest sand', v. clever :)

[ambitious-wench.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is a thing of utter beauty. I LOVE it!

[notasquirrel.livejournal.com]

*clapclapclapclap* woo hoo!! {shrillskwerllywhistle} onkore!

[djfiggy.livejournal.com]

I'm intimidated. That's probably better than any poetry I've produced.

But it could have used a caterpiller. Misspelling and all.

[jazzmasterson.livejournal.com]

*cigarettelighterinair*

[fluffy-cloud.livejournal.com]

*tosses roses onto the stage*

[malada.livejournal.com]

So nice. Most excellent.

-m

[emu-bitter-babe.livejournal.com]

I think that's the most beautiful thing I've read all year ;)

Coolness

[ex-cerebrate131.livejournal.com]

Hell, that would get one of my users an instant upgrade in either size or type of monitor, easily.

*whistles, applauds, throws flowers*

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

For that, I reckon you deserve a 21 inch flatscreen!

Utterly marvellous.

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

Hee! :-)

[asheraa.livejournal.com]

*sniffle* *dabs tear from eye*

that was beeeyooodyfull!!!

Capital!

[harliquinn.livejournal.com]

Oh my, that made my morning. I agree with drzero that the "clearest sand" reference is quite clever.

Re: Capital!

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Me three, wrt to that reference.

And I think this might be one case where the user does deserve the support he's asking for.

Re: Capital!

[harliquinn.livejournal.com]

It is all too frequently the opposite.

:)

[deor.livejournal.com]

*applause* Oh, very good!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_finbar_/]

you must tell me how this ended!!
*pictures James reading it, spending a minute pounding his head on the desk*

I think you'd confuse paul, james or angelo. Jason would just shake his head.

Correct?

Or are the Leadtechs different again?

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

er... there's a new Lead Tech Fill-in replacement type bod. You might have met her (*blush*).

Oh, and have you read james_aus or nassbar? Quite enlightening.

And there's been a request for coffee. I'll let you know as soon as the others tell me.

BTW, how the hell did you know it was Ren James I was sending that to?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_finbar_/]

ok, let me know ASAP regarding the coffee.....the bigger the order the better:) and i'll need to know the bat phone number ( i lost it) for when i deliver it *grins*

As for how I knew? I used Logic!
ren??
who would be lead tech on night shift when you are on? the list is small

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

ren??

Ren and Stimpy. You don't think James looks like Ren?

And I'm Stimpy, of course.

The list isn't that small - all the guy shave been on one night or another, although yes, it is more likely to be Paul than anyone else. Of course, from now the list is up by one :-)

[nassbar.livejournal.com]

No they're about the same,
I just shook my head and left the email for someone else to deal with :)

Although some wise person decided to give us more crap to do and well it just aint sitting well, it is more painful if anything hehe

[mdsteele47.livejournal.com]

*snaps in approval*

*looks for waitress for a refill on my latté*