Today I taught my last classes (barring any weird last minute scheduling) of the semester! That makes me happy. More faux poetry:
7 ways of looking at Data Loss
I
My Documents folder
empty and barren
a wasteland of lost data
II
An instruction librarian
without her archived handouts
sighs about data loss
III
I open up Excel
my statistics are lost data
IV
A librarian and her tutorials
are one
A librarian without her tutorials
is lost
V
I do not know who to blame
tech support for losing my data
or me, who forgot to burn a disc
before my old computer
was carted away
VI
Emptiness fills my soul
as I calculate how
to reconstruct lost data
I know how I’m spending
my summer
VII
0101010101000
0101010101010101
00101101010000101
0001001010101010
0101010101010111
………………………………
[#$&!@ data loss]
10:57 pm on April 13th, 2005 1
You have my sympathies. I lost my address book and calendar last fall because I hadn’t synced my PDA before the battery died.
12:26 am on April 14th, 2005 2
Ah, thanks. I think I’m finally moving on to the acceptance stage, so I’m going to stop complaining about it now
9:32 am on April 14th, 2005 3
Sorry to hear about your data loss. Such a bummer when that stuff happens.
8:48 pm on April 14th, 2005 4
Pain. Amnesia. Agony. Tough lesson. One that Mere du Tangognat has never learned.