Homer's (the blind man's) poetry as seen by the waiter

"Iliad X"

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tactics
 

with the traffic at a standstill his mind was
on the workbook...

...and if he dropped data in on a cell
containing data, his spreadsheet program humored him:
DO YOU WANT TO REPLACE THE CONTENTS
OF THE DESTINATION CELL?
she asked.

Sort was the command used to rearrange
data in alphabetical order.
He turned off the road into a shopping
center and at a drugstore he bought
Aspirins, Bayer of course.

Because all television adds said:
"For heart attacks!"
Not that he needed any.

So he asked the store clerk to gift-
wrap the bottle.
He thought:
"The bottle needed to be scanned first,
after wrapping it up it will be too late."

Now the price had to be put in by hand!
There are so many different ways to copy
data from one place to another.

His preference was drag and drop
over copy and paste, but not always,
keyboard entries were so slow.

A scanner would be nice too, he thought.
"Data can be sorted in ascending order
descending Data can be edited too."

A lowrider performed a stunning show.
Two competing young women in short skirts
drove the machisimo fellows insane.

For after all they showed the full
length of their short legs yielding to
pink and purple colors.

Unknit wool as underwear
which looked much too much
just like their real hair.

The gasoline indicator showed low.
Soon a blinking red light
controlled by a computer chip
told him nicely:

"You may refill your gas-tank
Or get prepared to call the
number on the plastic card (triple A)."

The central processing unit between both
his ears matched information received with
info stored only to come up with
a most splendid solution,

as the AAA-lady last time said: "You
have no tows left on your card"
his options were limited to pushing
or getting gasoline.

Proudly he showed his latest credit
card off to a magnetic reading device at the pump.
Questions were displayed like:

Do you want a receipt? Yes/No,
One Moment and
Card Declined.

Clever him he tried another four of
these magnetic plastic cards, until
one worked.

Isn't the human mind fascinating?

Plastic and sand (silicon) are today's
most valuable items in many people's
possessions.

What happened to Gold- and Silver-
Standards?
What happened to diamonds and
land-values?

Stock-markets based on paper and futures
are going through the roof,
gambling is the In-thing.

Gambling and losing precious time
to worthless enterprises.

...and why did Crazy Horse dismount to
fire his gun ?
  (William Heyen in The Steadying)
 
 
 
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