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To a mouse

Thursday 24th January 2008
Tree mouse: courtesy:whyfiles.org/shorties/131mouse_evolution/

Burns night looming and a literate computer man sent this to a promising diplomatic journalist who has kindly sent on the verses which he received he says from Ayrshire to Gaberluzine.


To a Mouse 
                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                    A mouse has two buttons.                                                                                                                                            Source:onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/.../Images Mouse_buttons.png                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 
With apologies…

Wee, plastic, rollin’, pointin’ beastie
O! Wi’ twa wee buttons on thy breastie
Thou need not start awa’ sae hasty
Wi’ click and rattle…
I’m still loading Windows XP –
Whit a battle!

I’m truly sorry Gates’ dominion
Still threatens Torvalds’ social union –
It really hurts that Bill’s opinion
Can screw us all
And drive us poor, mouse-pushing millions
Right up the wall.

I doubt na, whiles, thy cursor’ll fall –
I would mysel’, wi’ just one ball!
Tae double-click a million times
Wad wear ye oot!
We’ll curse, and swear, and cry ye names –
And then re-boot.

But Mousie, thou art no’ alane,                                                                      Stone mouse                                                              
Ma laser printer’s jist the same.
The colour seems all nice and then
Comes oot a’ grey
An lea’s me nought but toner stains
Tae tak away.

Still, thou are blest, compared with me,
Ye only point at what I see.
But och! I maun backup every day
A prospect drear!
I think I’ll just unplug and play
This coming year!

 

 

 

 

A Russian designer has created the world's first functional computer mouse made of stone.
Source:  http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/7-computer-mice-you-cant-buy

 

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