On 8/5/2016 7:11 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 05.08.2016 um 16:50 schrieb Stephen:
>
>>
>> Speak severely to your ‘putor,
>> and boot it when it glitches.
>> It only does it to annoy,
>> because it knowns it itches.
>
> "Roughly". It must be "roughly". Go ask Alice, I think she'll know.
>

Oh my goodness. I paraphrased it wrong all those years ago.
I think my version scans better when talking about 'puters.


> That said, percussive maintenance and the liberal application of
> "booting" is no new invention in the human-machine relationship.
> (Instead of boots, clogs were also famously used.)
>

As a maintenance engineer. I know that you don't get paid for kicking 
the box but for knowing *where* to kick the box.


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Regards
     Stephen

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