Thursday Thoughts - Smart Phone Apps and Technological Advances

The Workey Jerkey

by Rachel Hoyt

image by Victor Habbick via freedigitalphotos.net

You put a gadget in,

You pull part of a job out,

You put a gadget in,

Then you shake the gigs about -

You do the Workey Jerkey

As the world spins round and round -

That's what work's all about!

You put some software in,

You pull more humans out,

You put more software in,

Crunch and shake brain cells about -

You do the Workey Jerkey

As the world spins round and round -

That's what work's all about!

You put a robot in,

You take multiple jobs out,

You put a robot in,

The economy swings about -

You do the Workey Jerkey

As the world spins round and round -

That's what work's all about!

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

 

We can't be inconvenienced to diagnose our ills,

And desire same day delivery to increase our shopping thrills,

Then wonder why we have no money to pay the bills.

How do we expect to fix the recession

if robots are required for our world's progression?

 

 

Technorati Tags: Robot, Jobs, jobs, Poem, Rhyme, Poetry

Thursday Thoughts - Recycling TVs and Other Technology

Terry Tout and the Garbage Spout

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by bplanet via freedigitalphotos.net

 

 

Terry Tubert Timothy Tout

Learned young to take his garbage out.

He knew how to pick pieces off,

How to spew prices as he coughed,

The men to sluff the best parts to,

And what they'd cost if there were few.

He kept his piles from piling up.

He bought fine whiskey for his cup.

He watched the piles go in and out.

Terry Tubert Timothy Tout

Got rich off a garbage spout -

But then the spout would not turn off

And the fumes made his workers cough,

No people prized the parts he picked,

Profits vanished as trash grew thick.

So Terry Tout fled the scene too,

Mad from watching as trash piles grew,

Afraid tech trash will chase him down -

It took his job, why not his town?

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

This week's rhyme was inspired by some news on e-waste

and the effects of tech trends changing with haste.

 

Technorati Tags: Waste, Electronics, Poem, Technology, Recycling, Poetry

Techno Brains

Image by Salvatore Vuono via freedigitalphotos.net

I remember my mom's first Palm Pilot.

We all joked that she'd bought

a better brain; coherent thought.

Now our "brains" are bigger and faster.

The cell phone has become our master.

We rely on it to save us from disaster.

Talking while walking, you can't look before

crossing the street - is danger in store?

A phone app can alert you to that which you ignore.

You also don't need a detective

to determine if your spouse defected.

Find my phone app = location detected.

Never worry about drunk dialing again.

Let the Designated Dialer decide when

your hands are too shaky to call a "friend".

And when teens and technology start driving you nuts,

and you need a phone app's help (and have guts),

get the Annoy a Teen app!  It's fun - no ifs, ands, or buts!

Never again waste time thinking independently!

If there's no app yet, there'll be one eventually.

Techno brains will rule some day... inevitably!

© 2011 - All Rights Reserved - Rachel Hoyt

 

Technorati Tags: Technology, Phone, Brain, Humor, Sarcasm, Poetry

Not-So-Super Supercomputers

Sometimes I think the "kids" these days

forget their phones are little computers.

As soon as it shows its imperfect ways

they want to trash it like techie polluters.

Like Cookie Monster, the next generation

wants what it wants, how it wants, when it wants.

I feel like I'm having an old age revelation

as failure to meet expectations inevitably daunts.

poem © 2011 - all rights reserved - Rachel Hoyt

Technorati Tags: Entertainment, Video, Computers, Humor, Technology, Poetry


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