{"id":47,"date":"2011-10-05T23:44:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T06:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-10-05T23:44:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T06:44:25","slug":"arties-dirge-in-the-dark-for-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/arties-dirge-in-the-dark-for-steve-jobs","title":{"rendered":"Artie’s Dirge in the Dark for Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using and loving Apple products since I bought my Macintosh IIsi 3MB\/40MB in 1994 with my babysitting\/yardwork money. Steve Jobs brought a lot of magic to the world. -Artie<\/em><\/p>\n

“Apple Pie”<\/p>\n

A long, long time ago,
\nI can still remember when the UNIX prompt could make me smile.
\nAnd when the login didn’t fail,
\nWe all could check if we had mail
\nAnd we would all be happy for a while.<\/p>\n

But Cupertino’s press releases
\nDashed October hopes to pieces:
\nBad news at the keynote.
\nIt seems that’s all that she wrote.
\nI almost gave in to despair
\nWhen I thought about the market share
\nAnd nothing in the world seemed fair
\nThe day the UNIX died.<\/p>\n

So bye-bye, Mr. iApple Pie
\nWhile the press reads RSS feeds, RSS feeds reply.
\nThe blogosphere is toasting mud in your eye
\nAnd saying “This’ll be the day that I die.
\nThis’ll be the day that I die.”<\/p>\n

Did you write the native code
\nAnd do you chmod the [options] mode
\nIf the README tells you to?
\nDo you believe in plug and play?
\nWill iPhone work with Sprint someday?
\nDo you remember when the hammer flew?<\/p>\n

Well I know your modem’s preinstalled
\n‘Cause your line was busy when I called
\nYou need a separate jack
\nTo plug it in the back.<\/p>\n

I was a high faluting network deb,
\nWith a fast connection to the World Wide Web,
\nBut I knew I was at low ebb
\nThe day the UNIX died.<\/p>\n

I started Tweeting:
\n“Bye-bye, Mr. iApple Pie
\nWhile the press reads RSS feeds, RSS feeds reply.
\nThe blogosphere is toasting mud in your eye
\nAnd saying ‘This’ll be the day that I die.’
\nThis’ll be the day that I die.'”<\/p>\n

So there were all in one place
\nIn Generation Cyberspace
\nControl-splat-on to start again…
\nWhen Doctor Newton warned us to pay heed
\nIn a note, which no one here could read,
\n‘Cause Isaac is a devil with a pen.<\/p>\n

And as we watched in ninety-five
\nFew die-hard fans were left alive
\nNo angel born in Hell
\nCould guard those Gates so well.<\/p>\n

And as the rebels welcomed back their Jobs
\nHe laid off hordes of angry mobs
\nThe whole valley shook with sounds of sobs
\nThe day the UNIX died.<\/p>\n

They were Tweeting:
\n“Bye-bye, Mr. iApple Pie
\nWhile the press reads RSS feeds, RSS feeds reply.
\nThe blogosphere is toasting mud in your eye
\nAnd saying ‘This’ll be the day that I die.’
\nThis’ll be the day that I die.'”<\/p>\n

I met a girl named Bondi Blue
\nAnd I asked if she liked iPad 2
\nBut she just smiled and turned away.
\nI went down to the Apple Store
\nWhere I’d bought my PowerBook G4
\nBut the man there said that iTunes wouldn’t play.<\/p>\n

And in quick time, the headlines flashed.
\nThe fail whales flew, the servers crashed.
\nThe home page simply stated:
\n“His network signal faded.”<\/p>\n

And the one man who defined our age
\nHe wrapped his keynote, left the stage,
\nAnd “liked” his cloud computing page
\nThe day the UNIX died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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