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Good Ol’ BASIC

13 Saturday Aug 2016

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Fun

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BASIC, free verse, poetry

Here’s a free verse ode to my very first computer programming language, good old BASIC:

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I Have a Spelling Checker

27 Friday Jun 2014

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Friday, funny poetry, humor, poetry, spell check

These days it seems like spell checkers exist in almost everything. Word processing software has had them a long time, although in the early days you had to invoke the spell check function. These days software  handily underlines misspelled words in real-time (with sometimes an advanced function we can invoke).

It always struck me as pretty lame how people (well, let’s be honest: managers) would present PowerPoint documents in important meetings with the red jagged “you misspelled this” underline sprinkled throughout their document.  What exactly did they think that meant?

But enough about managers. It’s Friday and time for some fun, so here’s an old, old poem about spelling checkers…

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