[MLB-WIRELESS] a ditty...

[Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen]

Hi all,

someone mentioned a microwave link going down... the rest happenned  
spontaneously...

------- Forwarded message -------
(local fortune file 1529-1532)

Here comes the rain again,
Falling on my dish like a cut-out switch,
Chopping off the world like a lead antenna.
I want a link that is waterproof.
I want a line that is wired in.
Want to send ATM packets
When its drizzling outside.

{Refrain}
So airwaves, talk to me
Like you use to,
Work for me
Like wires do,
Transmit me
Like you're s'posed to!

Here comes the rain again,
Cutting off the net in mid-sendmail.
Cutting FTP, lost another download.
(Damn!)
I want to microwave the engineers.
I want to nuke the receiver dish.
Want to tear out the transponder
And the odd throat or two.

{Refrain}

Here comes the rain again:
Time to go and read ACM Transactions.
Time enough to read several books by Tolstoy.
(There, it's up again! No, it's down again!
  Argh, argh, argh, argh, argh, argh, argh, argh....)
It only works on a sunny day
It only works when the winds are light
A multi-million dollar detector
That its raining outside....

{Repeat last verse ad infinitum
  or until link is re-established (whichever comes first)}}

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Also take a look at 1522 and following...

From: debbie
Definitely going to write another song parody. . .
"Rainy Days at Monash All the Net Falls Down".
From: void
"Raindrops keep falling on the link"?
From: void
"Rainy days killed the microwave link..."

From: void
It's raining, it's pouring
the net link is falling
the packets get sent
but don't reach the end
But it should be ok by the morning.
   -- Optimist

From: okesan
The link is half /full/!
From: debbie
. . of water?
From: okesan
Certainly not of data... :-p
   -- The eternal argument: half full or half useless?

From: lamble
I've got water
On the VRN link
When it's wet outside
It decides to sink...
From: debbie
. . I guess you'd think
What I think about the link
I hurl
(I hurl)
(I hurl) . .

From: void
Monash had a little link
which wasn't waterproof
and every time the rain came down
the users hit the roof.
   -- Perhaps we could insulate it with some fleece . . .

From: void
Pitter patter goes the rain
While I'm thinking yet again
That our current dishes probably could
Be replaced by something good.

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#  #       # & Anja van den Bergen
####  #    # Glen Waverley VIC 3150 Australia
   #   ###### gabpaul at melbpc.org.au
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