#Onelinerwednesday
Speaking to a Mobile phone gets things lost in translation
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Voice to text
Category: Technology
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Making the pieces fit
#fowc #modular
I
To keep the prices down
The chair and desk you are sitting at
Take a different form from the one in the showroom
They all fit flat to fit in the back of the car and
There’s a handy little hexagonal key – to help you fix
The pieces together
II
Technology is a funny thing….
They’re handing out computers in the form of kits
To the school children in Technology class
There’s a main board and lots of little add ons
to connect to it
there’s smiles all round – with lights and sounds galore
III
The strange thing about all of this –
there’s always one piece of the electric jigsaw
that doesn’t seem to fit
tweeks and turns you’ll try to get it in the box
then it’ll go back in the box – the cardboard one – for its not on the instructions
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A draw of odds and ends
#Napowrimo
11th April 2021
so easy to access,
and then so hard to close
recepticle for things you say you need
the things you say you’ll use one day
and things you can’t throw away
Notepad’s and pencils that have been well chewed
share space with computer drives that’s been acrued
manuals for tech that lives round the house
together with cameras (and occasional mouse)
A couple of shavers long seen light of day
A Tape recorder longing to hear summat play
while resting on papers also kept there in
Documents for stuff – you’ve long shown the bin
but under the manuals – memories galore
those nik-naks you’ve kept from weddings and more
kept under the papers you can’t throw away
pictures and postcards of a happier day
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Ring
#Socs #Ring
the noise of many things in the house
from the alarm clock that wakes you in the morning
to the egg timer ensuring your boiled egg is just right
and you daren’t miss the noise of some bells
no matter how noisy it is
the bells of the bakelite phone?
it’s your reletives on the end of the line – waiting to say hello
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Interruption
#Television #Technology #Nature #Birds #Art #octpowrimo
Digital Telly was never supposed to be like this
with the computer looking after the signal
it was supposed to be clearer and sharper
with up to the minute relayed information
on your big screen TV
They never saw your aerial being used as a perching post…..
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Gadget
#Fowc #Gadget
Great Scott!!!
a technological marvel
designed to solve that particular problem in the
garden, kitchen, study – wherever
exception to the rule – is when the magic tool itself needs repair,
there’s a gadget for that – says the smiling technician.
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Sliced
#Sliced #Glitch
Satellite imagery is wonderful technology
Landing pictures on our telly screens from far far away
Interference from Meteors, Asteroids (or even a Martian or two)
Can make the snap from the satellite look not as
Exact as you would have expected it
Directors playing jigsaw puzzles before putting it on screen
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Dial
#Fowc #Dial
Digit turns the circuit
in a number of turns
as connection is made to a
loved one far away, through invisible waves
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Fearful symmetry II
#writingprompt #fearful symmetry
marvellous movement,
made by the makers,
of a made well micro computer mouse
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Rectify
Salford 3rd September
Reduced to a second relic in the corner
Even the technician suggested it was past its best
Computer’s do have a shelf life – but
To others – all that was needed, was a bit of
Installation and dusting down
Fresh drivers and a spot of cleaner – soon back to its
Youthful side, particularly with a new CD-Rom Drive
The Inkwell 