Geek poetry
Could be beat, could be nerdcore, could be rap, not really sure.
Anyway:
Solder sniffing packet switching
bitching 8 bit ROM flashing
pattern matching gotta catch 'em all -
Fashioned on the streets,
at swap meets
and street vendors,
circuit benders, tinkers, menders,
pedal powered juice blenders.
FSK and FHSS,
Junked cellphones and corporate excess,
Liberated pirate hexes -
Generation X expects it.
Y? if you have to ask
just catch another Z and pass
the baton to the masses
and sit back on your well fed ass as
All the trash
that you splash
out your cash on
then dispose of
is the cause of
nightly raids
on your bins
and your sins of excess
feed us all the tools to fix this
cheap
skate
bodge
hack
kludge
slap
dash
string and gaff
tinfoil
inkjet
Prototype it yet?
Spray
can
tennas and
disposable repeaters.
Dime a dozen sensor motes
and sensor mote defeaters.
Redistribute
reconfigure
redeploy
and rejigger.
The street'll find its own use
For everything you cut loose.
Garbage to some is
a tool to those who have none.
Scrounged up and hacked up;
the landfill's our backup.
Chuck it out and we will take it
ream it out, bend it and make it
Better.
Crack DMCA restrictions
And all those other legal fictions
DRM
DMA
No copyright on DNA -
Direct from memory anyway.
Accessed at the nerve core
Hacked in by the urban poor
With fired guns to solder,
an engineer a little older -
bolder than he ever told ya
before you showed him the door
with last year's spec folder.
Cable ties and spirit gum
A cardboard box
a cable drum
Solar panel
Ceiling fan
Alternator
Mike stand
Car speakers
Piezo tweeters
A case to keep it all neat
A dumpster in Akihabara
Haggling in Pantip Plaza
Cupertino yard sales
Value Village never fails
Lead acid metal hydride
aftermarket in-wheel hybrid
Homebrewed biodiesel -
You think that none of this is feasible?
Your warranty is null and void.
Security has been destroyed,
social or otherwise.
Peak oil is no surprise,
And the man behind the curtain
doesn't give two shits if you are hurting
So go down with the sinking ship or
make like us rats and split
your losses;
Take a profit
on the downside,
the long slide
long tail -
Don't pay retail.
Anyway:
Solder sniffing packet switching
bitching 8 bit ROM flashing
pattern matching gotta catch 'em all -
Fashioned on the streets,
at swap meets
and street vendors,
circuit benders, tinkers, menders,
pedal powered juice blenders.
FSK and FHSS,
Junked cellphones and corporate excess,
Liberated pirate hexes -
Generation X expects it.
Y? if you have to ask
just catch another Z and pass
the baton to the masses
and sit back on your well fed ass as
All the trash
that you splash
out your cash on
then dispose of
is the cause of
nightly raids
on your bins
and your sins of excess
feed us all the tools to fix this
cheap
skate
bodge
hack
kludge
slap
dash
string and gaff
tinfoil
inkjet
Prototype it yet?
Spray
can
tennas and
disposable repeaters.
Dime a dozen sensor motes
and sensor mote defeaters.
Redistribute
reconfigure
redeploy
and rejigger.
The street'll find its own use
For everything you cut loose.
Garbage to some is
a tool to those who have none.
Scrounged up and hacked up;
the landfill's our backup.
Chuck it out and we will take it
ream it out, bend it and make it
Better.
Crack DMCA restrictions
And all those other legal fictions
DRM
DMA
No copyright on DNA -
Direct from memory anyway.
Accessed at the nerve core
Hacked in by the urban poor
With fired guns to solder,
an engineer a little older -
bolder than he ever told ya
before you showed him the door
with last year's spec folder.
Cable ties and spirit gum
A cardboard box
a cable drum
Solar panel
Ceiling fan
Alternator
Mike stand
Car speakers
Piezo tweeters
A case to keep it all neat
A dumpster in Akihabara
Haggling in Pantip Plaza
Cupertino yard sales
Value Village never fails
Lead acid metal hydride
aftermarket in-wheel hybrid
Homebrewed biodiesel -
You think that none of this is feasible?
Your warranty is null and void.
Security has been destroyed,
social or otherwise.
Peak oil is no surprise,
And the man behind the curtain
doesn't give two shits if you are hurting
So go down with the sinking ship or
make like us rats and split
your losses;
Take a profit
on the downside,
the long slide
long tail -
Don't pay retail.