acquisition doggerel

[rone]

Oh, woe is me, oh, woe is i
Corp'rat massa jus' got bought by Adobe
The Macro-Tittie just ran dry
I be weepin' like Niobe
I curse, i scream, i spit and cry,
Should i chop my hair off or use a Flowbee?
I feel like i might want do die,
Should i drink hemlock or drink a Sobe?
Oh Ado-be, oh Ado-bay,
I hope i can work in San Jose!

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[internebbish.livejournal.com]

Should i drink hemlock or drink a Sobe?
Oh Ado-be, oh Ado-bay,

Worthy of Anne Sexton.

I hope i can work in San Jose!
Alas if you route cisco,
They'll make you stay in San Francisco

I wonder if they can afford to give up all the land sitting under those buildings at Townsend. Methinks not.

[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

Give it up? No.

Relocate all the employees there to somewhere cheep and lease out the office space to other companies at ludicrous rates? Sure!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

We just got a new café in the recently remodeled building, so i'm sure we're not going to give that up without a fight. Plus we just relocated everyone to the new building. I guess this'll be the test to find out just what Adobe is like...

[erikagillian.livejournal.com]

Slow to load, in my experience.

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

Do you get a big electric cat as the new office pet?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

OK, i give up... i don't get the reference.

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

The Adobe Photoshop mascot is the Big Electric Cat; it's the graphic used for the gang screen in several versions. I'll have to try and dig up a screenshot, but there's an odd cut-out rendition on this page (http://www.designbyfire.com/000069.html).

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

Actually, had I bothered reading the answers to that competition, Big Electric Cat was the code name for Photoshop 4, hence the mascot. Meh. Close enough.

Dibs on your spare copy of Photoshop for Macs.

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

Remember your friends and stuff.

[ptomblin-lj.livejournal.com]

"Someplace cheep" == "Mumbai".

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Not Mumbai, but we do have a new office in Bangalore.

[dwell.livejournal.com]

the one thing that always stays the same is change.

bt

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

That's not always true... sometimes, i spend my change.

[dwell.livejournal.com]

*groan*

so... you don't look forward to the merger or do you? that last line threw me off.

bt

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I guess that's my silver lining. I have no expectations or visions regarding the merger, other than knowing that integration is going to be a royal pain in the ass.

poeta!

[(Anonymous)]

Dicen que: de músico poeta y loco, todos tenemos un poco!
Estoy contigo "hasta las últimas consecuencias" (como dicen los charlatanes politiqueros, por acá).
Wish the best for you, always. Keep trying and you will find something very good in Sanjosé. Love you