Missing Friday haiku (Was Poets as tech writers and programmers)

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

Ah, this brings to mind the famous Friday haiku (on the old Quark list,
I think). A creative bunch they were. On a recent post elsewhere,
someone asked if Friday haiku were defunct. Not so, came the reply. I
like this one:

Haiku Friday will 
Never die for what are we? 
Disconnected art

Ah, well, it's not Friday yet. So carry on.

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Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:51 PM
To: Jessica Weissman; Stuart Burnfield; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: poets as tech writers and programmers

OK. So I'll time my typing to the rhythm of haikus then wait for my
writing to improve :-\

Anyway, let's hope that after nearly ten years in the trenches glib libs
haven't become "too entrenched in both the subject matter and in the old
formats". One thing's sure though, even flower children grow up. 

Lisa H.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jessica Weissman

http://www.weberassoc.com/index.html if you want to see where they have
evolved.  Unless there are TWO Glenn Webers, of course.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Burnfield

There was a lively thread on a similar topic back in December 1997.
There had been an article in the Washington Post about a TW shop that
made a point of hiring young, liberal arts grads (including
poets) to fix the perceived failings of jaded old specialists:

"Rather than technical writers, who Weber said were too entrenched in
both the subject matter and in the old formats, the firm turned to
liberal arts graduates.

Peter Beaupre, 21, with a bachelor's degree in classical studies from
Duke University, impressed Weber in his job interview by describing how
he had set part of the "Iliad," in ancient Greek, to an original piece
of music written in the style of German composer Robert Schumann. "
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