More Hacker Attacks!
 

OH. MY. GOD.

Captain Alex is posting a poem in a non-poem thread.

Can I please spank you?

Thank you for protecting us from the vicious hackers, Capt'n! But I still think I need to spank you!

(hee hee heee!!!!!!!!!!)

Cally

Alex,

I wondered what was going on;
was someone playing silly tricks?
The site was well and truly gone!
How would I get my daily fix
of Metrical, of D & A,
all that poetic bric-a-brac?
I’m glad to hear you won the day
and that Eratosphere is back.

P.S.
It seems I broke a rule of iron!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxYours impenitently,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxBrian

Hehehe Cally! You spake of spanking ... & you're the right one for it! ;)

And I declare this thread, an Eratosphere-stress-relieving-post-away-your-heart-lightening-poems thread! ... and I see that Brian has already jumped in!

Cheers,
...Alex

Thus spaketh the duly spanked King!

xoxox

Wake today, and quake with fear:
Get my coffee, get no ‘sphere
Yay for A who’s cyber-clear:
Get the hack outta here!

just because this is an opportunity not to be missed
 

Slackery quackers! Im-
pertinent hackers had
bunged up the server with
code-slinging pranks.

Alex has bested them
technolo-magic'ly,
and for this blessing, we
proffer our thanks.

Oh, Maryann, that is ELEGANT.

Please do spackle the cracks
through which hackers will steal.
Mr. Pepple, show mettle
and tighten the keel.

Our poems need help.
But overtly, I feel.
Leaky form piques fresh mischief.
Imagine the squeal

with temptation so keen:
That the thief took the wheel.

Alex, I feel you will live to regret this Armistice Day.

Good double-dactyling, Maryann! And Brian, Seree and Norman, yours are inventive and fun too!

I'm surprised there weren't more ... remember, as they say in those barking ads, this limited-time offer ... it may expire at any time! :)

Cheers,
...Alex

Oh there's more alright. Not all of us are metronome naturals though. Some of us free-verse fluzies have to struggle to squeak out iambic, as an ode to your valour. (Lord help me, itsa probly not gonna be pretty.)

So glad you are so quick to hop on the steed and handy w/ that cyber-lance to fend for us all, Alex.


Jeanne
*curtsies*

Hacker attacks? Why is Marilyn Hacker is attacking the Eratosphere?

:)

Cyber-splat - A Cautionary Tale
 

The pirate thugs from cyberspace
thought they'd get in Alex' face,
but Alex thrust his mighty lance ~
what fools ~ they never stood a chance.

Spherical-clerical,
down with the hackers! Let’s
send them a virus; a
good dose of strep’ll

put paid to their insolence
streptococcalically -
failing all else, we can
send Alex Pepple.

Graffiti

Pray why are the Spherians haughty
and deign not to rhyme in this space?
I think it's not fun unless naughty,
to write legal would be to lose face. :)

Pick a peck of Mr. Pepple?
Eat a ton of crow.
Better odds at out-Lenore-ing
Edgar Allan Poe.

Okay, you don't enjoy her poems,
But people, why attack her?
A lot of folks with excellent taste
Are fans of Marilyn Hacker.

Have they nothing better to do?
 

Why do they try to destroy this great sphere
when so many people enjoy being here?

Hang 'em, those hackers. Yes, string 'em up high.
Show 'em no mercy -- they all have to die.

And as the noose tightens, just before death,
get 'em to tell us, with their final breath,
the thing we're all "dying" to know, which is... WHY???? :confused:

You're wondering why hackers never rest,
And what is our devilish plan?
It’s rather like climbing Mount Everest -
We do it, my dear, ’cause we can.

I blame the Chinese government.
I am not quite sure how
They did it, but I'm sure it has
To do with Chairman Mao,

The celebrated poet whom
The Chinese most revere.
"These guys write better verse than Mao!
Let's kill Eratosphere!"

This is the NSA.
Our sniffers sussed your tropes.
Reports were that your meter
lay petered on the ropes.

Have you considered terror,
some alternate career?
Our screens are flashing 'error'.
Your rhymes elicit fear.

We'll need to check you keyboard
for nihilistic slant
and question your good judgment
until your tropes recant.

Script kiddie, lonely boy
with nothing better to do--
shunned poet's lazy ploy
real hackers would eschew.

The world-famous hacker-guy rode in
And said, "I will now put the code in
To take down the Sphere!"
But there's no cause to fear
Because Alex knows more than Ed Snowden.

Mao's Little Red Book
hardly warrants a look.
Mr. Slater's a traitor
to where we must look.

Late Capital's kids
are the culprits du jour.
Though Marx was a hoot
in Duck Soup, to be sure.


(Who's in charge of the Internet kill switch today?)

My feet shoot themselves in the feet rather well.
My sublime's like a bat out of minor league hell.
I'm quite hacker enough to the lines that I pen
without taking the flak from some hacker, aged 10.

At the risk of forgoing an honorable mention,
I petition the Pepple for thread intervention.

The Deeper End is eyeing
a Hacker's Almanac
as antidote and analog
for digitized attack.

The challenge is conveyance
By pony, land or sea?
How might one crit without the bits
that flit all crits for free?

In truth, the hacker's lacking
at paper-led attacking.
Without the ether's backing
all bytes take a shellacking

The perfect bound might yet rebound,
the stitch get final say
An analog? Try pen and inking
fricking Groundhog Day.

Norman said:
I'm starting to understand the import of that message.

(:o Just kiddding, Norm. It may never happen again in our lifetime.)

I did say Armistice Day didn't I? I meant Armistice Week. Alex is in the unique position of curtailing his crits at any moment. It's a testament to raw character that his trigger finger is stuck. Though I don't know what this will do to my vigorous campaign for a third star.

Thanks for that final lightening flurry, Norman, Cally & all.

And if you didn't jump on the offer yet, too late ... thread locked! Hope those persistent hackers won't give us reason to ever think of a redo.

Cheers,
...Alex