Soronlin

By far the most traffic coming to this part of the site is looking for information on power supplies for the Raspberry Pi. I thought it was about time I actually said something about them.

CAUTION: adult material

The world in general likes to believe that the insular computer boffin does not know the meaning of love-making. Of course this is not true. Most IT specialists have healthy and rewarding sex lives - often with other humans - which keep them bright and smiling as they tap away at the keyboard and chirpily browse their manager's Netscape cache. And the true IT professional - of course - always behaves faithfully to his chosen development environment - even in the bedroom….

This song is in honour of the hard work that the Raspberry Pi Foundation has put in in bringing the Raspberry Pi to market, and especially for Liz, who fielded idiot questions with patience beyond the call of duty.

Thanks to dukla2000 for the first five lines.

Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
Silently closing our bedroom doors
Trusting the note that we hoped would say more
We go downstairs to the PC
Clutching our Barclaycards
Frantically hitting the F5 key
Telling the shop that it"s me

Liz… (we gave her absolute hell)
Is sleeping (first time in 48 hours)
At last (automated servers unsupervised)
She's sleeping at last after working so hard for so many days (well done)

Father snores as his wife logs into the RaspPi shop
Clicks on the Raspberry that's just appeared
Sitting alone at the PC screen
She breaks down and cries to her husband
"Dad, all the stock is gone
"Why would they treat us so thoughtlessly?
"How could they do this to me?"

Liz… (we drove her right up the wall)
Is sleeping (dreaming of raspberry pie)
At last (Raspberry shop can run out of stock by itself)
She's sleeping at last after working so hard for so many days (well done)

Friday morning, at nine o'clock
Liz is back at her desk
Posting the blog that they're waiting for
Another 10k in two weeks

She (we knew she would come up trumps)
Is having (we thought we'd be waiting for months)
Fun (fun is one thing money can"t buy)

Computer is here that was just an idea for so many years…
Sh'e sleeping tight… well done.

In honour of the Raspberry Pi, I have rewritten an old program I first wrote over thirty years ago on a time-shared computer my school shared with every other school in Birmingham, using a 110 baud teletype.

Here's another idea for a Raspberry Pi case: two scraps of perspex and a handful of nylon spacers