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September 23, 2009

Ol’ Bytowne

 – to the tune of “Allentown”

Well, we’re living here in ol’ Bytowne
And they’re closing all the campuses down.
Out at headquarters we’re killing time
Fixing the bugs
in our designs.

Well, we transformed how the world shares ideas:
Talk for hours before saying see-ya’s
Then with photons it became so cheap
To use Internet
For practically free

And we’re living here in ol’ Bytowne.
But the notices were handed out —
And today will be our final day

Well, we’ve waited here in ol’ Bytowne
For the restructuring to turn us around
For the promises that were conceived
If we worked hard
If we believed

So the patent awards hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all.
No, they never taught us how to vet
Cashflow forecasts,
Unsecured debt

And we’re waiting here in ol’ Bytowne.
But they’ve brought our stock price down to the ground
And the top execs crawled away

Every new hire had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their mentor got.
But something happened on the way to that place:
They threw a C-C-A-A file in our face

Well, I’m living here in ol’ Bytowne
And it’s hard to keep a programmer down
But I won’t be writing code today

And today will be our final day
And we’re living here in ol’ Bytowne.

Posted by Isaac at September 23, 2009 12:50 AM