News Limerick: Utah Bars - November 14, 2020

It’s time for the bars to be closing
Despite all your preening and posing
To stop virus spread
Head home to your bed
At 10 PM? I’m usually dozing

Utah bars turn off the taps at 10, per new state health order

Working from Home: In Iambic Pentameter

If you should fail to find me here today

I hope you will not think I can’t be reached
Though circumstances make me stay away
My presence in the ether’s not decreased

I’m bringing all I need to work from home
You’ll find me via Slack and email too
And if you find you’re feeling quite alone
In Hangouts I can smile back at you

If you should wish to see where I will be
Please check my calendar from day to day
I’ll keep it up to date so you can see
Just whether I am here or I’m away

I thank you for you patience in this time
I hope that you’ve enjoyed my verse and rhyme

News Limerick : March 7, 2019

It's Blockbuster's final location
Some visit it on their vacation
Though once quite routine
It's found a new sheen
With merchandise, hats, and libations

The World’s Last Blockbuster Has No Plans to Close

News Limerick: February 15, 2019

Since Amazon found its new site
Some locals declared "it's not right!
With tax breaks galore
We'll have to pay more!
So tell them to go fly a kite"

Amazon’s Retreat on New York City Headquarters Followed Unexpected Backlash

News Limerick 6/18/2013

We learn that they've rigged all the rates
To help the bank through dire straits
The banks paid a fine
For crossing the line
And now time in prison awaits

Ex-trader charged with Libor rigging in U.K.

News Limerick 5/22/2013

The tax that they pay is so small
It seems like it's not there at all
Reforming the law
In all of its flaws
Would drive their accountants up walls

How Apple scores its lower tax bill

News Limerick 5/17/2013

Conditions have gotten much better
Now Foxconn's obeying the letter
But overtime woes?
That's just how it goes
It keeps them from being a debtor

Foxconn says needs more time to further cut workers' overtime

News Limerick 5/9/2013

With the safety of workers in doubt
It is time Bangladesh figures out
Though the battle's uphill
They must now find the will
Since it lives that we're talking about

Bangladesh Plant Fire Kills 8 as Rana Plaza Death Toll Hits 921

News Limerick 4/11/2013

They usually get the notes late
But this time did not have to wait
Since someone hit send
When minutes were penned
Just think how they set up the rate

Fed sent minutes early to staffers, trade groups

News Limerick 3/19/2013

The Cypriots may soon tax wealth
Restoring economy's health
Investors may balk
At all of this talk
And store up their earnings in stealth

Euro zone urges Cyprus to spare smaller savers from bank levy

News Limerick 3/12/2013

"We're sorry we snooped in you net
And, yes, we've done things we regret.
We've turned all that off,
Is that good enough?"
Said Google, which hasn't changed yet.

Google cuts $7-million settlement with states over Street View

News Limerick 3/1/2013

Time Warner knows just what you need
It isn't a blazing fast speed
They'll leave that to Google
Because they're so frugal
Which means that it comes down to greed

Time Warner exec says you don't want gigabit internet

News Limerirk 2/26/2013

Stop downloading movies and tunes!
The internet's watched by tycoons
They'll cut your connection
You've little protection
Then how will you learn cats can croon?

Op-Ed: Six-strike plan imposed by Internet Service Providers

News Limerick 2/7/2013

The days to get mail were once six
But cost made them pick one to nix
Through rain, sleet, or snow
They make the mail go
But Saturdays? That we can't fix

USPS to cut regular mail service to 5 days a week

News Limerick 2/4/2013

The US and Mexico grow them
Tomatoes on farms where we hoe them
A deal has been reached
The stalemate now breached
If trade war had come they would throw them

United States and Mexico Reach Tomato Deal, Averting a Trade War

News Limerick 1/31/2013

For BlackBerry, this is the time
Shed "Research in Motion" as grime
But what's in a name?
Will all stay the same?
The emp'rors new clothes are sublime

Research in Motion launches BlackBerry 10, changes corporate name

News Limerick 1/24/2013

The U-Verse's upgrade was faulty
So service has lately been paltry
The users affected
Feel so disconnected
Perhaps there's some tech who lacked coffee

AT&T's U-verse blacks out for days in several U.S. states

News Limerick 1/18/2013

There once was a hacker named Bob
Who knew what to do with his job
He looked overseas
And FedExed his keys
Then sat on his bum like a blob

U.S. programmer outsources own job to China, surfs cat videos

News Limerick 1/9/2013

The chutzpah is simply astounding
With "give us more money!" resounding
So will AIG
Come sue you and me?
If so they deserve a good pounding

AIG considers joining lawsuit against U.S. over bailouts

News Limerick 1/8/2013

The lake water used to be fresh
Now fish in it all seem to thresh
Are tar sands to blame
For toxins that came?
These scientists' answer is "yesh"

Oil sands' toxins 'accumulate in freshwater ecosystems'