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Subject:RE: Just like Donald Trump says... From:Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- wellsfargo -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:12:59 -0800
Dan asks:
>
> ... We do have a song about technical writing though, named,
> "Ballad of the Tech Writer 1.0 Blues,
> Lament, and Life-and-Death-Cycle Rag"...
Lyrics, please?
>>
How can I answer no and yet not advertise our forthcoming CD? :-) Please
note the following is meant to be informative and continue adding something
to discussion of technical writing by outlining the song (which may or may
not follow the cycle of project-related work you may have done), but I know
I'm somewhat treading the line of the list rules and I am trying to be
careful!
I will be working out advertising legally with Lisa when we release the CD
(slated for Feb 2005, thus affectively missing gift giving for your Twer
friends, but hey, we both work for a living, that's our excuse.)
To give you a taste of the type of song it is, it does have a life cycle to
it:
Verse 1 - happy bouncing folky (project begins, techwriter happy)
Verse 2 - Bluesy (project bogs down, techwriter unhappy)
Verses 3 & 4 - Thrash (project in major trouble, many compromises on
quality, techwriter crazy and frantic)
Verse 5 - Spoken word over dramatic lead guitar (techwriter muses on lot in
life, obtains some resolution)
Verse 6 - Happy bouncy folkie but with discordant ending (techwriter
finishes project successfully, but then... It all starts again...)
We also wrote a crazier song called "Psycho Cube Slave" --- y'all know who
you are..... :-)
We also write other songs about other crazy things that are not technical
writing related.
Anyone who wants more information may contact me off list.
Rosie
Rose A. Wilcox
Procedure Writer, Test Script Writer
Business Analyst
rose -dot- wilcox -at- wellsfargo -dot- com
RoseAWilcox -at- msn -dot- com
480-394-6047 (desk)
480-580-0530 (cell)
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