Pinto Poetry To liven up the staid and often humorless industrial automation business atmosphere, I've tried my hand at poetic satire. Some of my stuff has been published in industry journals, with good feedback. The continuous confusion in the fieldbus arena is a prime candidate for my metaphorical musings. My Bill Gates poems have been published in US and international magazines and they too are here for your amusement. And a few others which I hope you'll enjoy....

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Occupy Wall Street	Poem: Occupy Wall Street This poem was written on October 15, 2011 while the "Occupy Wall Street" movement was just about a month old, and still growing. Many are confused with the message. This poem may help to explain. I'll appreciate your comments and suggestions as I prepare a YouTube video. Feel free to copy and/or publish.
Bush Lied	Poem: The Iraq War - 5-year anniversary - Bush Lied This poem was written for the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, 19 March 2008. It has been published in newspapers and on websites worldwide. Feel free to copy and/or publish.
Wireless Quadrille	Pinto Poem: The Industrial Wireless Quadrille Wireless is a new "inflection point" in Industrial Automation, expected to generate growth for the leaders. So, the "Wireless Wars" are generating wild and wacky posturing and dancing around - similar to the "Fieldbus Wars" which started almost 2 decades ago. Poetry is perhaps the only crisp, lucid way of describing the situation. Published as part of JimPinto.com eNews # 238 - 25 September 2007.
Ballad of GW Bush	Poem: The ballad of GW Bush I've been having discussions with many friends who are Bush proponents, with no effect. They seem to dodge all my sincere questions, or answer with faith-based responses. So, I wrote this poem for them, with which I hope you'll connect. It's written with the lilt of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven". First published - August 2004.
The Aussie Fieldbus	The Aussie Fieldbus This poem was written on April 28, 2003 for my friend Dick Morley, who was speaking at the INDCOMM Conference in Melbourne, Australia, April 30 & May 1, 2003. It describes the wonderful, new Aussiebus, which connected to just about every other network in the world. Except....
Angel Angles	Poem : Angel Angles There are about 4,000 "angel" investors in the US - not venture-capitalists, but private individuals who invest seed capital in startup companies. Who are these "angels"? You might enjoy the poem I wrote for the UCSD CONNECT newsletter, published May 14, 2002.
The Perfect Funding	Poem: The Perfect Funding An entrepreneur finds funding for his high-tech startup, beyond his wildest expectations. Poem written in the lilt of Poe's The Raven The original version of this poem was published in the San Diego magazine The T Sector, January 2002
Now I'm 64	Happy birthday ! Now I'm sixty-four! I've always been a Beatles fan! Their song When I'm sixty-four has always been one of my favorites. I savored the idea that, if I was lucky enough to last till the new century, I'd eventually get to be 64. Well, I arrived at my sixty-fourth birthday on December 6, 2001. To celebrate, I wrote this little ditty - which you can sing to the tune of the Beatles song. Try it!
My Christmas eMail	My Christmas eMail This poem was first written on Christmas Eve, 1975 - really! It has been published in several webzines and sent via email countless times - some of my friends actually email it to me, not realizing that I wrote it... This is the Christmas 2000 version, written for JimPinto.com visitors.
Jack Grenard	Tribute to Jack Grenard Jack Grenard is the founder of PLC User magazine and Industrial Controls Intelligence. Jack "retired" in Dec. 2000 - to focus on sailing on his sailboat in San Diego. The Dec. issue of his old newsletter included a column written by several of his friends and associates. It included this poem, as a tribute to my friend, Jack Grenard. First published in : Industrial Controls Intelligence & Plant Systems Report, Decemeber 2000
IEC Fieldbus Vote	The 8-Part Fieldbus Voting Fiasco In early January 2000, the IEC "unofficially" voted in favor of an 8-part Fieldbus standard. The ISA webpages reported the news in businesslike prose. I felt that this somewhat comical paradox could only be described with poetry.
y2k Poem	The y2k Raven Written on December 31, 1999, as we were all awaiting the arrival of January 1, 2000. This poem is written using the style of Poe's The Raven - which has a lilt which is similar to some of my other poems. The y2k bug really bites.... Or, does it?
Microsoft Mugging	The Legal Mugging of Microsoft This topical poem was written right after the big news (5 Nov. '99) that a judge had ruled that Microsoft was a monopoly. The world now waits to see what the legal "penalties" will be.
WIN/SP-50	Microsoft Takes Over Fieldbus A poem, written at the ISA/98 Expo, about Microsoft taking over Fieldbus SP-50 to make it the de-facto standard. First published in CONTROL, November '98
Bill Gates & the devil	You are Rich Brother William - UPSIDE, Feb. '98 A satirical poem - about Bill Gates negotiating with the devil. Whew! I got a lottt of response on this one....
The Sequel Bill & God	Saint Bill - UPSIDE, April '98 The sequel to the first poem - the one about Bill Gates and the devil. A repentent Bill Gates appeals to the Almighty!
Fieldbus Quadrille	The Fieldbus Quadrille A poem in the Alice in Wonderland metaphor, which describes the current paradoxical situation relating to Fieldbus in the industrial automation business.
Net du Jour	Fieldbus duJour Another poem, about a little guy going to ISA to look for Fieldbus networks and finding a plethora of choices and "open" vendor-associations.
Fieldbus Raven	The Fieldbus Raven A poem, borrowing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven theme, about actually finding a completed SP-50 Fieldbus at ISA.
Open SaysaMe	Open Saysa Me - Closed Saysa You A whimsical view of the confusing claims regarding "Open" or "Closed" fieldbuses by various factions within the industrial automation markets.
Famous Fieldbus Fiasco	The Famous Fieldbus Fiasco - the first (1992) of the Fieldbus poems, written to describe the frustration of the industry with the continuing committee delays of SP-50 Fieldbus, and the introduction (at ISA in Houston, Texas) of a new ISP pseudo-standard which was subsequently, and predictably, abandoned.
Everyone Gobbled-up	Where have all the Players Gone? My very first poem written for and about the industrial automation business. First published in July '91, after Siemens had bought Texas Instruments' PLC business and Schneider had bought Square-D. The warm response to this first poem prompted the Fieldbus Fiasco and others.
The Industrial Automation Quadrille	The Industrial Automation Quadrille. This poem written when the dollar was weak against most foreign currencies and it seemed that most US companies were acquisition targets. It was published in the magazine CONTROL along with my article : The Changing Face of Competition in January 1991.
PC-Wocky	PC-Wocky the parody of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky. This poem was written at the time when the open-architecture of the IBM PC and MS-DOS had become the standards and the PC-clones were running amok! IBM was trying to wrest back control through introduction of their new MCA-bus and OS/2 software. First published in Computer Systems News, June '89.
Father Big Blue	Father Big Blue - parody of Lewis Carroll's Father William. This poem was written at the time when the open-architecture of the IBM PC and MS-DOS had become the standards and the PC-clones were running amok! IBM was trying to wrest back control through introduction of their new MCA-bus and OS/2 software. First published in Computer Systems News, February 6, '89.

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