'Tis the Season

[Our own Ron Amok, inspired by Barney Walker's latest (Cartoon: LED by the Nose) dashed off the first doggerel ditty below in a comment to Barney's cartoon. I thought this newly revealed talent deserved wider notice. Links added to the named community members. Ron penned the second parody for this publication. — ed.]

Randolph the LED-nosed Blogger

You know Amok, Ed, and McCarthy,

Eafpres, and the Lenks,

Karl, Barney and Bill, and

Alfred, Robin, and Steve

But do you recall

The most famous blogger of all?

Randolph, the LED-nosed blogger

had a 680nm nose

and if you ever saw it

you'd say it had a 1.8eV bandgap.

All of the other bloggers

used to laugh and call him nerd

They never let poor Randolph

Comment with a single word.

Then one bloggy Christmas eve

Dawson came to say:

"Randolph with your intellect so bright,

won't you write a blog for me tonight?"

Then, even semiman loved him

as the bloggers shouted out with glee,

Randolph the LED-nosed blogger,

You keep blogging on ALL LED!

Blue Christmas

I'll have a blue Christmas without YAG

It'll be so blue just thinking about YAG

Mixing red, green, and blue for RGB

Won't give us the same CCT, if YAG's not put onto my LED

And when rendered-blue snowflakes start falling

That's when those blue LED salesmen'll stop calling

You'll be doing alright, with 6000K of daylight

But I'll have a blue, blue Christmas

You'll be doing alright, with your Christmas of white

But I'll have a blue, 450nm Christmas