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Re: typewriters of DOOM

2004-01-16T17:44:27+00:00

Yeah, I don’t know what I did to win mine over. Maybe it’s just lulling me into a false sense of security, or maybe it was just a Little Bad and has felt betrayed by its father’s bad parenting—or I could be thinking of Quicksilver and the X-Men. Ah well. Quicksilver that typewriter AIN’T.

typewriters of DOOM

2004-01-16T16:50:45+00:00

I work in the Teacher Education department, and I have learned to understand our mysterious IBM typewriter. However, this week my boss lent me to the Admissions department since they are swamped – and they have a different typewriter down there. I was typing mailing labels when it got stuck and I couldn’t reset the left margin. So I called Helen over and she did exactly what I tried and it worked fine. This has happened at least once a day this week. If I have an archnemisis here, that typewriter is definitely it.

Re: Haiku

2004-01-16T10:00:25+00:00

Mwa ha, hee hee, yes. More relief at my last job, actually, where I very nearly abducted the Epson color in the dead of night to do that very thing.

Re: Haiku

2004-01-16T09:31:11+00:00

I’m glad to hear it’s not quite that bad. I just thought the scene where the three hapless computer criminals beat the crap out of The Bastard Printer From Hell might lend you some vicarious relief. ;o)

Re: Haiku

2004-01-16T08:36:13+00:00

My work is very nice, not at all like that movie (which we own, too!) but having an archvillain spices things up.

Haiku

2004-01-16T06:45:02+00:00

Go to Ryan’s House
Wath the movie Office Space
World will seem nicer