Real technology
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resonantThere's a wonderfully high-tech copier in this office, but for complicated reasons, the job I'm doing works better if you bypass some of its spiffy automated functions, and instead print one side of the document and then manually load those printed pages into the paper tray to print the other side.
It doesn't like this. It halts over and over to tell me there's a paper jam, but there never is one.
One of these days I want to see the people on sci-fi television deal with this technological reality. "Oh, it says it has a hyperdrive alignment error, but it really doesn't. You just have to open that green panel and count to four and close it again."
It doesn't like this. It halts over and over to tell me there's a paper jam, but there never is one.
One of these days I want to see the people on sci-fi television deal with this technological reality. "Oh, it says it has a hyperdrive alignment error, but it really doesn't. You just have to open that green panel and count to four and close it again."
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Date: 8/3/06 06:41 pm (UTC)*snerk* Oh, heavens, yes. I can't tell you how many printers I've had with similar issues. "Oh, just open it up and close it again and it'll be fine." etc. Silly technology.
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Date: 8/5/06 04:41 am (UTC)We'll see if I finish it this year.(no subject)
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Date: 8/3/06 07:06 pm (UTC)Now I have to go clean up my mascara. Hee.
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Date: 8/5/06 04:59 am (UTC)It could work.
Date: 8/3/06 08:34 pm (UTC)There was an explosion, and all the people Rodney was yelling at ran for cover.
"Rodney?" Elizabeth asked. "You do have a suggestion, right?"
"Yes, yes, of course. We just need to rebuild the entire control substructure, replace all the conduits, and then rewrite the laws of thermodynamics. In the next 10 minutes. No problem."
"We're counting on you, Rodney," Elizabeth said.
There was another, larger, explosion.
"Perhaps?" said Radek, and pushed the power button.
Everything went dark and silent.
Radek pushed the power button again.
Almost immediately, something started beeping cheerfully, everything stopped shaking and exploding, and all the fires went out, too.
"You, you," Rodney spluttered. "You!"
"Yes, me," said Radek. "It was not so complicated."
"I hate you."
Re: It could work.
Date: 8/3/06 10:14 pm (UTC)Re: It could work.
Date: 8/4/06 01:58 am (UTC)Re: It could work.
Date: 8/4/06 01:11 am (UTC)Re: It could work.
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Date: 8/3/06 09:25 pm (UTC)"Alright, here's what I want you to do. On the left hand side of the console is a button marked with a sideways triangle..."
"I've tried that!"
"Please just bear with me, sir. Have you found the button? Good. I want you to press it and hold it down for five seconds."
*almost-audible effect of eye-rolling from other end of comm link*
"Now, if that doesn't work, what we'll do is --"
"Huh. It worked."
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Date: 8/5/06 02:10 am (UTC)"No, higher. Higher. Look where I'm pointing--"
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Date: 8/3/06 09:29 pm (UTC)OMG. That's so true. Kind of like the joke about "What if the Starship Enterprise ran on Windows?" It ends with the blue screen of death. So beautiful.
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Date: 8/4/06 02:16 am (UTC)*g*
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Date: 8/8/06 01:34 am (UTC)In fact, I described this whole thing to the spouse, and he said, "I usually just push buttons randomly until something happens." I said, "I think only women feel they have the right to mess around inside the machine," and he said, "Yeah, I'd be scared to do that."
The men also never put on a new pot of coffee when they drink the last cup, Miko says.
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Date: 8/4/06 08:28 pm (UTC)I know I'm not giving it enough credit but it was actually quite funny.
I found you through Transfigurations. Love it by the way!
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Date: 8/8/06 01:37 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 8/5/06 02:06 am (UTC)The closest thing I've ever seen to that is the part in Hunt for Red October where Jonesy explains why the whatsitbox can't classify the Red October's silent propulsion as an artificial event.
(The thing with your copier sounds like the sort of thing that would make my head explode. I work with high-tech copier/printers all day and frequently beg the IT manager to take them out back and shoot them.)
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Date: 8/7/06 12:22 am (UTC)Last week, on Stargate Atlantis: "PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?"
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