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It's going around.This is me not dealing with stress well. I fucked about for nearly four or five hours after work trying to do the right thing and get report card shit done. Yay me. Now its four in the morning and I'm high as a kite. Fuck.
Let the world bear witness! My wife is a terrible human being who uses the last of the milk and doesn't replace it!
Ok people I know this is probably the biggest secret in the world but you know that switch that turns on the lights. You can use it to turn them off as well!!!!! Try it!
Ok people I know this is probably the biggest secret in the world but you know that switch that turns on the lights. You can use it to turn them off as well!!!!! Try it!
One of my kids is 15. They used to always leave lights on until a few months ago. Now, they're turning them off every time they go through a room. I leave the room for 20 seconds and return to the lights out. They don't see me sitting some place and turn the lights off on me. They should be old enough to use the switches at a reasonable rate.
I passed the refresher course on safety rules for use of the EPT (Electrische PalletTruck) this afternoon.
That's one of these, no idea what they are called in English:
I think they're called electric pallet jacksI passed the refresher course on safety rules for use of the EPT (Electrische PalletTruck) this afternoon.
That's one of these, no idea what they are called in English:
Nah, it's not a fork-lift. You need an actual fork-lift driver's license for those. Any idiot can ride/drive one of these EPTs. All it takes is a little practice. But we're supposed to adhere to the safety rules, hence the periodic course/exam. It's extremely easy. They only do it for the insurance. But this was the first time I made exactly zero mistakes, though.Looks like a fork-lift to me.
You can tell me anything.I think they're called electric pallet jacks
This is a forklift:
I think this is a reference I am missing.I doubt I'd be able to reist the urge to jump in and yell "Get away from her, you bitch!"
I think this is a reference I am missing.
Aliens. The second Alien movie. Ripley in a robotic loader takes on the Alien Queen going after the little girl.I think this is a reference I am missing.
Hint: TristramEvans looks a lot like Sigourney Weaver.I think this is a reference I am missing.
I think this is a reference I am missing.
Good for you, that would be a deal breaker for me as well.Luckily is only had it a few months ago I took it and the spare inks I had back to the shop and got a refund. Would never buy Epson again.
I get it now, but I don't think fork-lifts are all that similar to those robotic loaders, hence I didn't get it at first.Aliens. The second Alien movie. Ripley in a robotic loader takes on the Alien Queen going after the little girl.
Ripley's exoskeleton is a forklift after centuries of evolution, kinda like comparing an assault rifle to an arquebus.I get it now, but I don't think fork-lifts are all that similar to those robotic loaders, hence I didn't get it at first.
Ripley's exoskeleton is a forklift after centuries of evolution, kinda like comparing an assault rifle to an arquebus.
My first laser printer was a Post Script printer (having played with Apple Laserwriters in grad school and playing with Post Script some. The problem with Texas Instruments MicroLaser that I got was the drum was a separate FRU from the toner and it was expensive. My drum started having problems and I was able to coax it along, but it required constant cleaning. Eventually I think the problem was that the printer wasn't supported by Windows XP. It was nice with the large paper capacity, but it just wasn't working out. My flatbed scanner had also given up the ghost. So we invested in the Canon MF 4100 and it's been serving us well, though for a time, my Windows 8.1 laptop didn't like it so I actually had to print via my wife's laptop. But now it seems happy on my Windows 10 laptop. Since we moved, I haven't used the fax capability (no phone line in my office) but the scanner and photocopier aspects are nice. Plus it does 2-sided printing.I've been eyeballing a Xerox C7020 MFP for a little while as you can get Postscript for it and it does A3 on both the printer and the scanner. Toner costs are fairly cheap per-page by colour printer standards. However it's very expensive, north of £1,500 and about another £300 for the Postscript ROM. I've got a B&W A3 laser and an A4 colour MFP that I'm using at the moment so the C7020 is a nice-to-have that I'll treat myself to if my current gig lasts as far as the end of the year.
Even though I'd have to go through a lot of pages to make back the difference in cost between that and an A3 inkjet it will be a lot more tolerant of being left idle for a few weeks. It will also take up less space than the two printers I have at the moment. Postscript is also a useful feature if I was to go to using someting in the TeX family for composition as a lot of the graphics capabilities like PSTricks in TeX are dependent on it.
This year marks my 30th anniversary as a Postscript user. In 1991 I got hold of a book called Build Yourself a Postscript Laser Printer and Save a Bundle. It explained how to get an old HP laserjet series 1 (based on the 1st gen Canon CX engine) and fit a motherboard from an Apple Laserwriter to it.
As the going rate for anything with Postscript was about 4,000 pesos at the time and the bill of materials for my printer came to about $1,300 I feel I did, indeed save a bundle. It worked fairly well, although it only had enough memory to load two or three fonts at a time, so one tended to mostly use the built-in fonts in conjunction with maybe one or two for display type. It was a bit of a Heath-Robinson contraption, though - the motherboard was mounted upside-down on the case lid and the spacers tended to fall off, so it wound up being held in place with string. Nonetheless, it actually worked and did sterling service for several years until I went to university and had access to modern laser printers there.
It had a serial port so you could connect to it with a terminal emulator programme and work on an interactive Postscript prompt. You can still do this with most networked Postscript printers by telneting to it on port 9000 or 9100.
11x17 is an underappreciated paper size.My first laser printer was a Post Script printer (having played with Apple Laserwriters in grad school and playing with Post Script some. The problem with Texas Instruments MicroLaser that I got was the drum was a separate FRU from the toner and it was expensive. My drum started having problems and I was able to coax it along, but it required constant cleaning. Eventually I think the problem was that the printer wasn't supported by Windows XP. It was nice with the large paper capacity, but it just wasn't working out. My flatbed scanner had also given up the ghost. So we invested in the Canon MF 4100 and it's been serving us well, though for a time, my Windows 8.1 laptop didn't like it so I actually had to print via my wife's laptop. But now it seems happy on my Windows 10 laptop. Since we moved, I haven't used the fax capability (no phone line in my office) but the scanner and photocopier aspects are nice. Plus it does 2-sided printing.
The biggest thing I miss from work is 11x17 printing... I used to make 4 page character sheets and print them on 11x17 and then fold them in half. Instant character folder and very roomy character sheet.
This is the main reason I'm considering the Xerox is for A3 but colour A3 lasers are hellish expensive. Off and on I've considered a refurbished LJ5550 or similar, which can be had for a few hundred quid off ebay, but a set of toner cartridges is something like £500 and the colour ones don't last anywhere near as long as an old-school B&W laser. An A4 MFP is much, much cheaper.The biggest thing I miss from work is 11x17 printing... I used to make 4 page character sheets and print them on 11x17 and then fold them in half. Instant character folder and very roomy character sheet.
Praying for divine intervention.I don't usually talk much about my family stuff but my son's in the hospital in an un-responsive state today. He was a bit off last night and I took him to emergency because he was really wobbly on his feet and disoriented. They've gone through seizure responses and are going to drill a hole to check for infections. I don't know if he'll be coming home this time.
What he said. I'm hoping for the best for you all.Praying for divine intervention.
Praise God. I hope he recovers quickly!Thanks, the hospital just called to say he's awake if incoherent, so that's a big improvement from this morning and after work. Even so I suspect we're going to see quite a few changes coming out of this.
Sending positive vibes and thoughts to all.Thanks, the hospital just called to say he's awake if incoherent, so that's a big improvement from this morning and after work. Even so I suspect we're going to see quite a few changes coming out of this.
I don't usually talk much about my family stuff but my son's in the hospital in an un-responsive state today. He was a bit off last night and I took him to emergency because he was really wobbly on his feet and disoriented. They've gone through seizure responses and are going to drill a hole to check for infections. I don't know if he'll be coming home this time.