Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Halloween fright

The log-in screen at the school where I work is changed seasonally. Last year I created an elaborate halloween movie but was unable to post it. This year I took an image from the movie and submitted that:


Apparently this was too much for a couple of faculty members, becoming offended at red color under the window. The students were fine with it, but this place is littered with panties-in-a-wad stuffed shirts. I'm not sure what the gender of the faculty were. Imagine if the movie had gone through. Here's a link to the original attempt at it.

Friday, October 13, 2006

I'm bad.

One of my coworkers flies through reams of paper on the color printer assigned to my office. I don't mind it so much except that she never puts forth any effort to replace the paper.

I have two boxes left of highly calendered plotter paper, 8.5x11. It's not bright white but oh is it smooth. Her last job ate the last of that paper that was in the tray and then there was the rest of the brighter white cheap copy paper. So I had an idea. I have a stack of pumpkin orange paper in another drawer. I stuck that in the printer and hid the other boxes of more expensive paper.

Today sure enough she starts printing and comes in to see her job printed on orange! She kind of chuckled and said orange wouldn't work, and stopped the job. She took out the orange and went on her way. A few minutes later it ran out of paper and she came back in and started getting a bit higher blood pressure with her sighing and panting.... "Where is there more paper?"
"I don't know. Might be out."

She left the office in a huff and came back with paper from somewhere... not sure where...