Wanna hear something funny?
Aug. 23rd, 2004 08:30 pmWe've got a newspaper office full of writers on deadline and not a single working word processor.
Yeah, we're all on the verge of either tears or mass technological takedown. Long live stone tablets!
Yeah, we're all on the verge of either tears or mass technological takedown. Long live stone tablets!
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Date: August 23rd, 2004 09:20 pm (UTC)My coworkers would use stone tablets to bash non-working computers in the office. *g*
It's crazy how things grind to a halt when technology doesn't work.
Our system went down two weeks ago and no one could do anything for five hours. When a coworker suggested using a typewriter to do little things like address envelopes and fill out forms [to pass the time while the system was being fixed], another coworker asked, 'We still have one of those?' We had one typewriter in the entire building but no one really wanted to use it. Everyone was so used to Word.
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Date: August 24th, 2004 12:27 am (UTC)Yeesh. And I love typewriters! Want one of my own, but yes, the mechanics of it, the sounds, the feel!