A Heffalump or Woozle's very sly sly sly sly!
I'm a dirty rotten scoundrel. But that's what is called for when I fight in such a desperate battle against such nefarious foe!
The battle is such: in the art labs the "Computer Technology Support" CTS for short (stands for Cranky Troubled Souls) have posted signs stating that "no paper other than that put in by the Lab Techs is allowed. Failure to comply will result in loss of lab privileges." Yes. They actually say "failure to comply." Those are words I expect to hear come from the mouth of Governor Tarkin. This leads to difficulties for the Design students. Our professors have pounded into our brain the fact that the paper "put in by the lab techs" is crap. You know saran wrap? yeah, it's about as opaque as that. You know filo dough? yeah, it's about as thick as that. So basically, if you try to print on it, anything, and try to turn it in, you will get laughed at. And then graded down. Do the lab techs care? Do they realize that we actually KNOW how to change the printer settings? do they realize that this is what we DO? print is our primary media! Honestly!? But "Failure to comply..." the words hover like a bee poised to sting an unsuspecting and innocent young child, happily playing barefoot in the sandbox.
But Lindsey, you ask, surely...surely YOU comply!? Surely YOU do not risk the loss of your lab privileges by placing paper of your own questionable choice into the very delicate and highly strung printers??? Surely YOU follow the carefully considered policies laid out by people miles away in the IT department basement?
Hell. no.
Apologies. Sometimes situations call for mild profanity. This is one such situation. Many of you know that I have Junior Review in four days. Some of you know that I am redoing some projects for that review. None of you know that I am actually pretty on target with my projects and ready to print. I cannot, WILL not show a poetry book printed on frickin saran wrap filo dough paper. So, today the battle was waged.
I brought my nice laser paper (honestly, it's not wierd paper, it's not like i'm trying to print on rabbit skin or something) cleverly concealed in a black folder. I carefully scanned the lab for a Blue Vested One. Scan completed, I went back into the graphics room to get my hard drive. I informed some classmates of my plan (a common plight, we all struggle against) and was informed of a new tactic employed by said Blue Vests! Namely: NO BLUE VESTS!!!! Yes! They are going UNDERCOVER!!! Just last night one of those sneaky Woozles busted said classmate for putting transparencies into the printer. Busted! By a streetclothes techie! Their evilness knows no bounds. So...no longer safe from the Unvested Blue Vests, I had to employ another method. Strike back with similar sneakiness!
I got my file ready to print...then casually, oh so casually, wandered to the printer and quietly, oh so quietly, placed my paper into the actualy tray. Most people get caught at this point because they try to load their paper into the Manual Feed tray. A very obvious sign to the Vest that something not quite up to their snuff is going down beneath their nose. My method allows for no visible alteration of the printer. I returned to my illustrator file and proceeded to say Print...print print print print....If I tie up the printer with my jobs then I'll be sure to get my paper out of there before anyone else has a chance to print on it. Ha! Success!!!! I now hold in my hand the 24 pages of my Bob Dylan poetry book...on Laser Paper!!
Tune in next time to find out if our Heroine is able to print on Vellum....
The battle is such: in the art labs the "Computer Technology Support" CTS for short (stands for Cranky Troubled Souls) have posted signs stating that "no paper other than that put in by the Lab Techs is allowed. Failure to comply will result in loss of lab privileges." Yes. They actually say "failure to comply." Those are words I expect to hear come from the mouth of Governor Tarkin. This leads to difficulties for the Design students. Our professors have pounded into our brain the fact that the paper "put in by the lab techs" is crap. You know saran wrap? yeah, it's about as opaque as that. You know filo dough? yeah, it's about as thick as that. So basically, if you try to print on it, anything, and try to turn it in, you will get laughed at. And then graded down. Do the lab techs care? Do they realize that we actually KNOW how to change the printer settings? do they realize that this is what we DO? print is our primary media! Honestly!? But "Failure to comply..." the words hover like a bee poised to sting an unsuspecting and innocent young child, happily playing barefoot in the sandbox.
But Lindsey, you ask, surely...surely YOU comply!? Surely YOU do not risk the loss of your lab privileges by placing paper of your own questionable choice into the very delicate and highly strung printers??? Surely YOU follow the carefully considered policies laid out by people miles away in the IT department basement?
Hell. no.
Apologies. Sometimes situations call for mild profanity. This is one such situation. Many of you know that I have Junior Review in four days. Some of you know that I am redoing some projects for that review. None of you know that I am actually pretty on target with my projects and ready to print. I cannot, WILL not show a poetry book printed on frickin saran wrap filo dough paper. So, today the battle was waged.
I brought my nice laser paper (honestly, it's not wierd paper, it's not like i'm trying to print on rabbit skin or something) cleverly concealed in a black folder. I carefully scanned the lab for a Blue Vested One. Scan completed, I went back into the graphics room to get my hard drive. I informed some classmates of my plan (a common plight, we all struggle against) and was informed of a new tactic employed by said Blue Vests! Namely: NO BLUE VESTS!!!! Yes! They are going UNDERCOVER!!! Just last night one of those sneaky Woozles busted said classmate for putting transparencies into the printer. Busted! By a streetclothes techie! Their evilness knows no bounds. So...no longer safe from the Unvested Blue Vests, I had to employ another method. Strike back with similar sneakiness!
I got my file ready to print...then casually, oh so casually, wandered to the printer and quietly, oh so quietly, placed my paper into the actualy tray. Most people get caught at this point because they try to load their paper into the Manual Feed tray. A very obvious sign to the Vest that something not quite up to their snuff is going down beneath their nose. My method allows for no visible alteration of the printer. I returned to my illustrator file and proceeded to say Print...print print print print....If I tie up the printer with my jobs then I'll be sure to get my paper out of there before anyone else has a chance to print on it. Ha! Success!!!! I now hold in my hand the 24 pages of my Bob Dylan poetry book...on Laser Paper!!
Tune in next time to find out if our Heroine is able to print on Vellum....
posted by Lindsey at 5:39 PM
1 Comments:
Wow, that's pretty mean of them. You should have your instructors go talk them into letting GD students have special printing privileges. Good luck with preparing for the review, i'm sure you'll make it. Way to be responsible. I've been distracted from my studies by the crossword challenge (details on blog) but I have made progress. See you Sat.
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