09.27.07

Students are Back

Posted in General, Work at 12:12 am

Ah yes…school has started. I can’t walk down the Ave without putting myself in danger of having a stroke—people weaving about, stopping abruptly, and just generally getting in my way. But that’s not what this post is about.

I went to my office to print something. I submitted the job from my office and walked down the hall to pick up the print-out. Except the printer wasn’t working for some reason…and I couldn’t see the error because someone (probably some !@#$ freshman) had changed the printer display language to….Russian. I decided I had three options:

1. Write out the information by hand.
2. Try to remember how to reset the printer.
3. Find a professor that speaks Russian.

Three would have been a viable option since we’ve got at least a couple professors that speak Russian. Since the information I needed was only ten lines I just wrote it out by hand. On the other hand I can envision an amusing conversation taking place to request translation services:

“Hi Professor, I’m Matt MacAdam from Physics/Astronomy Computing Services. I need you to come downstairs and tell me what’s wrong with our printer.”

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