The end of work tonight (or last night for most of you) was a frustrating lesson in what happens when incompetence mixes with unnecessarily complicated technology: Everyone within a 500-foot radius will pay. So, with much relief and clinging to a few shreds of sanity, I came home eager to tend to my family of blogs. Unfortunately, this is the only one that will receive attention. Because my scanner -- my evil, evil scanner -- is trying to finish me off. I mean it is really, really putting a lot of energy into my demise. For example: I have just completed scanning the following image ... ... for the 16th time. Yup, 16 times. Why would I ever scan the same thing 16 times? I have no rational explanation. I just like things to be straight. It's a simple request by my way of thinking. Place an object on the scanner. Line it up in a reasonably straight fashion. And, presto, it should emerge on my backlit screen STRAIGHT! But my scanner won't do this. Bec...
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