… in tan, lilac, and lavender, with hard-copy acknowledgement emails in steel gray, slate gray, california fog gray, pink with balloons around the edges, and freesia.
Don’t be absurd. Nobody would make carbon paper in a color as bright as freesia. Naples yellow is as bright as its gonna get, but it’ll probably end up being an offensively inoffensive beige.
No apostrophe on “Basement Dwellers”. That means Sweetheart is scanning the documents about the Basement Dwellers, and not any documents in the Basement Dweller’s possession.
Oh, there’s much more. But for someone whose job involves editing and reading long documents, simply having convenient navigation keys is a huge time-saver. Those little usability things add up.
I see the Hot Goblins series is up to 23 books. And the company that puts them out is starting to run out of title ideas.
I was gonna question why they didn’t have a scanner with a document feeder, but since Sweetheart appears to be using a pre-Intel PowerMac, I’m guessing they haven’t updated their equipment in a while.
as an office drone who works next to and occasionally in the copy center my immediate thought was “AHH! On a single-page scanner?! PLEASE NO PLEASE. Get an all-in-one scanner/fax/copy machine! They’re very cheap now!”
Scan to PDF and the 3rd party PDF combining software are my greatest tools. DOWNSIDE is that the PDFs are not searchable. Need PDF printers to do that before merging.
Y’know what I loved? Running my TIFFs of early edition copies of The Faerie Queene through a custom-coded OCR tool so it could read the old type well. (See link.)
Sweetheart deserves a huge bonus. No thumbs, no fingers, no wrists, yet she can type, pick up single sheets of paper, and push buttons. Clever dog! And, she can talk, too. (Yes, that bothered me at first, but I’d been having a rough day. Which, in retrospect, was a better day than what came after.)
(With apologies to the Beatles for doing this to Drive My Car.)
I heard a dog say in a happy tone,
“I’m not just a mindless drone!”
An e-mail popped up, right on her display
to tell her just what to do today…
Sweetheart, you must scan these files,
Yes, it’s gonna take a while
Sweetheart, you must scan these files
and keep them in order.
She started scanning immediately
said “I’m a captain of industry!”
UNITY’s got coffee, she’s quite wired
But watching Sweetheart makes her tired
Sweetheart, you must scan these files…
click-flip-and-scan-it, yeah!
Sweetheart, you must scan these files…
Before that dog had made it halfway
A robot called her up with something to say
The D of I had sent its best geeks
To get files they’d needed for three weeks
Sweetheart, you must scan these files…
click-flip-and-scan-it, yeah! (x4, fading)
I did that kind of work at my last job. We used a Cannon scanner that could run hundreds of pages through in an hour. No way in hell any of use would have used a slow flatbed for that kind of work.
Scanning documents is her only joy.
Not her only joy. She gets a kick out of filling them out in triplicate too.
… in tan, lilac, and lavender, with hard-copy acknowledgement emails in steel gray, slate gray, california fog gray, pink with balloons around the edges, and freesia.
Don’t be absurd. Nobody would make carbon paper in a color as bright as freesia. Naples yellow is as bright as its gonna get, but it’ll probably end up being an offensively inoffensive beige.
Better tell Tip, then. (Someone hasn’t been following the hidden file story!)
She’s adorable when she feels productive~
I like how she wrote Basement Dwellers capitalized.
No apostrophe on “Basement Dwellers”. That means Sweetheart is scanning the documents about the Basement Dwellers, and not any documents in the Basement Dweller’s possession.
Hey, I missed the word “files” the first two times I read it and was very disturbed.
Oh good, it wasn’t just me.
How would that even work, anyway? Is that a thing they can do?
They’re using Macs in that office?? No wonder they’re dysfunctional.
(This post written on a MacBook Pro, soon to be replaced by a Debian box. At last, a PgDown key again!)
Debian Box? And if the only drawback for using a Mac is no page down key, I’d take it.
Debian Box – computer running Debian Linux operating system. Popular, stable open source freeware.
Oh, there’s much more. But for someone whose job involves editing and reading long documents, simply having convenient navigation keys is a huge time-saver. Those little usability things add up.
I’m guessing this comment will never be seen, but “Fn-down arrow” works as page down.
(I do feel tempted by Linux sometimes, but my work doesn’t support Linux and it’s easier for me to stick with what I know.)
In some applications. But it takes two hands, and I have been surprised how much it slows one down. That and the delete-that-is-really-a-backspace.
Meanwhile, up on the roof (posted a few days ago but I’ve only just noticed)…
https://nickzerhakker.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/40/
“Poignant salamander-licking” and a punishment designed to curtail Tip’s libido 🙂
She’s literally pushing paper. And she’s literally doing it at the request of a sapient bee-colony, which puts her in the role of a drone.
What about the “government” part?
Working breed dog’s gotta work.
I see the Hot Goblins series is up to 23 books. And the company that puts them out is starting to run out of title ideas.
I was gonna question why they didn’t have a scanner with a document feeder, but since Sweetheart appears to be using a pre-Intel PowerMac, I’m guessing they haven’t updated their equipment in a while.
Nice to see Gavotte knows her employees so well.
“I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul.”
as an office drone who works next to and occasionally in the copy center my immediate thought was “AHH! On a single-page scanner?! PLEASE NO PLEASE. Get an all-in-one scanner/fax/copy machine! They’re very cheap now!”
Scan to PDF and the 3rd party PDF combining software are my greatest tools. DOWNSIDE is that the PDFs are not searchable. Need PDF printers to do that before merging.
Or run your PDF through an OCR tool.
Y’know what I loved? Running my TIFFs of early edition copies of The Faerie Queene through a custom-coded OCR tool so it could read the old type well. (See link.)
Oh, man! That (and editing the resulting near-gibberish) was most of my job back when I worked for the university!
They are perfectly searchable if you use the right software.
What, Skin Horse couldn’t spring for a scanner with a sheet feeder‽
They do. Her name is Sweetheart.
Sweetheart deserves a huge bonus. No thumbs, no fingers, no wrists, yet she can type, pick up single sheets of paper, and push buttons. Clever dog! And, she can talk, too. (Yes, that bothered me at first, but I’d been having a rough day. Which, in retrospect, was a better day than what came after.)
Poor Sweetheart. I don’t think she’s capable of understanding the concept of “meaningless busywork.”
I have no problem admitting that I would absolutely love doing this for several hours, so long as I was allowed headphones.
As long as there’s no time limit…
I have done pretty much exactly this for many hours as part of my job in a business archive. After a while you get into a rhythm…
Is that a pin-up of Lassie next to the Goblin Brotherhood poster? Does she know Lassie was actually played by a male dog?
(With apologies to the Beatles for doing this to Drive My Car.)
I heard a dog say in a happy tone,
“I’m not just a mindless drone!”
An e-mail popped up, right on her display
to tell her just what to do today…
Sweetheart, you must scan these files,
Yes, it’s gonna take a while
Sweetheart, you must scan these files
and keep them in order.
She started scanning immediately
said “I’m a captain of industry!”
UNITY’s got coffee, she’s quite wired
But watching Sweetheart makes her tired
Sweetheart, you must scan these files…
click-flip-and-scan-it, yeah!
Sweetheart, you must scan these files…
Before that dog had made it halfway
A robot called her up with something to say
The D of I had sent its best geeks
To get files they’d needed for three weeks
Sweetheart, you must scan these files…
click-flip-and-scan-it, yeah! (x4, fading)
Very well done! (I don’t always get to filk on weekends, depends on how many chores the wife has lined up for me.)
I did that kind of work at my last job. We used a Cannon scanner that could run hundreds of pages through in an hour. No way in hell any of use would have used a slow flatbed for that kind of work.
I had this job before, it didnt help the scanner was jamming every 5 minutes. @-@
Gotta say, love thar calendar in the background.