Well, bluddy ell.<\/p>\n
I heard on the weather today that the atmosphere above Calgary was unstable.\u00a0 No shit.\u00a0 When I got out of work, it was freezing.\u00a0 When I rode the train through to downtown, it was a fucking blizzard.\u00a0 When I got downtown there was no freezing rain but it was about as windy as I’ve seen it all year.\u00a0 And when I got over to my end of the city, the sun was shining bright.<\/p>\n
That’s Calgary.\u00a0 And that’s doing a number on my fucking head.\u00a0 Fucking weather headaches.\u00a0 But I’m still pissed off about my fucking printer.\u00a0 Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.\u00a0 That’s fun to say.\u00a0 Say it with me.\u00a0 Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.<\/p>\n
I ordered a laserjet… so I will have to dispose of my crappy “all-in-one”.\u00a0 The scanner still works great… unless I destroyed it when I threw it into the corner.\u00a0 I’ll give it a whirl and if it works, I will give it to someone who needs a scanner.<\/p>\n
I have a scanner.\u00a0 It’s very old.\u00a0 I bought it in 1999 when I bought my first printer.\u00a0 That printer still works great, but the douchebags at HP no longer make ink for it.\u00a0 Assholes.\u00a0 Anyway, the scanner, a Mustek, is a parallel port scanner.\u00a0 It’s really slow, but it makes decent high-res scans.\u00a0 And I don’t do much scanning… I only need to scan things maybe 3 or 4 times a year.\u00a0 So I’ll hook it up to my laptop, which is one of only 2 computers I have with a parallel port input.<\/p>\n
I’m kind of glad I can use it again, because I went through quite a song and dance buying a new power adapter for it when I needed to make some scans a while back.\u00a0 No sooner had I gotten that power adapter than my old music PC died.\u00a0 Motherboard died.\u00a0 And my new computer didn’t come with a parallel port connection, and I didn’t think of getting one.<\/p>\n
So I got a parallel-port-to-USB adapter.\u00a0 That worked about as well as a wasp exterminator coated in liquid sugar wearing only a Speedo.\u00a0 Then I got a PCI parallel port connection.\u00a0 That never worked either, and I don’t really know why.<\/p>\n
Actually, Uncle Furry told me that parallel port scanners won’t work on a connection like that… but printers will.\u00a0 I guess I will never know for sure.<\/p>\n
Anyway, this saga will come to a happy conclusion when I have just a printer and just a scanner.\u00a0 Like it always should have been.\u00a0 What a fool I was to try and use those all-in-ones.\u00a0 When the shitty printer breaks… as they are designed to do… you need to replace BOTH.\u00a0 Fuck you, HP.<\/p>\n
And Fuck Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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