You Recycled That?!

[Aaron Adler <cadlerun@>]

Graduation is almost upon us - mark your calendars for next week's 
special graduation edition of GSB.


So, apparently 4 foot tall large poster tubes look like something that 
should be recycled. Here's what happened:

- I decide to make a poster for the CSAIL IAP* meeting Wednesday.
- Lots of warnings ensue about not waiting until the last minute to 
print the poster. I counted at least three.
- I decide that Tuesday morning seems like a good time to print out the 
poster. I was done designing the poster, and there's not so much 
competition for the plotter at 9am as there would be at say 1am.
- All goes according to plan.
- Poster placed in poster tube in my office.
- When I go to hang up the poster Wednesday morning, I notice a small 
problem. The poster tube has disappeared. With my poster in it. I find 
this amusing.
- I attempt to reprint the poster (with a certain sense of irony since 
I'm now printing the poster at the last minute).
- Plotter "jams". I use quotes because it didn't really seem to jam, it 
just misprinted and then decide it was going punt on my poster.
- Now I'm a little less amused, but I decide to try to print it again.
- It "jams" again. Ah, Murphy's Law.
- Loading dock is checked for missing poster tube. No luck.
- Try a new roll of paper in the plotter. Error message without even 
printing. Fantastic.
- Try another plotter. Print driver not installed.
- Printer path discovered, driver installed.
- Printing attempted. Different settings needed.
- Poster reprinted just in time. By this point I'm obviously less amused.

* Really? IAP? Really? There are 17,576 three letter acronyms. We really 
need to recycle the second most prominent one at MIT after M.I.T.?

Come discuss your recycling (or other) woes at this week's...

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