brief diversion

[da]

Having a photocopier at work which scans pages to email is pretty sweet.

I made peace with the document-feeder even though it turned the first page into an accordion.

Because when I turned the page the other way, it did fine, and it snapped through all twelve pages in... 45 seconds? And emailed the PDF to me before I could get back to my office. Zoom!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

That is sweet.

The copier at my last job would scan documents for you, but would then insist on domain admin privs (!) and local admin privs on your box, and stick the scans onto your desktop. That was way too creepy for me. Way cool, but.. no, sorry, not going there.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

That could produce an amazing virus vector. "Yeah, I was infected by a scan. Who knew?"

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

*laughs* Excellent!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

I can't claim originality, mind you!

[katwrites.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my firm has a bunch of those! They rock! We even have a couple that will (albeit more slowly) turn a printed table into an excel spreadsheet, which in accounting is a godsend.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Kat! zomg, you're alive! ;)

That auto-spreadsheet sounds handy, fer sure. My home scanner does auto-OCR on pages, which means my scanned PDFs have selectable text. And sometimes it's even 100% accurate, which always surprises me. I can do manual OCR, though I'm usually too lazy for it.

But searching my computer for a certain phrase, it's super-cool when it comes up with something that was (until a month prior) stashed in the closet on a piece of paper! :)

(Incidentally: will I see you in 17ish days?)

[katwrites.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am alive, and I've been reading your livejournal. I'm not coming to FGC because

1) I'm going to be in Seattle watching live baseball
2) I'll have just moved into my first home, and
3) I'll be studying for the hardest section of the CPA exam between July 1 and August 28, and all time off will be dedicated to that.

But! I will be at Midwinter in Portland for 2009! Will you?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. Maybe my statement was slightly histrionic. It's good to hear from ya.

I strongly expect that I will be in Portland for '09. Yay!

CPA exam == scary stuff. Hardest section- close to the end? Or is there a lot yet to go?

First house- awesome! How's your sweetie?

I definitely have nothing to say about baseball.

[katwrites.livejournal.com]

Sweet! My parents have a nice, centrally located granny flat you would be welcome to use if one or both of you plans to hang out in Portland before or after Gathering. They were tangentially at both Ghost Ranch gatherings -- you may have met them. They are nice, unobstrusive hosts, and have lent out the flat to FLGBTQC'ers before.

CPA exam -- definitely scary. I am one section down of four, the next one (which I'm starting to feel ready for) is July 1, the hard one is August 28, and the last one is in October. Thankfully, we only have to pass the exam once!

Josh is doing great -- just graduated with a CS and Econ degrees and is now trying to find a job someplace besides Intel (known locally as the "soul-sucker"). We adopted a cat together last year and got really lucky with a friendly, lap-sitting orange tabby.We are both completely ready to move out of our student apartment into the new place, which has a Real Kitchen (Josh's favorite feature), windows that look out on something besides a parking lot (the cat's likely favorite feature) and our own laundry facility (my favorite).

[driftingfocus.livejournal.com]

Wow. I want one.