Chapter Twenty-One. Silliness
LIFE IS NOT all seriousness, of course. Here are some sillier things that happened.
The much-misunderstood “nop” action
THE PRINTERS WERE reconfigured in our building, and we got an announcement that went like this:
Subject: Printer/Copier Reconfiguration
*Action Required*
blah blah blah printers are being reconfigured blah blah blah
Action(s) to be taken: No action is required, as the print path information will remain the same.
Sometimes you have to do nothing, and that counts as doing something.
Don’t let Marketing mess with your slides
I FORGET WHICH conference it was, maybe CGDC 1996. We were all busy preparing our presentations and submitted them to the Microsoft conference representatives so that they could ...
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