gug
11-03-2003, 05:44 AM
this is the coverletter i am attaching to the latest copy of our formula sae report (formula sae is a subject at adelaide uni). i have wasted over $50 in printing bills on this f@#king bulls@#t f#$cked up file, so im handing it up with some random highlighting and missing the page numbers on about 100 pages.
for those of you out there who get along with computers as well as i do, here is a coverletter for you to attach to your reports. <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> To Whom It May Concern:
Throughout this report you may notice interesting formatting features such as random highlighting, missing page numbers and alternating bold/italic paragraphs. This is a new feature of Microsoft Word. Whenever the author presses print, Word uses its pseudo-random incident generator to determine where the formatting should take place. The pseudo-random incident generator is called pseudo-random because while its output appears random, the highlighting is formatted in such a way as to make the document look as stupid as possible. The same pseudo-random incident generator is used by windows to cause apparently random system crashes, yet these crashes always appear when the user has not saved their work for more than 10 minutes.
My best efforts to remove this feature have come to no avail. Countless hours of editing all go to waste as soon as the print button is pressed, because the pseudo-random reformatting re-occurs at this point. So hopefully some good can come from this feature of Word. The report should definitely stand out more in your mind as unique...
I sincerely hope that when you scream "What the bloody hell page am I on" for the fiftieth time you will remember that it wasn't my fault, and that I tried really really hard to fix it. Also, I hope that you will accept our next 300-page report hand-written.
Yours sincerely,
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actually, since my team members will probably read this and get stuck into me for handing up shit, i should probably say that its not really that bad. ill fix up the highlighting i guess...
im reeeeaallyy tired now. i think i should get some sleep. maybe that will fix up my sense of humour... http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif
- the problem with the world is stupidity. i'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety lables off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
for those of you out there who get along with computers as well as i do, here is a coverletter for you to attach to your reports. <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> To Whom It May Concern:
Throughout this report you may notice interesting formatting features such as random highlighting, missing page numbers and alternating bold/italic paragraphs. This is a new feature of Microsoft Word. Whenever the author presses print, Word uses its pseudo-random incident generator to determine where the formatting should take place. The pseudo-random incident generator is called pseudo-random because while its output appears random, the highlighting is formatted in such a way as to make the document look as stupid as possible. The same pseudo-random incident generator is used by windows to cause apparently random system crashes, yet these crashes always appear when the user has not saved their work for more than 10 minutes.
My best efforts to remove this feature have come to no avail. Countless hours of editing all go to waste as soon as the print button is pressed, because the pseudo-random reformatting re-occurs at this point. So hopefully some good can come from this feature of Word. The report should definitely stand out more in your mind as unique...
I sincerely hope that when you scream "What the bloody hell page am I on" for the fiftieth time you will remember that it wasn't my fault, and that I tried really really hard to fix it. Also, I hope that you will accept our next 300-page report hand-written.
Yours sincerely,
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
actually, since my team members will probably read this and get stuck into me for handing up shit, i should probably say that its not really that bad. ill fix up the highlighting i guess...
im reeeeaallyy tired now. i think i should get some sleep. maybe that will fix up my sense of humour... http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif
- the problem with the world is stupidity. i'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety lables off of everything and let the problem solve itself?