It was very similar at UHawaii. Paper trouble, printing trouble, LaTeX compilation trouble. Remember, this was the Year 2000, back when LaTeX macros were still horribly buggy and if you put, say, 12 15Meg astronomical images on a page in a 3 x 4 grid, you can expect it to take 10 minutes per page for 100 pages of figures, but only 17 will print before the network crashes and your print job is lost. You're just begging for death's sweet embrace to envelope you.
And then some c$*k-s#*ker starts printing articles from the Astrophysical Journal at 2AM without checking the printing queue, and sucks down 25 pages of your special paper before you run to his office and tell him to cancel the job and use the damn printer he bought with his grant money, rather than the departmental printer...
THESE are the hoops that we each have to jump through, so that when we call each other Doctor, we truly know what it means to sacrifice in the name of Science!
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Date: 2005-11-18 04:40 am (UTC)And then some c$*k-s#*ker starts printing articles from the Astrophysical Journal at 2AM without checking the printing queue, and sucks down 25 pages of your special paper before you run to his office and tell him to cancel the job and use the damn printer he bought with his grant money, rather than the departmental printer...
THESE are the hoops that we each have to jump through, so that when we call each other Doctor, we truly know what it means to sacrifice in the name of Science!