HP Wireless Printer (possessed)

Monday morning I was at work looking at the NZ Herald website, when I found a link to a Listener article talking about "Man vs Printer" a hilarious Trademe auction. It closes today in about 7 minutes, but I have spent the better half of the last two days going back to the auction to read the question and answer section of this auction by Nick Ward. He is apparently on the radio now and is being filmed by a film crew hopefully this will be shown tomorrow night on tv along with the destruction of the evil HP printer (as long as the highest bidder actually wants it destroyed - it will be so disappointing if they don't.)

I know I shouldn't be so addicted to trademe, but some of the questions and answers are hilarious, I have had such a good laugh about it, I even added a comment of my own, just to say thanks to him. He is really funny. Good on him I think the auctions up around $265, so hopefully he can take his poor neglected wife out for dinner somewhere nice.

Here is his description of the printer:

Words cannot express how much I hate this printer. It never works when I need it to - it's like it knows when I have to urgently print something. It randomly decides if it wants to work wirelessly or not. And scanning wirelessly? Forget about it!

When you first turn it on it will play an endless symphony of sounds that are simply there to fool you into thinking that it might actually do what it's designed to do. Don't be fooled. This thing is evil incarnate.

I've spent hours on the phone to HP trying to set it up. It has made my life a misery. That is why I am getting rid of it.

So why on earth would you want this unholy piece of garbage? Well there's a good chance it will work for you there's nothing technically wrong with it except it has a soul of pure darkness. Maybe you can tame it. Also it has BRAND NEW PRINTER CARTRIDGES IN IT. I put these in in the blind hope it might decide to work properly - it didn't. So at the very least you will get new(ish) cartridges. This is virtually as new but I want it out of my life for good!

So here's the deal you must come and collect it. If you twist my arm I might mail you the ink cartridges but only if the price is right.

Also if you, like me, think that Hewlett Packard makes the worst printers in the history of technology then I will SMASH this piece of sub-standard feculence into a million pieces on your behalf and send you a tiny bit of it for your collection. I will also post a video of the smashing to Youtube so you and all your friends can enjoy watching it get what's coming to it.

However, if you want to come and get it that's fine as well I guess - but be warned with this printer also comes it's terrible curse.

His blog: Woodofkings.blogspot.com
Trademe auction: http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.asp?id=611109951&cc=61&pid=273702982&hbc=24&ct=link

Winter blues

Even though I keep intending to and also telling myself that I'm going to get out into the sunshine more, I haven't. Because its cold outside and the weather is so up and down. We have been plagued at work with fog the last couple of weeks - yesterday was a case in point. 3 flights got off the ground before 7am but then the 7:30am flight was delayed til about 11am, the fog just came in like a thick blanket of white wrapped around the airport and they didn't have enough visibility to get out. Luckily we got 2 flights away at 11am because both those planes were on the ground but nothing could actually land til about lunchtime.

People have been quite nice in general about it, since it is a weather disruption, but a lot of them don't understand how it works, which is fair enough, because how would they? My funniest thing is when people ask us when the fog is going to clear. I don't think that they realize what they are actually asking because we are not weather forecasters nor fog readers, and we don't usually know when its going to clear.

But after being asked that question several times I decided that they are probably actually asking, what time of day does it usually clear. I usually try to offer comments like, "Well yesterday it cleared by lunchtime, so we are hoping that will happen today too."

I just feel sorry for the people that are going places for meetings that suddenly can't and have to cancel because we can't get them down there in time, because roading them to auckland to send them out of there takes quite a while.
Yesterday we had some people volunteer to go to Tauranga just so we could get them on an earlier flight out of there.

I went to boot camp last thursday and then the next 3 days after that I could barely move my muscles had completely stiffened up and I had soreness all over my back and legs. I want to go again though, I must be a glutton for punishment, but I can just see that I would be so fit by the end of it if I kept going. Good motivation.