The tongue-in-cheek headline on the WSJ’s front page today made me laugh out loud. The irony of this article is that workgroup printers and copiers at DFAS had duplex (printing both sides) capability when I was there in 1996. Anytime it was suggested that printing on both sides of the paper would save money and actually use the features of a printer or copier, that suggestion was met with derision.
Today my mother called me because she had been trying to print out a rebate from Olay.com and was not able to print out the rebate. It was cut off. So I tell her I will print out the rebate (thinking it was nothing). I print the rebate and it was cut off.
So I took a close look at the rebate and what do I see? The document is sized at 17.7″ wide x 22.9″ long.
Unless one knows enough to shrink the document to fit the paper, one is not going to be able to print out the rebate, and will be very frustrated, probaby not realizing that it’s not them. My mother was frustrated because she doesn’t print out PDF files often enough to know that they can be made any size. I consider my mother very technically savy for her age.
I resized the rebate form. You can download the rebate form HEREÂ (at least until Olay tells me to stop).
I am not going to speculate as to why Olay posted a rebate that can’t be easily printed. Rebates are a big enough pain without this added distraction.
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Hattie, her sister Phoebe, and I were shopping the other day when we were turned on to the latest “craze” in adult fitness – hula hoops – or “hooping” as it is called. This was something that I loved to do as a kid, and I am desperate to find something recreational I enjoy doing that doesn’t hurt all over. So I went to my favorite place, Google, and started my research on hooping.
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For those of you who don’t know, Eli Stone is a show on ABC that has been canceled. The finale, aired on July 12, was also one of the most tear-inducing shows I’ve watched since “Touched by an Angel”.
Eli Stone is an attorney who has visions due to a brain aneurysm. He believes that God wants him to have the aneurysms and serve as a sort of prophet. Most of the first season featured George Michael songs and flashes of George Michael. The second season deals largely with the law firm’s decision to be more philanthropic.
Each show has been very good, and that’s why the cancellation is so sad. Some shows need to go away. This one does not.
The final show centers around two themes. One theme is Eli having a vision about a plane crash that involves someone he knows; identified by a briefcase found in the wreckage given by his legal partner. He has no idea who it is, but through a process of elimination, he is trying to keep that person safe.
This particular episode also deals with an atheist who is in need of a heart transplant and the parents of a girl on life support who will not relinquish the heart of their daughter because they don’t want their daughter’s heart spending eternity in hell. The show raises some very interesting questions with this issue and comes to some very interesting conclusions surrounding the parent’s idea of their daughter’s wishes and how we, as Christians, need to address the “unfaithful”.
What I like about this series is that it covered many ideas surrounding faith in a manner that while not necessarily pleasing to the conservative Christian crowd, still handles faith issues with integrity.
This show was a breath of fresh air among all the CSI/Sociopath/Shoot-em-up/reality shows and I will miss it.
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