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Someone is waaaaay too much into his inkjet printer:

Just now, I was doing some full-duplex (2-sided) printing of some SXSW information. I was watching the paper come out, pleased at how well the printer works, and then it sucked the paper back in! It made a kind of “hmm” noise, and then it somehow flipped the paper around internally. Then it printed the second side of the same page, backwards from the way it had come out before. After I took the paper from it, the printer emitted a satisfied “I am so hot” sound as its inkjets settled into standby mode.

The effect was almost exactly like when you’re (a guy) sitting at a nice restaurant talking to an attractive woman, and she takes the cherry from her drink and pops it into her mouth. A few seconds later, the stem and pit come out, but you notice the stem has been tied into a knot by her tongue. She smiles as if nothing special has transpired, and continues the conversation while you try to remember what the hell you were talking about.

You know how, sometimes, you see a pretty girl walk by, and she looks at you, and you get this tingly feeling, and that feeling reminds you of that totally awesome print job you ran the day before, the one where the print was crisp, the pages fed properly, everything was collated, and the toner smelled like roses?

You don’t?

Neither do I. But I wonder if Dave does.

UPDATE: Hmmm. Mere moments after I posted this, the linked post vanished. It’s back now. I think that Dave was updating at the same time I was posting because a bunch of new posts appeared at the same time as the other post seemed to vanish.