lame geekiness

[mamajoan]

Through some labyrinthine logic that works perfectly in my mom's head, I gave my brother $100, and in return I got my mom's old vacuum cleaner (she bought herself a new one) and will be getting her old Macintosh, complete with printer and scanner and modem, as soon as she finishes transferring her data to the new one.

But she let me take the printer home tonight, after we realized that it's Windows-compatible too, which means I can start printing stuff (e.g. resumes, writing samples) right away. Wahoo. So I took it home and set it up, and then realized I don't even get geek points for that because it was so damn easy. Snif.

I can't remember the last time I had a functional printer. I feel so lame. :) It even has color. I've never had a color printer before. See above re: lame. But in an amused sort of way.

Comments

Geek points

[xochiquetzl]

You get geek points. Printers are the bane of all system adminstrators' lives. :)

Re: Geek points

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

yeah, but isn't that more when they're networked? I mean, when it's one computer and one printer, how complicated can it get? "Oh look, I installed the drivers and now the printer works. Whew! Let's knock off for a beer!"