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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2005-08-02 06:22 pm
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I have officially entered the maze of administrivia necessary to create an on-paper business. I fully expect this to take a week or more while I chase pointers and wait for approvals to grind through different bureaucracies.

I'm trying to do this as fast as I can, but I think the System is fine-tuned to normalize all such efforts at expediency. This afternoon, for example, I hauled ass to get one form (MUST BE TYPED, DO NOT FAX) to the State House before 5. Got there just after 4:30, with everything still open, including the corporations department filings window, staffed with a sullen man whose sole job was apparently telling people that they close at 4.



I see that ITA has nerdbait recruitment ads all over the T. It's looking like 2000 again, gord bless them. I hope they're not being irrationally exuberant.

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2005-08-03 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
That was my first thought, too. Fortunately they thought to put interactive text fields on the PDF so I "typed" in my answers that way.

What's funny is that I didn't know that PDFs could have form fields like that, and I stumbled into them as I was preparing to export the document as an image, and then use GraphicConverter to overlay Courier-font responses on the lines. :)