I hate hardware

[prog]

The printer now seems to print everything except the book. Frustrating: I send it the book's TOC just to see what happens, and I can track the data's journey through my iBook's print server to cricket's, and then from cricket to termite, the printer itself (so N christened it, in keeping to the morgul.net insect theme (partial explanation: beyond its new role as print server, cricket is primarily the house MP3 server)). Termite, being a cheap printer, has a UI consisting wholly of two lights (a green OK light and an amber UH-OH light). I can tell that it got the data from cricket, because it sets its green light to winking: it's in rumination mode. And there it stays, for at least five minutes, until I give up and see what effect poking its single button might have. As it happens, this causes it to flush its internal queue and print out its test page. Whatever. I'm gonna go get some coffee and figure this out later.

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Also, I was unfair to myself yesterday, in saying I hadn't done anything completely orginal beyond ComicsML since leaving Maine: I designed Currents, a board game. But I started the design before I signed the P&X contract, and haven't had the time to develop it further in a whole year. So, yes. More of that.

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celebrated jumping frog cows rock!

[jadelennox]

so it was worth it.