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This is the podcast for February 17, 2006.

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Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where time flies when you see the fascist

running scared, it's the professional left with drip glass and blue gal.

And just as a show note, for those of you who keep track of such things,

we are recording this very late at night.

We're both a little, I guess, punchy.

Would that be fair?

I guess.

Because we blew out our ancient printer.

It gave up the goes today and it's

kind of integral to what we do. So we have replaced it. We did a mad dash to a local store.

And now we've got one with a fax machine. So you're going to be getting our newsletters fax to you in

your home just like the 90s, baby. I tell you, it's the 80s and 90s again, having a fax machine. Your paperless office, you know. Welcome to the paperless office of the 90s. That's back when I was doing help desk. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And now I'm doing help desk again. It's a different kind of help desk. Well, it's like the Friedman unit. It's always five years from now. It will be a paperless. There will never be a paperless office. That is never going to happen. Well, everyone knows that I took a pay cut and quit Crooks and Lires to go work in a cubicle job. Yes, you do. And the cubicle job is taking phone calls for health care. At this stage

in my training, I'm supposed to be taking between 40 and 55 calls a day. And today I took 77 calls.

Yes, you did. So if you want to talk about punchy. And you scamper at home. I did. To make dinner.

I was busy doing, I was doing surgery on the old printer, which I used to be able to do.

I've done that successfully several times.

Yeah.

This time the magic did not work.

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