The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

June 19th, 2008

Installing The New Equipment in the Writer’s Office

So about 8:30 I come home with a brand new HP OfficeJet j5780 which I got from my nearby Staples. It’s cool; it’s small, it has a sheet feeder and a pretty small footprint… smaller than the one it replaced.
I’d forgotten the goat dance that goes on when you get new equipment.
First, there’s the unpacking. […]

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June 19th, 2008

Buying New Equipment for the Writer’s Office

My printer has finally given up the ghost. It’s an HP PhotoSmart 2410 and I got it free because I became a beta tester for them. That was over five years ago, maybe more than six. I remember when they came to set up the test unit, and how I had to go to a […]

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January 24th, 2008

The Goat Dance of New Equipment

A bunch of years I beta tested a hp psc 2410 photosmart all-in-one printer. (Yep, on the printer it’s all lower case.) When I’d finished the test, they gave me a brand new one which I’ve used ever since. Yesterday I went through one of the goat dances we all face from time-to-time.

A client wants […]

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August 13th, 2007

Our Equipment Is Smarter Than We Think!

So someone sends me a 58 page paper on a subject that’s dear to my heart. Since I’m feeling time pressured, the best thing to do seems to be to print it out for reading on my flight Wednesday. I click my print button and instead of the usual smooth printing, with occasional shouts for […]

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