Archive for May, 2008
Of impending doom. Or printers. Perhaps doomed printers work better?
My printer hates me. Well the bubble-jet-crap one does. The pixma i.e. scanner doesn’t get used much as a printer.
Perhaps doing all my printing on one day of the week probably isn’t a good idea. But does it have to kill my ink cartridges so? I have to change them once a week. Least they’re easily refillable I suppose. But then it also seems to skip sheets so when you’re trying to print lecture notes sequentially on both sides, to which, say uh oh. In particular, the printer hates accounting lecture notes for some reason. The page numbers get so out of whack that its not even funny anymore. page 28, page 13, page 32, page 4. Yeah. Rather worrying. Of course, I wonder if Onenote is the cause of it as the problem ceases when I turn them into pdf files. Onenote’s printing abilities are sorely lacking after all.
On the other hand, pdf files. I am not quite sure what’s going on with colour management, but it seems to treat white as light grey and so it wastes infinitely more ink on something that doesn’t seem any different. Perhaps I’ll try and turn on the contrast.
Of course, I suppose.. the primary factor for less than sound printing — I use lined paper to print on instead of plain. ;P It’s really great because you don’t have to staple holes =D Not so great when the pages stick together.
So you would think that after having about 5 canon bubblejets break in a row [and one HP multifunction which I shall never mention again 
Maybe I'll stick with Canons after all], I would stop buying them. But hey, like this newspaper article I once read [and may have actually saved on my computer in the form of a blurry photograph (oh look, I almost never use my canon camera. Is it because its a canon too? Although truthfully, that's probably due to my subpar photography abilities that needs lots of touchups in the wonderful invention known as photoshop to look decent) ] mentioned, printers are practically disposable. Mehh.
My two subjects with assignments are done, but now i need to focus on the homework. Because, you know, I will be assessed on it more than likely. Whether it be of the verbal form or the quizzical form.
Pathetic.
Edit: Hn! Whatever. Not pathetic. I’ll just kick arse in the finals! >_> When even THEY are less stressful than the midsessions [albeit, more to process and remember], clearly, the midsessions+assignment were not clear reflections of my ability. But least I’ve tested the waters of their marking styles. And sunk. But that’s beside the point. Oh and its my birthday on Sunday and I have 2 assignments to do by then. Yay. Then I have to be at uni on Monday by 11am rather than 12pm. Which blows, because that means I have to go to sleep earlier. Well, I know I’ll be skipping YAA again at this rate.
I am pathetic.
That or I ought to ease up on the extracurriculars and focus more on the curriculum.
Either way, I need to improve in all my subjects. Because at the moment? They’re all pathetic. [P]-a-t-h-e-t-i-[c].
See how there is no D in pathetic?
*cries*
I cannot believe how terribly I have done. What was my worst subject has risen to become one of the better ones. What I thought was good has fallen tragically. And then the other two are probably not going any better. Although my knowledge isn’t marred. It’s a learning experience I guess.. I just hope that it’s a fall recoverable from. PRIOR to the final exams that is. Because.. a full four days of exams might as well be another hit and miss. Although actually, that IS still better than my midsessions were.
After all, nothing is straight after each other anymore at least, are they? There’s at least a day between to focus rather than switching views. Nor are they examinations conducted in the evening.
Optimistic? Hardly.
Glad my timetable next semester is better. Even if it is 4 days and I have to go Fridays now and finish at 7pm. But at least tutorials are in the morning. Really can’t think after dull 2 hour lectures followed by two continual tutorials.
… I hate Wednesdays. =x