The english class of doom is underway. The professor is now demanding that we brinq 25 copies of all our future assignments, one for each student in the class... Right, like I still have a working printer I have access to? Since the iron-on transfer killed the laser printer, my parents won't let me use their surviving inkjet.

This is a rant on the new apartheid...

There are two groups of people in the college environment at the moment. One group consists of those who have computers, Internet access, the latest Microsoft Office tools, and in some cases, even CD writers. The other group is those who have to go through various levels of hell to get access to those. (A classmate has informed me that I was writing too loudly on the little Graffiti area... how silly.) Technology has progressed at a lightning pace, and so have the requirements of teachers. They went from wanting assignments typed, to having them turned in by disk and e-mail, to being based on Internet research, to being printed in color, and now one of my professors even demands that his work come back on CD-R. Just try to find a public computer lab which has THAT. Sadly, paper is the least common denominator, and yet, it's not going to be an easy medium for me to access for quite a while. From home, it's a 1 mile walk to Kinko's, which is next to an adult bookstore, two car stereo places that cater to riceboys, and a tattoo parlor; not that I mind this, it just seems a bit odd. Sadly, this lack of a printer places me in the group which is singled out to never succeed without going through pure hell. Okay, I really have THREE printers, all of which are now dead.... Epson Stylus Color 2, bad nonreplacable printhead. NEC SuperScript 150C, cartridges no longer made or available. Okidata OL600e, bad drum unit. HP 600C and ? , parents won't let me use one and won't buy cartridges for the other. I propose this: Each time my parents refuse to let me use their printer, I'm going to place one of the dead ones in their bed, knowing how much they love to have such things to themselves. All yours, yes. Oh yeah, btw, watch out, the Oki likes shocking people with good ol' 120 when it gets dissatisfied....