Last night, I came across a sign on my door notifying me that my apartment staff would be entering my apartment room to show it to a potential future resident. This is common for the staff to tape notes to my door to let me know of stuff happening involving me or my room.

Usually, when they tape it to my door, they put one piece of tape at the top so I can easily pull on the bottom and remove it from my door.

Apparently, whoever usually puts notes on doors wasn’t here today, and whoever temporarily replaced them was a troll.

As you can see from the bottom left, I tried removing the note from my door. Then I realized that the note was so securely attached to my door that the paper would rip before I managed to get any portion of tape off. Apparently, this messenger had the time and motivation to remove four pieces of tape and place them neatly on each corner, covering up the edge so the note would survive a tornado that might spontaneously form in front of my door.

So, instead of wasting my time sitting at my door picking off tape, I decided to leave them a note on their note (noteception).

In case you can’t read it from the photo above: “All four corners. Serious? Please remove and take after showing.”

There’s a semi-public printer on my psychology research lab floor – “semi” in the sense that anyone can use it, but they need to be connected to the same network as the printer, and have it properly set up. As most of us probably know, printers are notorious for causing problems at the worst moments (such as your color inkjet printer using all the cyan and yellow the day before a paper is due, so you have to turn in your paper printed with pink text). Public printers are just as bad, but about five times worse.

Yesterday, someone on my floor came running to me for help with the printer.

The problem? She intended to print page 72 of a 300-page PDF document. Instead, she accidentally printed 72 copies of the entire 300-page PDF document, and didn’t know how to cancel the print job.

By the time I made it over to the printer, there was about a ream’s worth (500 pages) of paper already on the output tray, and the printer was still going strong.

I wasn’t really familiar with the printer user interface because whenever I use it, it’s usually to print one or two pages, and I usually just walk up to the printer and grab the sheet(s) without having to check or touch anything else. But clearly, the life of an entire tree was in my hands, so I took a careful look at the controls.

There was a red button labeled “Stop.” I pushed it.

On the touch screen, it asked me to verify my choice. I hit “Yes.”

The printing stopped.

Apparently, if you accidentally print over 21,000 pages, you enter a state of such intense panic that you become color blind (or just blind in general) and can’t see a red Stop button.

I wonder what she ended up doing with that random ream of unnecessarily printed paper…

While I was watching someone streaming a few days ago, I noticed a funny comment pop up in the chat:

“Sandy is a stupid name, no one listens to a hurricane named Sandy. Should have been named Shaniqua, everyone would be scared of that.”

For those of you who live under a mossy rock and haven’t been keeping up with the news, Sandy is a hurricane sweeping through the eastern coast of the United States. Apparently, the problem is that people just aren’t accurately gauging how dangerous this hurricane is, and are not preparing properly. That is where the quote came from – clearly, if the meteorologists had named the hurricane Shaniqua (which sounds like the name of someone who likes to back-hand slap people), people would be taking this much seriously and be more afraid of the hurricane.

(No, I’m not trying to be racist against people named Shaniqua; the slapping is just an image that comes to my mind that’s associated with a name, just like how whenever I hear the name Bob, I picture a generic white male with brown hair and blue eyes who always wears a white t-shirt and blue jeans.)

In a slightly more serious note, I know someone who lives in New York, and fortunately, she was not severely affected by the hurricane. If you are in New York, hopefully you are in the same position. If you happen to be less fortunate and have faced some tougher times, the next time you think to yourself, think this:

Parkzer is currently whining about how he accidentally wore slippers out into the cold and his toes feel like they’re going to freeze off. I, on the other hand, just survived a hurricane. I’m such a BEAST.

I got an email earlier today telling me to pre-order my iPad Mini.

I looked at it for a little while, then wondered, what exactly is so special about the iPad Mini?

If you guessed “nothing,” then you’re just about right.

If any other company took one of their products, made it a bit smaller, and sold it as if it was a completely new and innovative product, people would think that they’re crazy and are just asking to go bankrupt.

But not the iPad Mini, of course. Because it’s made by Apple.

Apple could take this a step further and create a new iPod Jumbo.

And people would still buy it because it has the Apple logo on it.

Edit: No, I am not attacking Apple, and I am absolutely not anti-Apple (I have my own iPod Touch that I pretty much use just like a smartphone). I’m just implying that the iPad Mini might just be a step too far, and that I am unsupportive of people who just buy random new Apple products without thinking about if they really need it or not.