I have been known to say “Printers are terrible.” I have also been known to say that I will only do tech support on printers for people I love.
I later expanded my “Printers are terrible” to be a broader maxim: “Computers are terrible.” Which is something of a mantra for me.
Some say it is ironic, or possibly a troll, to say this given that for 25 years I’ve worked in computers. But it is neither. I am a subject-matter-expert on computers and I find them terrible.
I would say that my work in computers is to remediate the terribleness as much as possible.
Oh, why the sign? Well, the snark which I love so much from Matt in IndieWeb conversations I felt needed some subtle (not very subtle) comment.
The edges are rough because I used a boxcutter rather than a proper X-Acto knife. It was 5 minutes of fun.
I will refrain from overusing it to punctuate meetings. It could be (shock! horror!) taken as trolling behavior.
