Beam Me A Copy, Scotty
Posted on | March 3, 2008 at 10:54 pm | 2 Comments
I think I’ve mentioned before that my cubicle at work is very near the network printer/copier. And it’s a very noisy and distracting printer. This printer malfunctions on almost a daily basis, so it has lots of issues. Chief among those issues is that whenever it starts up, the initial sound it makes reminds me a lot of the Star Trek “fight music”. (But then again, maybe everything reminds me of Star Trek incidental music.) When it makes that sound, I can’t help picturing Kirk and Spock going at it in “Amok Time”, or Kirk vs his silver-clad Drill Thrall chick in “Gamesters Of Triskelion”, or Kirk vs the reptilian Gorn in “Arena”.
I guess it could be worse. It could play the Diane Warren-penned theme to Enterprise.
Latre.
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2 Responses to “Beam Me A Copy, Scotty”
March 4th, 2008 @ 3:29 am
I once put the Star Trek fight riff on the homepage of a comic’s website I was building – as a joke, initially, but he had me leave it up there for years!
And that comic went on to play ‘Losing Team Owner’ in “Semi-Pro”… it’s true!
Now you know, the rest, of, the story.
March 4th, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
Similar experience, InfK: I once put something on an interface to show the salesperson how what she was asking for was horrendous and distracting. She held a meeting and made it company policy to do the same thing with all similar interfaces.
As for office distractions, the good news is I have my own office. The bad news is that I share it with the refrigerator, the sink, and the cat’s litter box.