I'm going to write a 10000 page book and every page is just going to be a different arrangement of the text "Sucks to be you!"

Try looking for a specific Jackson Pollock Drip Painting out of dozens with a book that's BLACK AND WHITE.

/Art Hist Paper. I'm pissed.

Sounds like the kind of job someone takes so they can get high and not have it affect their work.

I'll try it, then.

If your job is scanning every page of every book ever written yoooou might wanna kill yourself.

It could be worse. They should make him use windows vista's speech recognition to digitalize everything.

"It's monotonous," the 24-year-old said.

Haha. Welcome to life. Haha.

It might suck but it's a really important step in going from the print age to the digital age.

bonecows: It could be worse. They should make him use windows vista's speech recognition to digitalize everything.

Windows Vista is the only speech/handwriting recognition that actually accepts my handwriting/voice properly after training for anything more advanced that "Call Dave."

/"Insert generic anti-Vista BS"
//"Insert Slashie"

Now that the books will be online, burning books will be a meaningless gesture by the fundies.

FTFA: "Kahle said there's a core value in the project, in preserving material indefinitely and enabling broad access to it. But he questioned whether Google will share the works it digitizes with other search engines.


You know, I'm usually right behind the burn the corporate bastards to the ground parade, but that seems stupid. Google is the one paying for all these books to be scanned and digitlized. Why in the world should they then be expected to share all of that with AOL or Yahoo?

hahaha TeddyRooseveltsMustache, I was going to say the same thing, except without Jeff Foxworthy's input. I was just going to say that that guy just needs to end it.

Guy needs an iPod.

I'm at the point where I look forward to monotonous jobs at work. Put on the iPod, catch up on the dozens of podcasts I enjoy, but don't get enough time to listen to... pretty sweet actually.

On the other hand, I do get enough non-monotonous work to keep things interesting, so there ya go.

No! Save the internet for porn!

Condor is jealous

Do I have to deal with customers? Does it have good benefits?

I'll take it.

/hello, listening to music or watching movies while doing it.

Try manually masturbating animals for artificial insemination.

/I'm not even supposed to be here today.

Minerva8918: hahaha TeddyRooseveltsMustache, I was going to say the same thing, except without Jeff Foxworthy's input. I was just going to say that that guy just needs to end it.

Sounds like you'll get over it.

pounddawg: Try manually masturbating animals for artificial insemination.

/I'm not even supposed to be here today.

No machines, huh?

Damn. So close.

clipperbox: Now that the books will be online, burning books will continue to be a meaningless gesture by the fundies.
FTFY. I don't think book burnings ever are big enough to stop people from obtaining a copy of the books being burned.

what is with spelling/grammar in today's headlines?

assistant crack-whore.

It had to be said

wildrufus: what is with spelling/grammar in today's headlines?

the

the spelling/grammar. Oh nevermind.

rburp: clipperbox: Now that the books will be online, burning books will continue to be a meaningless gesture by the fundies.
FTFY. I don't think book burnings ever are big enough to stop people from obtaining a copy of the books being burned.

Oh, I dunno, they did a heckuva job on Aztec. Only, what, 3 books survived total?

wildrufus: wildrufus: what is with spelling/grammar in today's headlines?

the

the spelling/grammar. Oh nevermind.

it had to go/take take/go

Malinki: Condor is jealous

Joe Turner: Listen. I work for the CIA. I am not a spy. I just read books! We read everything that's published in the world. And we... we feed the plots - dirty tricks, codes - into a computer, and the computer checks against actual CIA plans and operations. I look for leaks, I look for new ideas... We read adventures and novels and journals. I... I... Who'd invent a job like that?

/first thing I thought of too

shubai33: Malinki: Condor is jealous

Joe Turner: Listen. I work for the CIA. I am not a spy. I just read books! We read everything that's published in the world. And we... we feed the plots - dirty tricks, codes - into a computer, and the computer checks against actual CIA plans and operations. I look for leaks, I look for new ideas... We read adventures and novels and journals. I... I... Who'd invent a job like that?

/first thing I thought of too

Gotta find a copy of the book one day. I want to know what happened to the other six days.

Could be worse. Could have to work in this place.

/one of the best short stories ever
//from one of the best short story writers ever

This is my dream job. No customers, interesting books, and quiet. Just give me an ipod and I'll do it with a big smile on my face.

According to the caption of this photo, this is either a guy named Courtney or one ugly chick.

clipperbox Quote 2008-04-26 02:48:55 PM
Now that the books will be online, burning books will be a meaningless gesture by the fundies.

burn the internet?

This is the kind of job that makes a good argument for legalization of the weed. Am I right?

Bunnyhat: Why in the world should they then be expected to share all of that with AOL or Yahoo?

Considering that Google already has repositories of files that are freely accessible to anyone, I'm failing to see how the issue even comes up.

I found a mention of my great grandfather in a book I'd never heard of, by a guy I'd never heard of, because of these libraries and Google and their scanners. Bought my mom a copy of the book using bookfinder.com. It made her cry. YAY INTERNET!

And this is why I am so glad to have the job that I do- I get those books from the library to send to the poor farkers who have to scan them.

I don't think they've had an employee last more than 4 months.

RandomExcess: assistant crack-whore.

It had to be said

Is it really that bad being an "assistant crack-whore"? I mean, the main crackwhore is going to be the one primarily taking up her various orifices. All you'd have to do is sit there naked making out with her or rubbing on the client. I guess the assistant crackwhore gets less crack, but that better for her health and worse for her boss's health. And when the main crackwhore dies before she does, then she's got all her old business just for being on standby.

Just sayin'

I did something analogous for years. Not scanning, but processing scanned pages of newspapers with a software suite which I helped write and debug. It wasn't that boring, but then I can find old newspapers and periodicals interesting for lots of reasons.

Most "WTF?" moment? Seeing an article in the Ohio Farmer from the 1890s that was titled "Roots and Rape for Sheep". Language change is weird sometimes....

They play Bob Seger's 'Turn the Page' over and over on the intercom to motivate them.

Ghastly: I'm going to write a 10000 page book and every page is just going to be a different arrangement of the text "Sucks to be you!"

It's called House of Leaves.

Where do I sign up?

I recently came across the most boring pirated software torrent package ever. 100+ programs for scanning books and texts into digital form. It was like 8GB big, and had every freaking OCR program I've ever heard of, plus dozens more for languages like sanskrit and early handwritten Arabic. Most boring torrent pirate evar.

Need some excitement this weekend?

I found this game on Fark three years ago and I'm still playing.
Simple, fun, and competitive multi player game much like the board game RISK. COme check it out here: Last Knights (new window)

Call me crazy, but I think Courtney might munch the carpet...



but I could be wrong...

Premiere's this fall.

Turn the paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaJUH

This is the life of ANY e-Database/Archival tech on the planet earth. Scanning thousands and thousands of pages of terrible, terrible paper because someone high up thinks that an online database is somehow the next hot thing, even though the paper works just fine.

Sigh.

Bet he's got lots of time to think about the merits of graduating with a Liberal Arts degree.

It is monotonous.

No. Monotonous is manually scanning a few boxes of old family photos.

Try manually scanning every page of every book ever written.

That is hell.

I would love this job! Are there any openings? This would rock.

kelmeister Quote 2008-04-26 03:10:35 PM
I found a mention of my great grandfather in a book I'd never heard of, by a guy I'd never heard of, because of these libraries and Google and their scanners. Bought my mom a copy of the book using bookfinder.com. It made her cry. YAY INTERNET!


INTERNET !!!

Is there anything it can't do?