Just wondering, what are the odds of my printer randomly spewing out a naked page with a little heart, font eight or six, in the top left corner?
I was about to print some stuff today and noticed that a sheet was sitting there. I don’t know how long it’s been sitting there, potentially for weeks, but it had a little heart on it. So little that it would’ve looked like an ink blot if random luck hadn’t made me look closer.
Now I can think of several people who would do this, but only one person who could do this, and I’m confident she wouldn’t break into my room and print off a heart.
So should I start freaking out about who’s been in my room, or has the Minolta Pageworks SL been known to do this? This is really freaking me out, my mind has already been stretched pretty thin by studying for an Anthropology mid-term. Somebody help, please!
Every printer I’ve ever used has done something similar at one point in time. It usually does the little heart and a few smiley faces as well, and any combination of other pointless icons. I don’t know exactly what causes it, but it’s happened to me.
Or maybe we’re just the weird ones…
P.S. I am getting a perverse sort of amusement from knowing that only half of my female friends would be expecting the porn on my desktop, so there’s a fifty-fifty chance that I really freaked someone out.
Let’s see, who’s been avoiding me lately…
Wait, she would’ve had to have seen the porn before she printed the page. The fact that she still printed might be a clue in the elimination process.
Way back in the day, when I was writing code for Tandy 2000s (one of the clones of the original IBM PC) the control characters would display as happy faces, card symbols and similar pictures. This will probably still happen with some printers.
I always knew I had screwed up bad when the pc started laughing at me by clearing the screen and displaying a happy face.