[alttab]

You should get a camera and write an OCR scanner that automatically scans the receipts as they are printed, then pushes it into a DB so you can view all your issues via a simple web application, replete with tracking, reminders, and then an e-mail integration that e-mails the opener of the issue when you put a comment on the receipt that's printed and rescanned.

[iamjackg]

This reminds me of a comment I read a long time ago about somebody's experience working for a company that had a branch in Japan. They would demand that some spreadsheets be sent as a fax, and then some employee would be tasked with re-typing all that information back into a spreadsheet later on.

[duxup]

I once had a cube next to mine. It was the “Japan Cube”, all it had was a printer and a fax machine.

It was only ever used for faxes to and from Japan.

Eventually it was decorated with Japanese art and etc.

[SllX]

Someone once told me this is how they share source code between departments at some software shops in Japan.

I still refuse to believe this is true.

[iancmceachern]

I once worked at a job where one of the owners of the company, when asked to send a pdf copy of a document, would print out the document on the shared office copier/printer, then scan it back in using the same copier/printer and have it email him the pdf. Every single time he ever made a pdf of any file, even hundreds of pages, he would do this way.

[gkop]

I know this is a joke, but Jaron Lanier actually proposes machines communicate through human (?) or VR (?) interfaces. Something like that. I spent 15 minutes searching the web and my library but couldn't find it. I read two books of his, it must be in "Dawn of the New Everything" or "You Are Not a Gadget". I'm fuzzy on the idea, but found it interesting enough that I remember it.

[biryani_chicken]

I once got a phone's speech-recognition system to recognize another's text-to-speech system, just to see how accurate they'd be. And I know one game that has a speech-recognition system to post in chat and then other players can use text-to-speech to read the chat aloud. Fun times.

[eckza]

Web 2.0 -> Web 1.0 -> Web 2.0 adapter.

[bmn__]

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Web_0_0x2e_1

[recentdarkness]

All Hail to the air gapped database - At least no one will be breaking into that one that easily.

[merlincorey]

Lil' Bobby Tables submits an issue.

[randomdata]

A day in the life of a bookkeeper.

[tristor]

This is rather clever satire.

[nixpulvis]

This is rather clever commentary.