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College To Save Money By Switching Email Font
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has come up with an unusual way of saving money: changing their email font. The school expects to use 30% less ink by switching from Arial to Century Gothic. From the article: "Diane Blohowiak is the school's director of computing. She says the new font uses about 30 percent less ink than the previous one. That could add up to real savings, since the cost of printer ink works out to about $10,000 per gallon. Blohowiak says the decision is part of the school's five-year plan to go green. She tells Wisconsin Public Radio it's great that a change that's eco-friendly also saves money."
Who was the genius there that had them using ink jet printers instead of laser? Probably the same genius that thinks this will save them money?
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
Or, you could stop printing out all of your emails.
Oh, who am I kidding. We've still got professors at my school lecturing with transparencies they produced on typewriters. It's going to be years before the entirety of the faculty is willing to handle paperless communication.
--saint
professors think they are gods of there classrooms and can demand paper copies.
We also think we can demand proper spelling. Now bow before me!
This feels .... so wrong.
Next up - saving electricity by using smaller fonts on the computer screens.
I have a bad feeling about this....
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
It has "holes" in the letters to save ink. So instead of 30% less ink usage this college would have about 45% less ink usage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofont
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Since it is a smaller, lighter font, you can save a lot of money by not needing such large hard disks to store them.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Thanks for the technical help but ... I really hate it when people take a perfectly weak joke post and then try to make it sensible by adding some bit of erudition or a fact or two. It ruins whatever humorous implications that were originally present, minimal though they be.
In summary let me just say this one thing:
WHOOSH !
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Agreed
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Please consider the environment before reading all this drivel.
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