Liquid Nonsense

The whole buying-a-house thing has really served to illustrate the tedium that is paper work. I think I have signed somewhere around a hojillion different papers taking care of everything from home inspections, to seller disclosure acknowledgments, and various loan papers. This would not be such a phenomenal pain if so many technology changes did not have to occur. I receive papers in email, then I print, sign, and fax them back. Email, to print, to fax machine for one damned transaction.

I decided to investigate what options exist for digital signatures, and that in and of itself, took me the better part of three days to sort out. The standards regulating digital signatures are numerous and nebulous. Generally, I feel pretty confident with tech matters, but these were downright confusing. Long-story short: nobody would know how to handle a digital signature even if I used one because PDF files are scary and dangerous and essentially no one outside of a certificate authority seems to know anything about them.

In other technologically-inclined news, I have finally purchased a scanner. It's pretty nifty-spiffy and has enabled me to digitize various older "things" that I have meant to do for some time. Of interest:

Vintage. Pictures of people and events that pre-date college.

Japan. Pictures from trip to Japan back in 2003.

Note: I am going to apologize now. These pictures were taken on either A) a very shitty Kodak advantix camera, or B) a disposable camera. The quality is not the greatest.

Labels: house, pictures, technology