Anyone else notice that I mainly seem to update this site on Tuesdays?
I got a paper through our library’s wonderful Document Delivery Service today. Rather than actually passing pieces of paper around, we get our documents on a website, which contains scanned images of the journal pages from wherever. (In this case, “wherever” is Fullerton, California; why the Cal State campus there is the most convenient library from which to get a twenty-odd-year-old article from an obscure Indian journal is left as an exercise to the reader.) This makes good sense to me.
I was hoping to just read it on my screen, but that turns out to be impossible; when I scroll past the cover page to the first page of content, I find myself looking at up-side-down text. Not feeling up to reading math up-side-down, I give in and print it out…
…to find that the second page of content is right-side-up… that is, up-side-down with respect to my inversion of the stack of paper. And the pages alternate thereafter.
While I admit that this makes sense in some ways, it’s a little annoying.