Bouncing liquid surface can make bubbles do a stop-start dance

Bubbles driven around on liquid surface by sound waves.

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[sarusa]

I never realised that the inkjet printer is the natural enemy of the Chris Lee. It all makes sense now. Laser printers forever!

I realize the humor value, but inkjet printers are the natural enemy of everyone.

Laser printer:
- Sitting here totally quiet. It's years old, never needed a cartridge change.
- Print a dozen pages
- It fires up, even though it's been idle for two weeks
- First page printed in 5 seconds, all printed in 20 seconds
- It goes back to sleep
- It just works

Inkjet Printer:
- Sitting here making occasional disturbing noises (as it tries to maintain the head, wasting ink)
- Print a dozen pages
- It fires up
- Since it's been idle for two weeks, it goes into deep maintenance mode
- Sits there whirring and sucking for two minutes, eats a tenth of the tiny ink cart
- Starts printing. Whunk chunk. Whunk chunk.
- First page is done. Oh look, nozzles are still clogged, streaks everywhere
- Cancel the print
- Do a cleaning. Two more minutes of whirring and sucking, another tenth of the ink gone
- Try printing again
- It doesn't realize I just did a cleaning, since I cancelled the last one it decides to do another cleaning
- Two minutes (etc)
- 'Black cartridge is out of ink'
- Drive out to the desert with the printer and an automatic weapon
- It never just works

I worked on Inkjet printers for 10 years, so I know how terrible they are.