Some disagreement out there about what BERG’s Little Printer is for. I don’t have any special insight but I think it’s a charming and clever thing and I badly want one (I’ve put my name on the tell-me-when-I-can-order-one mailing list). So I had a think about what I’d print if I did have one:

• Inscrutable password suggestions.
• Daily quotes from John Cage’s Diary.
• Disquieting messages for people in other rooms.
• Orders!
• The frightening bits from out-of-copyright works.
• The funny bits from out-of-copyright works.
• Dog names.
• IKEA product locations, Argos reservation numbers, mall maps.
• Jokes.
• (black and white) pictures of funerals and snakes.
• Sequentially-numbered tickets.
• Encouraging messages (when it looks like I’m a bit stuck).
• Lists.
• Postage stamps (obviously).
• Cocktail recipes.
• The names of all the fictional countries in the Wikipedia entry for ‘fictional countries’, one per day.
• Itineraries.
• Daily diet and exercise sheets.
• Obscene notes.
• Treasure.
• Something to do while your computer’s rebooting.
• Eventbrite tickets.
• Local currency.
• Everything said by one particular friend online during one day.
• Game tokens.
• Optimistic assessments of the situation.
• The catalogue number of the CD on the radio now.
• Hidden meanings, asides, sub-plots, back stories.
• Chess moves.
• Philip Larkin.
• In-game messages.
• Running totals, lap-times, half-time scores, way markers.
• One-time keys.
• The distance from earth of the Voyager 2 space probe.
• Billets doux.
• Wind-ups, complicated hoaxes, in-jokes, gags.

(…I could go on).