I find amusement in seeing what people eat when they’re “trying to eat healthier.” The bagel with cream cheese? The taco salad? FAIL.
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Twitter Update (#860875168)
Something Sensei said last night at Zen made me realize that I’m not so much an atheist as a pantheist. That’s why Zen makes sense for me.
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Twitter Update (#860834194)
Another sleepy morning, and I even got to bed before 1am last night. Just had a weird and vivid dream around wake-up time and overslept.
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links for 2008-07-17
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Every day on my way home from work, I drive by the spot where this happened. I knew it wasn’t the best neighborhood, but I didn’t think the locals would shoot and kill a stranger on a bike over a name-calling dispute.
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‘”Please Don’t Vote for a Democrat” reads the type over the picture of the twin towers after hijacked airliners hit them on September, 11, 2001.’
Eagle-Eye or Anal-Retentive?
I see these all the damn time online. I suppose I shouldn’t be so continually surprised that professional organizations are apparently bereft of their copy editors in the rush to get news posted online. But typos in ads? This banner ad ran on CNN.com for several weeks before a corrected one appeared.
I’m such a stickler for typos anymore. I guess I always was, but I’m finding them even more lately. I just finished reading a trade paperback — a Sci-Fi Book Club printing, I believe, of The Dragonriders of Pern — that was embarrassingly rife with typographical errors. They’re like speed bumps; they take me right out of the story. I can’t fathom how a three-in-one book like that got published with so many typos. Don’t these companies have editors? Even for a reprint, mistakes happen, and I’d think there would be someone to catch them.
Simple errors like that can make or break a professional relationship, especially one so dependent upon the written word. Would you trust a newspaper that misspelled the word “missile”?