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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Friday, January 4, 2008

Grammar Oddity of the Week

The next in our series, brought to you courtesy of The New York Public Library Desk Reference, Fourth Edition.

Page 447:

“Watch out for spell checkers! If you ran the following sentence through your computer’s spell checker, it would tell you that nothing was wrong:

I have bin trying too improve my spelling for sum time now cents my secretary always says that it isn’t two grate.”

Page 445:

Ancient Greek texts had no punctuation and no spaces between words.

1 comment:

testmonkey said...

Page 223:

Cavemen tended not to use punctuation or even coherent speech. Instead, they preferred the much maligned grunt.

On the rare occasion that punctuation was indeed employed by an engineering caveperson, it was more or less utilized to penetrate the skull of a passing mastodon.