Monthly Archives: March 2019

Do typos matter? (A true story)

Sometimes typos don’t matter. And sometimes they do.

If your burger joint has a menu with some missing punctuation, I’ll eat there anyway.

But when your medical company’s pamphlet for transcranial magnetic stimulation brags about how it fared in “clinical trails” … well, I have some concerns.

Crane Girl progress update

All appearances to the contrary, I have been working on my pet monstrosity pretty consistently for the past month. The progress bar isn’t looking too impressive yet, but it’s twice what I had last time. What’s more, I’m having fun. I think that’s still allowed.

Happy weekend!

I’m sorry, ma’am, your son’s going to be an engineer

We got this card game for kids. One set of cards has situations and another set has feelings. So for example, you’d draw the card “How do you feel when it’s your birthday?” and the kid picks the card “I feel excited!”

I picked up a card and asked Evan, “How do you feel when you break your favorite toy?”

Ignoring all the feeling cards, he said, “Fix it!”

They are looking for my feedback