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Sometimes, just for the hell of it, he makes fun of spammers.

Posted on February 18, 2020 by

Yeah, I was bored, and there were all these funny/bizarre spam comments left on my blog… (Necessary disclaimer, ’cause some people choose to be idjits: No, I’m not making fun of people whose grammar is less than perfect; I don’t … Continue reading →

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Anything that can go weirdly, will. Especially copyediting fiction. Especially if the copyeditor is the author’s clone-sibling.

Posted on February 17, 2020 by

This is how it went, back near the beginning of the month: Needed to take a break from editing. Decided to listen to music. First song to come up was… “Eye in the Sky,” by The Alan Parsons Project. I … Continue reading →

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Cat pics!

Posted on February 11, 2020 by

         

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More cat pics

Posted on February 3, 2020 by

That’s what people keep coming back to this blog for, right? Cat photos… “Little” kitty Logan is getting huge. (Coompare this photo to how he looked back in July…) His hobbies include chittering at birds outside the kitchen window, sleeping … Continue reading →

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Apparently, Weaver knows grammar because he DOESN’T HAVE A LIFE.

Posted on January 27, 2020 by

Sometime over the weekend, some troll felt the need to leave a comment on literally every post here that deals in some way with grammar or other aspects of copyediting: “Get a life!!” Even if they typed that only once … Continue reading →

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‘Nothing to see here…,’ and why.

Posted on January 2, 2020 by

What you’ve been seeing here since the middle of August — or rather, not seeing — is me taking necessary (in)action to prevent burnout from getting worse. It’s the sort of burnout that’s apparently rather common for people of my … Continue reading →

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Not exactly the Olympic Games…

Posted on August 14, 2019 by

(Sometimes, irony not only catches fire but then floats up into the sky and drifts away…) I’ll just give you the short(ish) version: A few people in the local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) decided they wanted … Continue reading →

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