Snowy Friday Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- It's snowing. Significantly. For the first time this season. And again my theory that people become really stupid during the first storm of the season has been shown to be true. The drivers on the road this morning were just nuts (no, cutting off the bus when the roads are slick is not a good idea. Really).

-- Am I the only one who periodically prolongs conversations with people to hear their accents for longer? Yeah, probably. But I'm a sucker for accents.

-- You know that old saying, "Find a penny, pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck"? Does "all day long" mean for the rest of that day (so if you find a penny at 11:59 you have only a very short window to have good luck) or for the next 24-hour period?

-- The Boston Globe needs better copyeditors. Big photo caption on the front of Tuesday's City & Region section, about the snow that was predicted: "A Tiem to Enjoy, A Time to Prepare." In their defense (only slightly), spellcheck likely wouldn't have caught this, since the Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Security is named Le The Tiem and so "Tiem" is likely in their custom dictionary. But still, a human should be reading everything before it goes to print.

-- A brief conversation at Chez mabfan and gnomi
(Our heroes are watching TV, and an ad for the movie "Rent" comes on)

mabfan: I'm interested in seeing that, but not enough to see it in the theater.
gnomi: Well, we can wait until it comes out on DVD, and then we can...
*Much laughter ensues*

(icon in honor of the fact that yesterday my parents finally went and saw "March of the Penguins," at the only local theater still playing it. Gotta love the Arlington Capitol.)

Comments

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

that caption in the globe depresses me. they should be embarrassed.

I was equally distressed and amused. Amused that it could make it past people. Distressed, since I know a number of people who could make good money doing copyediting for them if they were hiring copyeditors.

Yay, pengies! :-)