Another Random Friday... kind of late

• One thing I learned this week: Dr. Seuss used only 50 words to write Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you

• I have discovered coffee flavored milk. And there shall be much rejoicing.
• I finally put up the Christmas tree Thursday night. It is still light-less and ornament-less, but it's a start.
  
• Kyle has been obsessed with playing our pinball machine lately, and suddenly he's gotten very good at it, for a 4-year-old. Pretty soon he's going to be better than I. Not that that's very hard. I'm going to get a video of it one of these days.
  
• This headline cracked me up:
• Other great stories this week:
  

Edgar the Cat's face reattached after accident
Chipmunk takes over woman's car

That's what I call job security

Wanted: Copy Editor

Major League baseball team seeks eagle-eyed editor with close attention to detail to avoid embarrassing snafus. 

Seriously, folks. Which is worse, the error itself, or the fact that it went unnoticed for four innings? 

I suppose you can't really blame the 5-year-old Chinese kid forced to make this jersey for 5 cents an hour.

I wasn't watching the game that night, so we'll never know if I would have noticed it myself. I like to think that I would have.

 

hoo givs a dam uhbowt speling?

I noticed this article on Yahoo! today. So if spelling is hard, we should just forget about it? I say we do the same thing for trigonometry!

The Girl in the Window

Read this. Trust me. Read it. The Girl in the Window

Then watch this. Video.

Just grab some Kleenex first.

Then go hug your kids.

i learned something new today

i know it's summertime and We're not supposed to learn anything new until September, but i thought this article was an interesting look at Our language. click here

Maybe e.e. cummings was onto something.

Oops!

I was just in the break room getting more coffee. While there, I skimmed the local paper and came across this lovely gem. Of course, I had to see if the goof made it online, and I was not disappointed. Here is a screen grab, in case they correct the original.

Here is a close-up of the goof:

Here is the original link (until they fix it): Mankato Free Press

I'm not making fun of the story at all. I'm just making fun of the unfortunate mistake. I'm an editor. I get to do that.

So how does one "road a bike?" Does it mean using your bike on a road? You know, as opposed to "trailing" or "bike-pathing" a bike?