Gordaen's Blog

I bought a cheap briefcase to use during my teaching internship and in it came directions for setting the locks. I couldn’t believe how many errors were in these directions. Here’s a sample:
Now turn the dials to your own secret number and mark the number down in some place where you can refer [...]

The mystery of the missing pen was solved by the washing machine.

I have started taking my trips to the grocery store a couple of hours after most people eat dinner in order to avoid the majority of shoppers. I like to get in and get out as fast as possible, so I was in a hurry tonight just like any other time.

What is going on at the left side of this advertisement? When I first saw it, I thought the lady was being run over and had hit the glass with her fists, cracking it. Then I looked closer and saw that her arms were thrown up in dismay; apparently that’s her windshield and [...]

Instead of the using the term “Photoshop” when referring to an image that has been digitally manipulated, we should use “dima” (like the di in dinner and ma like mud… or like “Those are some dima lightbulbsa”). I think it’s blasphemy to dima an image in GIMP and say it was Photoshopped.