Laguna Winter
It was a dark and stormy night this New Year's Eve, like really dark and really stormy. A howling wet mess -- the sun shades on the porch swelled up…
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January 2, 2023
Clicker-training the cat
It's been a long pandemic, and I know a lot of you have been trying to better yourselves, to find ways to lead fuller, more satisfying personal and professional lives.…
November 15, 2020
I have a beef with the Denver Post
When you're creative, it's important to have someone in your life who can tell you that what you think is clever is actually just stupid. How do I know? Because…
July 8, 2018
The intellectual origin of dummy text
I'm starting to think that maybe I don't know a lot of things. Today I discovered that Lorem Ipsum isn't just fake Latin. It's taken from Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum…
November 22, 2017
Musta been tuf to be a copy editor at the Chicago Tribune back in the day
Thumbing through a 1967 special section of the Chicago Tribune we found at an estate sale and noticed that they spelled through and though as thru and tho, like the kids…
August 3, 2017
It’s a pity about this backpack’s name
I know. It's supposed to sound like fuel. But that's not what I see whenever I come across someone with one of these dumb backpacks. Instead, my brain reads it…
March 29, 2017
Don’t like singular they? Tell Mike Tyson.
Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth. Obviously, this brilliant quote from Iron Mike works both literally and figuratively. But it's a great and timely…
January 10, 2016
Hit the ground and just take it easy for a bit, you ninjas
You see this a lot in job advertisements: Candidates need to be able to hit the ground running. Hit the ground running. I guess what this really means is that…
June 15, 2015
Very curious.
There's this regional bank in my, uh, region that uses the tagline: The curious bank. Every time I see it, though, I read curious as strange: The strange bank. I…
February 11, 2015
‘In Dog We Trust’ isn’t the real blasphemy here
Remember that time the Vatican misspelled Jesus on a commemorative coin? Solid comedy gold. Now some sheriff's office in Florida misspelled God on its office rug. But you know what's…
January 16, 2015
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