There's a Science of Zombies thing at the DGA theatre. A panel of neuroscientists and epidemilogists are doing a talk with George Romero after a screening of Night of the Living Dead, and I volunteered to help herd cats into the building. FUN!

That is AWESOME. 100% Undead AWESOME.

I fourth the leave work now rec. I'd be beside myself with worry and wouldn't get a single thing done.

Big!Boss is on the warpath -- I mean SERIOUSLY -- because 1 word was misspelled in our guidelines for authors. Out of 2,000 pages/year of articles with words like "abciximab" and "fluoroquinolones" (all of which are spelled correctly), he loses his SHIT over ONE WORD.

He's demanding to know where the "paper trail" is for the author guidelines, WHO is responsible for the error, WHY can't we show him an actual galley proof of the guidelines (which were created in December of 2008 -- gee, maybe that's why we don't have a galley on hand).

I'm not sure why he wants the "paper trail," because what will it prove? Does he REALLY want to publically shame someone for misspelling one word?

Perfection, by its very definition, is impossible. Therefore, demanding it and then punishing someone for not achieving the impossible makes you an asshole. Even if you're the boss.

No Craigslist links, please.

I posted about lost kitty to Craigslist (good idea!) Now I'm trying to finish up some SQL at work, but I'll see if I can leave work soon. I'll make up some flyers before then....

Huh, I was sure abciximab had to be made up.

Even very smart people make stupid mistakes. My father, who is a doctor and wicked smart besides, once looked up "camera" in the dictionary. (He was mentally pronouncing it "cam-AIR-ah" and couldn't recognize it!)

Tep, what was the word??

Wrod.

Tep, what was the word??

"Commentaries," spelled as "commontaries."

SHAME! WE HAVE BROUGHT SHAME UPON OURSELVES WITH THE LETTER O!!!

Oh, people. Why so craxy?

"Commentaries," spelled as "commontaries."

faints dead away from the shame of reading such a thing