[TCP] Painful

2006-12-01 Thread Dana Worley
It's Friday, December 1, and given my tendency towards structure and order, I went to Borders last night to purchase a calendar so I would have January 2007 in front of me (I keep two calendars up -- one with the current month and one for the upcoming month). I bought a standard sized

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2006-12-01 Thread Thomas Johnson
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dana Worley Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:38 PM To: tcp@techcommpros.com Subject: [TCP] Painful It's Friday, December 1, and given my tendency towards structure and order, I went to Borders last night to purchase a calendar so I would have January

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2006-12-01 Thread James Barrow
Dana Worley wrote: [] I bought a standard sized calendar and a couple of calendars for the family members as Christmas presents. [] So this morning, as I'm getting ready to walk out the door with my new calendars in hand, I yell, I can't take this calendar to work! It has a typo! Fine Art

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2006-12-01 Thread Milan Davidovic
On 12/1/06, Dana Worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My husband responded from upstairs that it must be painful being so anal. There's a right way to read that sentence, and then there's a wrong way... -- Milan Davidovic http://altmilan.blogspot.com http://www.terminus1525.ca/studio/view/2758

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2006-12-01 Thread James Barrow
Thomas Johnson wrote: [] Me, I'm wondering if we'll get enough snow to get the XC skis out tomorrow. We're getting dumped upon right now. Hop the next plane to Los Angeles. Current weather: Sunny with a high of 70 degrees evil giggle. - Jim __ Are

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2006-12-01 Thread Bruce Wolf
--- Dana Worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Fine Art Calendar 2007 Where the Perfect Light Embraces Nature and All It's Glory It's Glory! It is Glory! My husband responded from upstairs that it must be painful being so anal. :-) Dana Dana, Dana, Dana Just

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2006-12-01 Thread Beth Agnew
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dana Worley Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:38 AM To: tcp@techcommpros.com Subject: [TCP] Painful ... I can't take this calendar to work! It has a typo! Fine Art Calendar 2007 Where the Perfect Light Embraces Nature and All It's Glory It's

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2006-12-01 Thread technical writing plus
Someone else said to correct it with a red pen and use it in your office anyway. I'd say that you go could that route or you could correct it in a less obvious manner, if the mistake can be corrected so, and then you could wait and see if anyone ever says anything. And then when someone does say

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2006-12-01 Thread Al Geist
dave kerschbaum wrote: I love the Keweenaw Peninsula. They sell postcards in diners there depicting a marker showing the height the snow would have reached had it all fallen at once during the winter that they set the cumulative snowfall record. I think it's at 34 feet, or something like that.

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2006-12-01 Thread Dori Green
Display it, enjoy it, say nothing. If anybody else catches the error, hand them the gift-wrapped Kudo bar you've been saving for exactly that moment and tell them they've won it fair and square. Do the same thing for the second person who independently notices the error. When they hear about

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2006-12-01 Thread Melissa Nelson
] To: tcp@techcommpros.com Subject: Re: [TCP] Painful dave kerschbaum wrote: I grew up in Ann Arbor, and currently live in Ann Arbor. I often wonder where the magnificent ginormous snows of my youth have gone. Did it really snow that much more then, or does it have more to do

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2006-12-01 Thread Mike Starr
Expert Phone: (262) 694-1028 - Tollfree: (877) 892-1028 - Fax:(262) 697-6334 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Web: http://www.writestarr.com - Original Message - From: Dana Worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tcp@techcommpros.com Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [TCP] Painful

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2006-12-01 Thread Milan Davidovic
On 12/1/06, Mike Starr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grumpy old fartSo is this a case of the minimalism chickens coming home to roost??grumpy old fart I think we can put this down to something more fundamental -- not knowing your audience. Minimalism need not enter the explanation. -- Milan

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2006-12-01 Thread Dana Worley
On Friday, December 01, 2006, Mike Starr wrote: grumpy old fartSo is this a case of the minimalism chickens coming home to roost?? I think it's a case of Canon not wanting to hire technical writers. It truly is the worst camera manual I have come across. Dana

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2006-12-01 Thread James Barrow
Bill Swallow said: Dana Worley wrote: I think this is a sickness. I wonder if it can be controlled with meds... I recommend fine craft beer. ;-) Or a white Merlot. I had that for the first time last night. It's...zippy. - Jim __ Are you a Help