Showing posts with label English is hard tho. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English is hard tho. Show all posts

Monday, July 29, 2013

Packed and all eyes turned in

You're going to freak out about this.

But for even for scientists, sometimes life needs to take the front seat.

We just moved into our San Antonio townhouse (before the complex was completed with their renovations or turned on the air conditioning). It's been a flurry of angry cats, drywall dust, and achingly painful flea bites in our 85 F degree abode.



OMGWTFBBQ

Thursday, May 23, 2013

If you liked it then you shoulda put your name on it

Dear everyone who's applied to or for anything ever:

Label the files that you email to someone in a way that would make the file names in someone else's possession make ONE MODICUM of sense.

For example, if you send me an email, and attach a resume(or CV), these file names make me want to reject you without further thought:

resume.doc
myresume.doc


This annoying little thing makes my frustrated mind over-value the resumes of people that actually put their name in the file. It's such a dumb little thing, but when there's a stack of applicants for a position, you might be surprised what people use as their selective criterion.



Like that one time, when someone forgot to spell check their email to me, and called me Dr. Swam.










... And then I stupidly and mockingly posted the above on Facebook, and now some of my roller derby family (lovingly?) call me Dr. Swam or Swammy.


So... yeah. Label those files.


Friday, May 17, 2013

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma

So... just so everyone knows:

Orientate is not a word.

Noun: Orientation
Verb (present tense): Orient
Verb (past tense): Oriented

Orientate is not a word and I reserve the right to snortle when you say stupid shit.


UPDATE: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orientated

It's a word according to my Facebook and interwebs, so I gouged out my nasal passages to prevent future undeserved snortling.