Breaking the spell-checker is a sign of success
Woke up this morning at an early-for-Greg hour of 6, hit the computer starting at 6:30.
I wrote six words in Codex and Word sprouted an error about how I had too many grammar and spelling mistakes and it had to shut off autocorrect.
I felt judged and also great for having enough raw material to break a word processor.
The Minnesota recount has revealed a stunning sea change in electoral politics within America: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19_challenged_ballots/ I, for one, am surprised that our new reptile overlords are humoring us with the vote, when they could easily enforce our slavery via nuclear-powered ray guns.
Being tired of doom-and-gloom news that is anathema to resolving the problem, I wrote a greasemonkey script that changes all instances of “economy” or “economic” on a page to “doughnuts” and “doughnuty,” respectively. And then I saw that “the doughnut is shrinking” and nearly wept.
