Digital Editing Gifts

Photoshop was to make Colin the envy of the angling club.

"I'd like to see what we can do about fixing your aspect ratio."

'I took the liberty of digitally enhancing my resume to make a mountain out of a mole hill.'

'Save or delete...decisions, decisions..it's just like being at work!'

Campaign for Plain English

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Punctuation Police

Evolution.

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

Mozart on a computer,

Personnel - "This letter of recommendation is full of misspellings!"

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"

"Baxter...about this report...your punctuation, spelling and grammar are perfect. No one can understand it!"

Contemporary English Lesson: The Cat was Sat on the Mat.

Geek fairies

"It's not an actual hotdog, but digital ownership in a picture of an actual hotdog."

"I've given up on the novel. There's more money in writing inspirational memes."

"Still suffering from writer's block?"

"Various entrances to the gates of Hell."

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

"You are running low on cloud storage space. Please upgrade your account to continue."

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

"I just edited your Wikipedia entry." "Big whoop." "What a coincidence, that's what scientists have classified you as: Bigwhoop." "...The much grumpier, much louder, and much, much older second cousin of Bigfoot." "You lousy son of a..." "Wait... thank you. That's very flattering."

Your resume begins Once Upon A Time...I like that!

"You haven't enjoyed the Yule log till you've enjoyed it in high def."

"Confounded spell checker... never catches anything."

"You don't need a duck call. I can just download this Find-a-Fowl app."

"Perhaps in my next life I'll be a jpeg."

Ironing Punctuation

Robot Painter

DVD extras - the making of the boxed set.

"Moby Richard by Herman Melville" "Wonderful! Not sure about the title—let's discuss editor."

"We're making a video of us watching TV so we can watch ourselves watching TV...later."