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!'

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

Campaign for Plain English

Punctuation Police

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Evolution.

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

"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."

Mozart on a computer,

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"

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

"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

"Various entrances to the gates of Hell."

Mark Zuckerberg

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

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

With the popularity of spell-checkers, many people are turning to the new speech-checkers.

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Still suffering from writer's block?"

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."

DVD extras - the making of the boxed set.

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

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

"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."