by Val Swisher | Sep 7, 2013
A number of years ago, I built a house. Well, to be specific, I didn’t build the house. I had a house built for me. One of the important choices I had to make was the selection of who was going to do the work. The sheer number of different tradespeople you need...
by Val Swisher | Aug 24, 2013
Ahhh review comments. Every writer and translator knows the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat when it comes to receiving them. It’s been a while since I had to do anything but provide review comments, and I have to say that I haven’t particularly...
by Val Swisher | Aug 15, 2013
Today, Seth Godin’s daily blog post (which I love by the way) is called “An end of books.” Seth talks about how printed books are doomed and the entire ecosystem that surrounds them is doomed, too. For example, the bookstore is a goner because they...
by Val Swisher | Aug 7, 2013
Ever notice how different regions of the United States have their own, unique dialects? In her July 29th post, Arika Okrent of Mental Floss describes three of them: Appalachian “a-prefixing” Southern American English “liketa” African-American...
by Val Swisher | Jun 23, 2013
I get a great feeling of satisfaction when all of my laundry is done. The clothes are washed, pressed, folded, and put away. Of course, things are put away in my uber-organized, structured closet. It’s that feeling of being done with a task – sometimes a...
by Val Swisher | Jun 9, 2013
In his most recent Good Morning Geek post called Internet-Speak, Max Swisher discusses “…a new problem for modern people: We must all be bilingual and use the appropriate language depending on context. Teens in school must know how to talk online in...