OMG.

Office of Mutilated Grammar?

You know who else thinks it stands for Federal Drug Agency? KIDS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.

This is a horribly written article. I hate when we get shit like this. If it weren't about a new drug, I'm sure we would have rejected it. In the abstract she says she used one set of search terms in MEDLINE, but in the article itself, she lists a whole other set of search terms she says she used.

Way to go, lady. I really trust your research.

Why was this not routed through the technical editor?

Because the technical editors keep getting laid off due to budget cuts?

t sorry, not closing the bitter tag any time soon

What if male superheroes were posed like Wonder Woman? [link]

Bless that artist, and bless you for linking it. It's the perfect rebuttal to the "but male superheroes have stylized bodies, tooo!" whine.

Ugh. I really cannot focus on this document with the noises around me. I wonder if I can go home and work there?

As well as everything else, I have to pull the "solutioning" out of the requirements. And that's going to require juggling.

pertinent to today's discussion:

captchas to keep idiots out of comment threads -

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Good one, Frank. I sort of feel like I melted down some in the thread today. But it used to be worse, although I've never been a slammer.

When I worked for the Florida Dental Association sometimes we'd get calls for the Food and Drug Administration which often led to some confusing and interesting conversations.

Okay, they seriously want us to update our voicemail outgoing message with the date EVERY DAY?

OMG I hate that so much. I dread the day they require us to to that. As it is, I don't even update my VM for my regular day off (every other Friday). But then very little I do is time-sensitive.

Because the technical editors keep getting laid off due to budget cuts?

True! But in this case, I know the tech editor, and I would have heard if he got laid off. He's still there, but I'm damned if I know why they're not having him review this stuff.

ION, I talked to HR again. Apparently all three veterans on the list above me have to get knocked off the list as unqualified before they can reach me. Because if there's even one vet on the qualified list, they're supposed to pick them.

I think I need to start keeping a bottle of whiskey in my office for this.

Philip Marlowe did it. Of course, one way or another he ended up unconscious once a week, so there are reasons it's not "What would Marlowe do?"