The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by SKapusniak:

This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article.

Aha, I recognise that one! It's straight out of the 'Cargo Cultists Corporate Management Handbook'.

- Real (Important, serious, big!) Organisations do X.
- Therefore we must do X, firmly disregarding whether its actually useful or helpful, or even relevant to us.
- Thus proving we (irrelevant, small, amateurs) are TOO a Real Organisation!

I joined my current employer very near the beginning, and that sort of thing was pretty much the epitome of the company culture back in the day. I suspect it might be a known hazard of startups where the founders are drawn from a big companies middle-management and their higher ranked engineering or technical people. It took years for that sort of thing to die down to the general background level of occasional stupid, rather than being an elephant in the room of an unstated guiding principle of operation.

I see no reason why gay writers should have denied themselves the use of this cliche in bad online fiction

Possibly the experience of confusing themselves multiple times in the first paragraph over which *particular* he or she it is they're referring to, when they've got two of the same sex involved as -- given this is badfic -- they'll be no other differentiating features, puts them off?

Rob #35: LOL on that step 23.

8. (In a rotating circular space station) See changes on pages [list of thirty-odd nonsequential pages]. There was a series of errors where characters used "up" and "down" to describe inward and outward movements along the ship's equatorial plane.

I'm not exactly sure why that particular one makes me shudder the most, but somehow it does.

In addition to what Matt said, there's a 'More' button on the Find and Replace dialog box, which reveals a checkbox allowing to use wildcards in search expressions, and also a dropdown thingy for setting up what formating you want to search and replace from/to.

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