Tavie

Website: www.tavie.com
bio:Now see here...
website:http://tavie.com

Recent Actions
Comment Threads

Recent Actions

Commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
Don't disagree at all. I just don't think that "Indian English" can be said to be "better" than American English. It is, however, fun - we've all taken to saying "I have done the needful" and "Please revert" around the...
Commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
This depends on your definition of "English" and "better". I work closely with highly intelligent, educated Indian coworkers every day, and their version of English deviates greatly from the English that I speak and hear spoken every day in NYC....
Commented on Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009
Rest in peace. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RajNvJ3bCU...
Commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
This page has a collection of blog posts from NYC bloggers that were written on 9/11 about the attack. (Mine is on there under tavie.com) I repost my story on my blog every year as my own personal way of...
Favorited Production notes from new Kids in the Hall series on Boing Boing
Commented on Production notes from new Kids in the Hall series
McKinney is a vision in green. Thanks, Cory!...
Commented on Rich NY town tries to shut down children's library because poor kids might use it
@ryuthrowsstuff A lot of times it boils down to White Folks without accents get to use the library. LOL, so the residents don't get to use the library either? Them Long-Guy-linders have some of the wackiest accents I've ever heard!...
Commented on Tom Hanks trash can
Hey I've seen that! It was at some hipster pizzeria... made me laugh....
Commented on Massive dance-number wedding entrance
I'm with @14 Anonymous & @36 JayTKay I cried and laughed. This is one of the happiest things I've ever seen. Really loved this. Was in a down mood and this cheered me up. Thanks, The Boing....
Commented on Richard Metzger's Tell It Like It Is Review of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
Not enough Alan Rickman in the movie. What we did get was glorious, though....
Commented on Dog sleep disorders in Disney films
My fascination with sleep orders combined with my love of Disney films = the perfect Boing Boing post....
Commented on Pages Books in Toronto to close
Oh, that SUCKS. I'm a big fan of that place. I found some real gems the last time I was there. (Their $5 bin yielded me TWO excellent reads.) And I love the decor. Just such a cool, cool bookstore....
Commented on iPhone app lets you squash Wall Streeters
You can do this for free. Just align their head between your thumb and forefinger... (instructional video here.)...
Commented on Fatal monorail collision at Walt Disney World
Oh my god....
Commented on Michael Jackson likes what he looks like and doesn't have to change at all.
Nice clip Cory ;)...
Commented on RIP Michael Jackson
Rest in peace, Captain Eo. (I prefer to remember him this way.)...
Commented on Pixar Grants Dying Kid's Last Wish to See "Up"
@2 - I cried. But well done, Pixar....
Favorited Awesome, infringing music video made from 80s brat pack flicks is band's "best video" on Boing Boing
Commented on Mickey-ears skull ring
@16, what's not healthy about it?...
Commented on Moist, and other words people dislike
@ 51 - seconded. Smegma is the worst word. I want to throw up just thinking of it....
Commented on Rampant boobies to reign at Disneyland!
@21 Empirechick - me too - especially in that kind of heat! Plus, some of us would give ourselves black eyes......
Commented on Rampant boobies to reign at Disneyland!
(Above NSFW at all and covered with icky porn ads, by the way.)...
Commented on Rampant boobies to reign at Disneyland!
Whoops - Real Flash Mountain link. NSFW...
Commented on Rampant boobies to reign at Disneyland!
@1 I CANNOT believe you printed this and then did not have the actual photos!!!! At least one. sniff Enjoy (I think I just posted this without signing in, sorry.)...
Favorited Blog about vintage kids' books on Boing Boing
Favorited Emergency (MC) Hammer on Boing Boing
Favorited Speeding bullet stopped by hair weave on Boing Boing
Favorited Emailing while asleep on Boing Boing
Favorited How are you coping with collapse-anxiety? on Boing Boing
Favorited Obama's Elf (18 second video pun fun) on Boing Boing

Recent Actions from Tavie

Comment Threads

thehoundoflove commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
This reminds me of the scene in Some Kind of Monster where Metallica decide they no longer need the services of their group therapist. He doesn't agree and thinks maybe they should talk about it....
Teresa Nielsen Hayden commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
"I've generally benefitted from copyeditors who know the difference, but on the rare occasion where I've had to deal with a couple hundred pages of redlines by a copyeditor who thought that he was my co-author, it's been quite a struggle." --?...
bauds commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
Teachers typically use red ink for editing. Editors use blue ink. Perhaps the editor here wasn't taught that procedure.~...
Teresa Nielsen Hayden commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
Most trade book publishers switched over to out-of-house freelancers a long time ago. It worked better at first than it does now. If someone has what it takes to be a copyeditor -- they're definitely a type -- they can learn the mechanics and procedures from books or classes. What they don't learn is the kind of judgement you pick up by working alongside other copyeditors. That reliable judgement makes a big difference. I'm not saying the Toronto Star doesn't need to do this. I'm saying they're cutting muscle, not fat....
Plutonium57 commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
In the end the demise of the copy desk, the craft of copyediting, will be seen as one more piece of structure falling off the Titanic of newspaperdom as it goes down in the icy waters of the cyber age. I spent nine years on a night desk copyediting on a midsize paper in the Northeast and loved the work and the camaraderie of the rim--especially the late-night bull sessions after deadline, waiting for the papers to come up from the pressroom. But alas, the ship is sinking and the outlook is colder than the North Atlantic in February. I...

Responses to Comments from Tavie

Tavie

Recent Actions

Comment Threads

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States and other countries.