Writing Errors

Oh my. I love editing other people's things.

I'm editing topic guides right now. The content is mostly sufficient, but there are a few things where... the rules aren't always obvious, but they're there.

1. Semicolon! It's not a comma. And a comma is not a semicolon. When making a list, separating each item with a semicolon normally doesn't work. Separating every other item with a semicolon looks whimsical.
2. They're doesn't equal their doesn't equal there.
3. As important as they are, the world's oceans are not the World's Oceans.
4. Wikipedia is great. Wikipedia is awesome. Don't cite Wikipedia. I guarantee they'll use it for their research. Cite something more specific, please.

That being said, I'm really looking forward to some of the topics. There's one for Midwivery. And with that, I'm going to keep mum.

Twilight Zone

So they're having a marathon, didn't you hear? The sci-fi channel has basically gone down the tubes, but at least they have two days of the year where they aren't awful. (Point that they jumped the shark? Arguably when Farscape went off the air, or else when I was watching TV with Chris and Ian (they introduced me to tabletop roleplaying) freshman year before a session and there was a plane going down a runway with perfectly stacked barrels of oil. The plane ran into it, and destruction ensued. If only they hadn't stacked those next to the runway!)

I've only been watching a few episodes, but the best one was the one where William F'in Shatner is a superstitious man in a newlywed couple compelled to ask a penny fortune teller about everything. It keeps giving vague answers... and he trusts it because it was correct about a job promotion.