:).

[fflo]

My phone (device) (I predict we won't call them phones a *whole* lot longer) likes to help me with apostophes & punctuation, as well as spelling. This is all very well and good, though its automatic "it's"es are going to slip by me now & then, I just know. But it also, unlike the rest of the world after HTML, seems to know the convention (I still like) of 2 spaces after an end stop. Thus if I go ahead & emoticon, and then hit two spaces, it puts a period in for me after the last emoti-character. It's tedious to clean it up. So I'm giving in. If I text you, prepare for my emoti-faces to have drooled a drop, or have a beauty mark on their chins.

I'd wager an upgrade for customizing auto-type options is low on Steve & Co.'s list.

Neighbor cat is almost done eating must-be-separate supper. I'm done with work, both day job & freelance, for today, too. Even ran an errand in there, which is good, cuz I have a handful of those to get to before my 2nd road trip of this fall. So in a minute I'll wheel my trash can back up my drive, go in & feed my kitties, and & have supper myself.

The leisurely evening at home is short, on nights like these. Makes it really hard to get to bed at a good time for getting rest. And I get up early again for these kitties tomorrow morn.

It's important to sleep. There are flu germs about.

Life lately has been living and letting live.

Okay, Lacey--- you full? Okay.

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[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

There's a funny run on Patton Oswalt's new album about how his phone auto-completes his messages based on things he's sent before, and after his wife texted him, "I love you," he absent-mindedly let the phone auto-complete his attempt to write, "I love you too," and it sent her a message that simply said, "I HATE." "So if you look at the transcript of our conversation, it would appear that it's this adorable young woman who is arguing with an insane supercomputer bent on destroying Earth."

More fun facts: someone once told me, and I choose to believe, that the convention of adding two spaces after the end of a sentence began because it was discovered that the period key on the earliest typewriters tended not to make a visible mark. So to keep everything from looking like a single slice of stream-of-consciousness run-on babble, the punctuation bluenoses of the time prescribed the double-space as a safety net until period key technology improved.

And now you know... the rest of the story!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

punctuation bluenose safety net -- whoa.

the two spaces also help if you're doing the all-lowercase chatty type mode and then want to end a sentence with an abbr., e.g. that way you get that extra visual cue, too.

i think NPR should do a new spiritual essay series entitled "Someone Once Told Me, and I Choose To Believe." don't you?

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

I agree so long as it doesn't feature Mo Rocca. I've decided that I've had my fill of him.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

yeah, i feel ya. Less Rocca!