Deanna Hoak

Via Wil McCarthy, I point you to this freaking hilarious song by Jonathon Coulton that is set to video from World of Warcraft.
The lyrics kill me. “All we want to do is eat your brains. We’re not unreasonable. I mean, no one’s going to eat your eyes.”
Oh, my. Laughing, laughing.
ETA: Jonathan Coulton’s song list can [...]

A reader asked me in the comments of a previous post about how I treat and verify foreign terms (geographic and otherwise), and the answer seemed interesting enough to move up here. The subject is very much on my mind right now anyway, because I’m copyediting Ian McDonald’s Brasyl, which is incredibly rich in foreign [...]

This article notes that physicists in Denmark have succeeded in teleporting “a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms” a distance of half a meter. I wish the article went into a bit more detail, but it is very interesting nonetheless.

Well, my notion to have people post good and bad copyediting stories flopped like a fish a few feet from the water, didn’t it? As a blogger, you wonder why something like that doesn’t work better. Because I asked for specifics? Because people don’t have both kinds of stories? Because people only want to share [...]

I know, without a doubt, that authors differ in what they want in a copyedit. I think the primary reason I’ve been able to make a living freelancing for so long is because I do a decent job, overall, at analyzing the style of each author whose work I get and determining what that author [...]

I’ve activated a new plug-in that lets you get e-mail notification when someone adds a new comment to a post on which you’ve also commented–just check the box at the bottom of the “reply” field. I always find myself forgetting to check back on other blogs to which I’ve added something, so I thought this [...]