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Kindlenap

You checked out or rented an eBook on your e-reader, but you haven't finished as the due date approaches. You disconnect the reader from the internet (airplane mode, for example) so Kindle can't erase the expired book from your reader until you finish: you are Kindlenapping the book.

Damn, I still haven't gotten to the climax of *50 Shades Darker* and I have to work tomorrow. I'll turn off the Wi-Fi so I can Kindlenap it until I have some alone time next weekend.

by burnt sox November 28, 2021

boomer space

Putting two spaces after a period. Even though every reference written after 1995 says that it's now one space after a period, your 60-year-old CEO still insists that when he was walking uphill, barefoot, in the snow, with one typewriter under each arm, his secretary put two spaces after a period and, dammit, you will, too, as long as you work here.

My soul dies just a little more every time I put that second space after a period, but the boss says we have to use the Boomer space.

My soul dies just a little more every time I put that second space after a period, but the boss says we have to use the Boomer space.{space}{space}

by burnt sox December 10, 2021