Department of (BMcC[18-11-46-503]) typographical errors and textual misreadings

"An intelligent person's error beats a dolt['s] fact every day." (BMcC[18-11-46-503]; Marshall McLuhan is the message.)

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I must make more typographical errors on the Internet than anybody else in the whole world. I was driving in my what? cat. No, obviously: car. And so it goes....

• "A wise old owl once sat in an oak. The more he saw the less he spoke. The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we all be like that old bird." From my early childhood, a little plaque on my maternal grandparents' dining room wall. Maybe age 6 years? At the time I read "Brad" instead of "bird"; alas not what was intended by them. If they had intened it that way, they would have treated me like Mary and Joseph treated The Son of God, not like a farmer treats a goose for foie gras. (here)

• "The American space agency has rolled out its new giant Moon rocket for the first time.The vehicle, known as the Space Launch System (SLS), was taken to Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to conduct a dummy countdown.If that goes well, the rocket will be declared ready for a mission in which it will send an uncrewed test capsule around the Moon." I read "unscrewed" instead of "uncrewed"; I hypothesized that vehicle acceleration would keep the capsule pressed against its booster?

• "My Reader Comment to The New York Times anent Amber Heard Johnny Depp trial verdict, and, as usual, the computer has lost what I wrote so I can't find it now but it included "Leave the dead to burn -- typo: bury the dead....

• "Somehow I completely forgot that I had typed instead of "Activist": "ActiFist. A great typo for a digusting person and their ilk!

• "Critical racist theory" Obviously the political correctnesss word is: "race".

• "Boys who will be boys go on to play on their school's varsity football team and then as adults become suburban lawn mowers". Come Monday morning, do they commute to an office or stay in the garage?

• "People like Julian Assange who "leak" classified information are traitors who should be prosecuted to the foulest extent of the law." Obviously the word is: "fullest".

• "Legal must have got wind of this and things started to happen. My company was enormously wealthy but for whatever reason they decided not to do the obvious thing and just buy out that startup. Instead we had to stu to ue (try to use…) some freeware sh*tware instead of the starup' relatively sensible product. I simply could not understand the sh*tware. It was a waking nightmare for me. It may have been "Django" or maybe not, but the word sould familiar — and frightening — to me." How better to describe being beset by an utterly, hopelessly inescapable incubus than with an apposite typo: stu to ue yourself, folks!

• Alex: "You are resorting to a miss use of semantics in order to answer the question…. This would suggest you know you are wrong but it hurts your ego to accept that [/] Perhaps it is a good idea for you to try being vulnerable. Sacrificing yourself for someone else, putting your trust in another human, letting yourself feel love to the fullest"

  Bradford McCormick: "I love your comment. Can you kindly introduce me to Miss Use? Is she a good lay?"

  (Somebody replying to something I posted on Quora that offended them. Their Quora bio says they are a female crypto trader who lives in the Alps. A cryto cunt?^[1])

• "All social customs are shared happinoses aka social psychoses". (Wlifred Bion) ~ Their "shared hallucinoses" do make them happy, don't they?

• "I meant to write: "The more arms we give to Mr. Zelensky, the longer this brutal and unnecessary war will go on. He needs to be motivated to negotiate. And the word "negotiate" does not mean to discuss how the other side will effect unconditional surrender...." When proofreading what I had written I found that instead of "surrender", I had written "suicide". America's current (+2023.01.21) President Biden dearly would love💗 Dr. Putin's regime in Russia to self-destruct.

Retractions

• Masud Khan probably did some bad things.
• I have been too harsh in criticizing Mr. Andy Warhol. To the best of my knowledge, unlike Mr. Robert Venturi, he was not mean-spirited nor proactively try to destroy civilization; he merely made out on rich people's existing superficiality but didn't cause it or them. Whoever paid $145,000,000 USD for a Marilyn was not designing housing to mock the elderly. So The War Hole really is relatively innocuous; if the American people were better he might have been better?
• I often come across overly harshly about my parents. They cannot be held accountable for the harm they did to me; they probably mostly ideated they were doing the right things and in other part were frustrated with their lives and I was an available cat to kick. Long Story short: The Invisible Hand did it to them and thus transitively to me. Question: Where to draw the line? My parents? St. Paul's School, and especially one particularly destructive teacher there: Mr. Mike Rentko? Adolf Eichmann? The middle aged males who started World War I? Even if it is an infinite regress, the harm done to me is the same.
• Julian Assange. I should make a more nuanced asssessment of him. "Leaking" Wikileaks may have been a good thing to do and maybe he should not be punished. But granting the U.S. does want to prosecute him, he is a disgusting human being because he provocatively acts "entitled": When he found safety from extradition in the Ecuadoran London embassy, he should have gone out of his way to not cause them any annoyance, and lived out the rest of his life there in quiet obscurity. Instead he wanted ego gratification and got on the bleeding hearts'💗 persecuted martyrs list.

CLV

Stop here and go look at this picture: here. Click on the bee with the asterisk or the text which explains the asteriak, and you will come back here Click anywhere else in the picture, and you will caome back to the top of this page. I hadbeen trying to "win" the little game in the Ne York Times newspaper: See how many words you can make out of a given 7 different characters. Esample: YOu can form the word "h-a-b-i-t-u-a-l" from the 7 letters in hte centerof the picture. As I played, I to=hought about hte game. I decided th tone case where almos every word could be doubled by adding "i-n-g" seemed not worthy of claiming as a vistory. Ten I came across a case here I knew a word but had forgotten how to spell it. What ot do with this case? I decided to give the bee an asterisk and an explanation, and to write about it here, which involved some extra HTML coding work, too.

Often, instead of jus doing something, one can "make something more out of it"> Take it and do something your own with it. Then you are no tkjus being a consumer of consuer products but a [albeit very "small time"] creator yourself. I THINK it is ore satisfying to create than to consume.

Whatever you are doing, you can ask the question Professor Forsdale urged us to ask:

"Always ask: What is this [whetever it is] an instance of?" (Louis Forsdale)

Instead of just doing [whatever], THINK about what ou are doing in doing it: tease out the context. And even: what purpose can you make it serve that it wasn't intended for? Marcel Duchamp mos tfamously did this by exhi=bting a standard issue male urinal like you caold buy in your local plumbing supply store and sticking ita as is in a wor;d famous art exmibit, titled: "Fpountain". He had mad ethe world "bigger"; nobody had ever thought of this before, had they? One way to keep from being easily bored? If you rae bored, study it. What led you to being bored? Write about it. Are you still so bored?

I THINK ther is a "gottcha" here: If you don't know anything, all you can write about is about not knowing anything, which is not nothing but not so much, is it? The more you have experienced, the ore you have read (and the more you hav ecreated), the "richer" the context you can bring to bear in studying a message's medium. Fundaentalist religious leaders and sexually repressive parents know his well:

Q: "How are you gonna keep 'em down on the farm, after theny've ee Paree [the city of light, Paris]?"

A: Don't let them know about Psaris even if their amily is living off French welfare inside the city limits.

I do not just make an inordinate number of typographical errors, I also look to see if I can "do anything with" them.