Errata is a web journal written by Robert Davis who has neither spent a night in a ghost town nor pulled a turnip from the earth. He doesn't even know if turnips grow in the ground. Perhaps on trees, like candy corn. Therefore, Errata is a non-commercial project.

Observation #1: It may be appropriate, when leaving a movie theater, to say "mysterious."

Observation #2: It may be appropriate, when leaving a movie theater, to say "mysterious" at the top of your lungs. Bring your eyebrows together before you say it. Effective!

Observation #3: Same for books. Even at libraries.

There is a prize for people who correctly guess the thing about Metropolis, Nevada.

Except where the text specifically states otherwise, Errata's vagaries are indicated vaguely and its authors are indistinct in the traditional way of the Internet, except where the authors lay claim to their work. In some cases Robert Davis lays claim to work that is not his own but has been abandoned like so many ghost towns. Except where held presently, fistfuls of dirt are suspended via dispersal, or dispersed via suspension (in the air), and thus their dissolution is their transcendence, or their transcendence is their dissolution. And yet our eyes tear, and our vision is impaired, demonstrating for the umpteenth time that one entity's gain is another's fit of sneezes. Except where indicated, storms shall outlive the clay upon which they rain, unless storms are improperly delimited by their clouds, which dissolve, rather than by their inevitable return. Thus the clay loses, unless the clay is said to own the storm, to use it to make itself heavy, to make itself cling to white garments, refuse dispersal, cake upon the facades of abandoned buildings, and sit like Man [sic] upon the earth where it is pelted by a storm that it owns. In which case the clay still loses, if you ask us.

Some of the above is legally binding and should be considered a mental contract between Errata and those upon whom it acts. The bit about the prize should be considered an overstatement insofar as prizes differ from dirt and prize dispersal differs from dirt dispersal. Please recall that ownership is a weight and, therefore, hope that you do not win the prize.

One day Errata or its representatives will call upon you for a favor. It is expected that you will hop-to without delay.

You may contact Robert Davis by email unless it's about the rock that was thrown in anger. The rock is more properly called a clod. Why do you continue to raise the topic?

10 June 2004

Audible incentive to produce web content proves to be deterrent

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Rarely do we use this space to correct errors that occur in the confines of our offices, since in theory they affect only us. However, today we report on an error made by a former member of our IT staff who some months ago rigged a device to sound a tone in our office when a specified period has elapsed without updates to this site. As designed, the tone becomes gradually louder, longer, and more piercing as updates remain absent. The installation of this device has proven to be an incredible error. Earlier this week the tone reached such an otherworldly cry that our intern, after watching his dog run circles around his desk for three hours straight, was heard to mutter something about slipping the surly bonds of earth before he thrust his fist through a wall. It was not our favorite wall, nor our favorite intern, frankly, but we must admit that this hardly matters. Somewhere between the last update posted to this site and the hole in the wall, the tone ceased to be an incentive and became a serious hindrance to the writing process. Finally, the electrical people disconnected us from the grid and we snipped the red wire but not the green, dear God, not the green.

and so

We apologize for this error insofar as it has affected your enjoyment of this site, and we thank you for your patience as we recover from our lack of sleep, our power outage, the loss of an intern, and the loss of the spot where our photo of Terrence Stamp usually hangs with prominence.

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