{"id":85,"date":"2008-05-30T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T07:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-05-29T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T04:09:12","slug":"tech-writing-boners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Tech Writing Boners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, boys: A <em>boner<\/em> is a mistake. Sure, giggle. You enjoy it. But you might want to save some of that laughter for some of the great, written boners of the high tech writing field.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe most famous written mistake is telling someone to store information on their computer&#8217;s <code>hard dick drive<\/code>. (Honestly, I have trouble writing <em>hard dick<\/em> because my fingers always want to write <em>hard disk<\/em> instead. I suppose I&#8217;ll never fulfill my dreams of writing porn . . .)<\/p>\n<p>I remember way back, early in my writing career. It was standard procedure back then (in WordPerfect for DOS) to do a search through a document specifically looking for the word <code>dick<\/code> when I meant to write <code>disk<\/code>. A cursory Google search shows 19,000 web pages with the text <em>hard dick drive<\/em>, though many of them are funny on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also fun to play with the word <em>widow<\/em> instead of <em>window<\/em>. For example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the most frustrating things to deal with is when a widow has slid off the screen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re not using it, you can minimize the widow to a small button.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Granted, the window\/widow swap doesn&#8217;t show the humor potential for one of my most famous gaffes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To continue, <em>lick<\/em> the button on the computer&#8217;s monitor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm. That button tastes like cherry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, boys: A boner is a mistake. Sure, giggle. You enjoy it. But you might want to save some of that laughter for some of the great, written boners of the high tech writing field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}