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Apr. 10th, 2024 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Somebody actually did THIS??
Are they insane?
[Apparently an amateur writer decided to fabricate quotes from various famous/best-selling authors promoting their work. And got caught. Because of course you would. The author found out, and wrote about it in his blog - telling folks - don't do this. ETA: read the comments - apparently the poor amateur writer may have been scammed by an online review site - that told them that Scalzi had reviewed their work and provided that quote.]
I googled and apparently this isn't as rare a thing as one may think?
"Jonah Lehrer has resigned from his brief tenure as a staff writer at The New Yorker after he admitted to fabricating, and then lying about, Bob Dylan quotes used in his latest book, Imagine: How Creativity Works."
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/07/jonah-lehrer-resigns-from-the-new-yorker-fabricating-bob-dylan-quotes.html
Hmm, considering subscribing to the New Yorker again or New York Magazine.
2. Taking tomorrow and Friday off.
Mother: Why?
Me: Doctor's appointment, I don't want to deal with the rain and the doctor and the commute.
Mother: Oh, and Friday?
Me: Supposed to rain. Am bored at work. It's a way to make the time go faster.
There's a lot of steps on the commute. About 16 flights or so it seems.
At least I get exercise?
Are they insane?
[Apparently an amateur writer decided to fabricate quotes from various famous/best-selling authors promoting their work. And got caught. Because of course you would. The author found out, and wrote about it in his blog - telling folks - don't do this. ETA: read the comments - apparently the poor amateur writer may have been scammed by an online review site - that told them that Scalzi had reviewed their work and provided that quote.]
I googled and apparently this isn't as rare a thing as one may think?
"Jonah Lehrer has resigned from his brief tenure as a staff writer at The New Yorker after he admitted to fabricating, and then lying about, Bob Dylan quotes used in his latest book, Imagine: How Creativity Works."
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/07/jonah-lehrer-resigns-from-the-new-yorker-fabricating-bob-dylan-quotes.html
Hmm, considering subscribing to the New Yorker again or New York Magazine.
2. Taking tomorrow and Friday off.
Mother: Why?
Me: Doctor's appointment, I don't want to deal with the rain and the doctor and the commute.
Mother: Oh, and Friday?
Me: Supposed to rain. Am bored at work. It's a way to make the time go faster.
There's a lot of steps on the commute. About 16 flights or so it seems.
At least I get exercise?