why you should never trust auto-correct, part the eight hundred millionth

Your computer is NOT your friend. Sure, most of the time it does nice things for you, but secretly it's biding its time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to make you FAIL. *Always* remember that. For example, a friend of mine got the following email from customer service at a company (actual names replaced by obvious stand-ins):

From: Customer Service Agent
Date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:11 AM
Subject: RE: Order never received
To: Friend

Hi Friend.

I will email the supplier for a lost item claim. I will get back to you
as soon as I hear from them.

I do apologize for the incontinence.

Thanks.
Customer Service Agent

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(Also, your computer is playing chicken with your data. Back it up.)

Jo Walton's "Among Others"

I read it, and honestly, a lot of other people's reviews of it are really ruining the experience for me, especially the way in which people are fixating on it as championing the idea* that fandom is a welcoming refuge. Because I take issue with that; fandom is quite often hostile and exclusionary, and I think the extent to which fandom insists on wholly embracing such myths about itself undermines our potential to actually *be* those things.

I did enjoy the book, though.

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* which it doesn't necessarily.