Finding a DDO

| September 9, 2004

This being the political season, we can expect to see the Suspiciously Timed Release (STR) of Documents of Dubious Origin (DDO) more and more as we proceed towards election day. The memoranda used by CBS certainly qualify as DDO. Clearly, “finding” old documents (memoranda, files, photos and so on) is an activity in which we […]

Superscript

| September 9, 2004

No typewriter I’ve ever seen has a superscript “th”, as used in such words as “187th.” Nor, might I add, did any typewriter have a superscript “st” (as in “121st“), “nd” (“102nd“) or “rd” (“123rd“). Back then, we just rolled the platen half a line up or down for a super- or sub-script. Just sayin’, […]