See also (and particularly post 19):
So I’m reading Brene Brown’s book Dare to Lead and while I completely understand the audience she’s writing to if I see the word “rumble” or “circle back” one more time I may have to structurally test my drywall and Kobo with great violence.
I’ve long believed that a good grammar checking software should flag multiple uses of a phrase with: “You’ve used this expression …17… times already. Are you sure your audience isn’t sick of it?”
Every motivational self-help business writer will have to use it.
Oh, and every mystery writer will be required to run their “Crusty Misunderstood Divorced Private Eye With Issues” novel through the TediousFlag™ app as well.
@digs, those are both marvelous ideas. I want in on the development and marketing!
This is why I’m still a fan of plain ol’ paper books. When they piss me off I can throw them with zero guilt or, if particularly egregious, run over them with my car.
I bet your librarian hates you! 
Is running over books with a car the newest data compression method?
Some books in my collection (I’m looking at you Galaxy 666) could use it.
I haven’t read a whole goodreads review in years. This was the delightful exception.
You could quit your day job and host “The MST3K of Books” Show…!
It might have been, but my roommates at the time took pity on the book and threw it in the dumpster when I was at work. Still mad about that twelve years later.
Library books get bounced back into the return slot with great force. I’m not paying for crap. Anymore.
Well, I did start a book blog…
Maybe it’s been mentioned already, but I’m becoming disproportionately annoyed by people who want to “tease” data out of a set.
“Call yourself data? You’re just a bunch of noughts and ones. This set’s for real data, you know”
Do not taunt Happy Fun Data.
Apparently, “P-Hacking” is making its way out of the scientific arena into general discourse.
*it happens when you tease the data to distraction.
I’m kinda guilty of this, but only out of comic purposes.
Last week, I told my bosses that I’d started “appending” a spreadsheet, by “data mining” “streams” between two systems by “air gapping” from one database to the other, in order to “tease” out a “realization” on what that data is telling us.
In other words, I started adding rows to update a old spreadsheet, to forecast trends.
Tripler
Helping put the ‘mental’ in “governmental” since 2000.
Here are the last three tracking updates I got for a shipment. See if you can guess their chronological sequence
- *Shipment is being transferred to the requested destination
Shipment has been received at CARGO DELIVERY TEAM
Shipment has been received at DISTRIBUTION EXTENSION TEAM
I’m guessing it’s in reverse chronological order?
That’s what Amazon do, at least in the UK, and the terminology makes sense:
11:49 AM
Delivered
London, GB
10:50 AM
Out for delivery
Bromley-by-Bow, GB
6:25 AM
Package arrived at the final delivery station
Bromley-by-Bow, GB
1:53 AM
Package departed an Amazon facility
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire GB
To be fair, you trained with the the best at it, at our fine National Defense Establishment.
I still have so many acronyms memorized that I can’t speak in any professional encounter without using two of them. I mean, we have our own jargon on this side of the fence, but it’s just too easy to slip in a “COB” or “TLDR” into a conversation.
Hell, since we span time zones, I’m still pissing people off by using ‘Zulu Time’ (or if I’m feeling nice, ‘Universal Coordinated Time’).
Tripler
The time is now 1838.
At what point, after taking it off the shelf, is it NOT being transferred to the requested destination?