Phillips Design

For Christmas I got a great book: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

I’ve been wanting to read it but just hadn’t gotten around to getting it, so it was the perfect gift. So perfect in fact, that I finished reading it by the next evening.

It’s got everything; great characters, violence, Nazis, torture, sex, financial intrigue, computer hacking, etc. It takes place in Sweden. I can hardly wait to see the movie.

It’s only got one problem – It takes place in Sweden.

Or put another way: “It tekes plece-a in Svedee.”

While I was reading it I kept thinking, “Wait! These guys are-a Sveedes. You-a know, dey tok in Sveedeish Chef accent!” Yah, it demn neer drufe me craazy.

For example:

Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

Becomes:

Ermegeddun ves yesterdey, tudey ve-a hefe-a a sereeuoos prublem. Bork, bork, bork!

Wonder how they’ll handle that in the movie?

Edgewood Partners Insurance Company (a.k.a. Epic) had just moved into the top two floors of a modern office space in downtown San Francisco. They needed help with an internal project – decorating their newly remodeled facility. Read more…

Sometimes it’s about the details.

Good. Then we can agree your action has changed the course of the universe in some infinitesimal but irrevocable way. To remove the croutons would not remove the action. See?

But are the consequences of overlooking such details… So. Absolutely. Unforgivable?

Possibly.

Yelping With Cormac

(One of the best reads on the internet.)