Re: Friday not-really funny but something to think about

Subject: Re: Friday not-really funny but something to think about
From: Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:44:16 -0800

Jessica Weissman wrote:

And I'm John Sladek, who was a technical writer and science fiction
author. Check out his "Bugs" for one of the few novels written, in
part, about technical writing. Do you know of more?

- Jessica

I wannabe Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first technical manual:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chaucer-astro.html

Nice pix of his target technology:

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ3820

Friday on you,

Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com
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