Found mine the first night, also found format mistake I made for no apparent reason?It can happen to the best. A friend of mine last year worked on his item for six months, and still did the same thing as you.
I have also decided the last minute panic to make it a bit more interesting may have been a mistake!
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When I started working for a semi-pro magazine in college the editors made sure we all knew about an important tradition and why it was the way it was.
The executive board ALWAYS carefully decided what typo was going to be left in the magazine for each issue. The reason was from folklore and we all knew it was folklore because no one knew the name of the publisher for sure and the story was not just in our magazine. Many publishers had the story, but not all used our approach.
You see there was an editor of a big publishing house that decided that he was going to run a printing of a book without a single typo. So the gauntlet was down and the editors and proofreaders went through the copy over and over until at last they were sure that there wasn't a single typo anywhere in the book.
It was in the title on the cover. All 10,000 copies of the first run.
So we made sure that we KNEW where that typo was going to show up. =P Unfortunately this doesn't quite work for something as short as this.
On a side note. I also have not seen my entry yet. I've seen my son's once and my wife's twice.
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When I started working for a semi-pro magazine in college the editors made sure we all knew about an important tradition and why it was the way it was.
The executive board ALWAYS carefully decided what typo was going to be left in the magazine for each issue. The reason was from folklore and we all knew it was folklore because no one knew the name of the publisher for sure and the story was not just in our magazine. Many publishers had the story, but not all used our approach.
You see there was an editor of a big publishing house that decided that he was going to run a printing of a book without a single typo. So the gauntlet was down and the editors and proofreaders went through the copy over and over until at last they were sure that there wasn't a single typo anywhere in the book.
It was in the title on the cover. All 10,000 copies of the first run.
So we made sure that we KNEW where that typo was going to show up. =P Unfortunately this doesn't quite work for something as short as this.
On a side note. I also have not seen my entry yet. I've seen my son's once and my wife's twice.
Interesting story. Reminds me of the 3.5 book from Mongoose, Ultimate Magic. I have a copy of the first printing. One day I was idly glancing at my gaming shelf and realized that the title on the spine actually read "Utimate Magic." Ever since I pointed that out to the rest of the gaming group, that's what we called it. We even refer to the Pathfinder book of the same name as Utimate Magic.
But yeah, errors will slip by no matter what. It's best though if a person gets a chance to open the book before finding one. First impressions are important.
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Ask any newspaper editor, and they'll tell you they always look carefully to make sure the "L" doesn't get dropped in "public." Not much more embarrassing than that seeing print.
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My employer made a huge acquisition about a year ago, and the balances in all their G/L accounts got loaded with the Description 'Trail Balance' (instead of Trial Balance). Once that got posted, every adjustment to the beginning balance had to be posted with that exact same error, so that reports would total properly.
So now every single time someone new needs to run a report breaking out numbers between the two companies, we have to make sure they misspell their parameters appropriately.
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Garrett, lots of good (as in, "I'm not responsible for that!") ones out there. I just saw a Florida paper used "Here" instead of "Hear" (or was it vice-versa) in a large-point headline before fixing it for a second edition; and I know exactly how that can happen too.
In my paper, I just caught us talking about a "Cataholic" school in first edition. I figured all the students really liked felines there.
Ask any newspaper editor, and they'll tell you they always look carefully to make sure the "L" doesn't get dropped in "public." Not much more embarrassing than that seeing print.
I once coordinated an art installation and a park police officer wrote us up with a warning for public mischief and forgot a key letter. Framed and hung up in the sculpture profs studio now I think.
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Maaan I am so lucky/stupid. I almost DeathQuakered myself through a combination of formatting omission and one of my particular item-writing habits...
See folks? Not even the veterans are immune. :p
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The wait is adding more sense of anticipation to the list of things I am waiting on. Not only am I waiting for the results of the voting here, but there are some jobs I sent resumes into that I won't hear back from until about the time voting ends. One of which is a Paizo job!