[lbo-talk] looking for tech writers in bay area

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>You have my sympathy.  Fortunately most of the business writing I've done 
>>has been for general audiences.  Whenever I've visited the outskirts of 
>>technical or legal writing it has been a punishing experience.  I have 
>>really come to view this stuff as performing unnatural acts on the English 
>>language.
>
>Somebody's gotta do it, and it should be done well. I finally took the 
>plunge and upgraded my Mac from System 9.x to OS X. It's amazing how much 
>modern software does for you, setting things up with little or no human 
>intervention, with onscreen help written in clear English. You hardly need 
>any documentation. The hardest part is reprogramming your own reflexes - 
>re-learning movements that had become almost instinctual. But there's not 
>much you can do about that.

A few sessions of electroshock therapy should do the trick.

Carl