In which my job is occasionally totally awesome: - I picked up a phone call this morning and the man on the other end said, "I'm trying to find out how to spell something. Y'know those worms that live in the water and bore into ships? I think they're called 'teredo'. Do you know how to spell that?" (As a matter of fact, I do. Hurrah for sounding things out as though they are words in my high school Spanish class!) - A lady came in who's visiting from Arizona and wanted to know if she could get... read more