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So it goes
Mar. 31st, 2014 10:03 amIt started raining Friday and continued raining all but non-stop through Sunday night. There were a couple hours of quiet with grey skies in there, but mostly there was rain. Enough to prompt a flood advisory.
So what did it start doing at dawn?
Yep. And it hasn't stopped snowing since.
In other trivia that hasn't been willing to leave my hind-brain, I was reminded of the importance of good proofreading yet again when thumbing through a 208-page, full-color, glossy "Destination Planning Guide" to promote Denver as a convention site.
On page 9, the introductory copy claims "The user-friendly Colorado Convention Center has only two levels: all 100,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, 50,000 and a 35,000 sq. ft. ballrooms; and 5,000-seat theatre on one level; and 584,000 sq. ft. of contiguous exhibit space on the other."
Pages 36-45 have the floor plans, starting out with the statement that "The Colorado Convention Center consists of just three levels." The 584,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space is one one level, one floor up from street entrances. The street level has the 100,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, and access to the 5,000-seat theatre. And sunken below street level are the two ballrooms. The maps bear that out.
Alas, my main takeaway is that they don't even know how many levels their convention center has. And if they don't know that, why should I believe any of the other numbers in the guide? Why should I believe they'd be able to pay the necessary attention to the details of my meeting or event?
It's harsh of me, I know. It's an error in the copy that didn't get caught in whatever proofreading they did do. Everyone working on the guide is human, and, Ghu knows, I've made plenty of publication mistakes of my own. It's printed, it's done, move along. Yet the guide certainly made an impression on me, and it's far from the one they wanted it to make. I wonder how many other people that's true of.
So what did it start doing at dawn?
Yep. And it hasn't stopped snowing since.
In other trivia that hasn't been willing to leave my hind-brain, I was reminded of the importance of good proofreading yet again when thumbing through a 208-page, full-color, glossy "Destination Planning Guide" to promote Denver as a convention site.
On page 9, the introductory copy claims "The user-friendly Colorado Convention Center has only two levels: all 100,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, 50,000 and a 35,000 sq. ft. ballrooms; and 5,000-seat theatre on one level; and 584,000 sq. ft. of contiguous exhibit space on the other."
Pages 36-45 have the floor plans, starting out with the statement that "The Colorado Convention Center consists of just three levels." The 584,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space is one one level, one floor up from street entrances. The street level has the 100,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, and access to the 5,000-seat theatre. And sunken below street level are the two ballrooms. The maps bear that out.
Alas, my main takeaway is that they don't even know how many levels their convention center has. And if they don't know that, why should I believe any of the other numbers in the guide? Why should I believe they'd be able to pay the necessary attention to the details of my meeting or event?
It's harsh of me, I know. It's an error in the copy that didn't get caught in whatever proofreading they did do. Everyone working on the guide is human, and, Ghu knows, I've made plenty of publication mistakes of my own. It's printed, it's done, move along. Yet the guide certainly made an impression on me, and it's far from the one they wanted it to make. I wonder how many other people that's true of.
