Well, when you all play classical piano for fourteen years until something akin to arthritis reduces the circulation in your hands, and then you attempt to type at your usual speed of 70 + words per minute after spending nearly an hour in near-frozen weather, you'll have a couple typos, too, thank-you-very-much.
No, I'm not really all that touchy about it. Nobody is perfect. I'm just being snarky.
Have any of you read "Ender's Shadow"? Orson Scott Card. FAWESOME.
Anwai, there is a scene where this kid points out a logical fallacy made by the teacher. The teacher, of course, did this on purpose to CATCH someone trying to catch him in a logical fallacy. The teacher then made a fool of the kid, leading to much tense humour.
The point behind it all? Pointing out someone else's miniscule typographical errors does not make you any more intelligent than the person sitting next to you. In fact, it makes him quite a bit wiser than you, since he/she decided to keep that information to him/herself, store it for later use, maybe, instead of making it widely available to the public. Furthermore, it wastes the teacher's time AND yours, because you show yourself to be the kid who is used to being smarter than everyone else in the room, and now the teacher will be biased against you, which will alter his judgments about you (and he will have to second-guess himself EVERY time, just to be sure that he doesn't act on something simply because you p*** him off), and less time will be spent in the USEFUL sharing of information. He's here to teach you. Not to take your flack.
Always ALWAYS give out less information than you have. ALWAYS make sure you take away more than you give away. Use your resources, keep your own counsel, and deprive your competitors of those resources. Make your resources available, and you make him your equal. Tsk tsk tsk tsk....
Ahhhh, that felt good.
Sorry, guys. I have been needing to get out at least one good, long post all WEEK!!! It's nice that I got to do it in a Card-based sermon.
No, you didn't have to read all that.
G'day, my duckies!
I'm away to-night.