{"id":1090,"date":"2011-06-21T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:22","slug":"ocd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/06\/ocd\/","title":{"rendered":"OCD"},"content":{"rendered":"

OCD stands for obsessive-compulsive disorder.\u00a0 Although my wife claims I display this in many ways, the only OCD trait I’m aware of is my desire to right-justify<\/a> my lines of text. In fact, I choose words carefully (and edit them after the fact) to produce the least-ragged right margin that is possible.\u00a0 I did this well before the arrival of word processors — I recall adjusting the hand-lettered text in my high-school underground newspaper to this effect.<\/p>\n

I also hate it when a sentence ends with a single word at the beginning of a line.\u00a0 I look for ways to add or subtract text so that a sentence ends at the end of the line or, barring that, so the sentence continues with three or four words into the next line.\u00a0 It’s better that way.<\/p>\n

These requirements were relatively easy to satisfy by hand or at the typewriter, but it is a bit harder to achieve this on the web, given that the reader can change his font size at will.\u00a0 But I can’t control that.\u00a0 If it looks good on my screen, then it goes out the door.<\/p>\n

Maybe this stems from my childhood attempts to imitate Charles Schulz<\/a>, drawing cartoons and fitting words into speech balloons.\u00a0 In any case, I confess: I make function follow form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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