A Peerless Typo

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I was searching through some archived documents at work yesterday, and came across a gem of a typo from the “project organisation and communication plan” section of an old grant application.
Apparently, the applicants are anticipating frequent pier-to-pier communication to facilitate the coordination of research efforts at different sites.
They specifically mentioned Skype and iChat as suitable pier-to-pier communication systems, but I had an immediate mental image of a PI trying to submit a paper to Nature by facing Cromer Pier with a pair of semaphore flags.

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5 Responses to A Peerless Typo

  1. Brian Derby says:
    August 26, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    However, they may have been refering to the real pier-to-pier communication system that ran in Brighton.

  2. Cath Ennis says:
    August 26, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Hmm, I wonder why that thing never caught on?!

  3. Ian Brooks says:
    August 26, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    LOL, we’re so web2.0 us scientists huh?

  4. Henry Gee says:
    August 26, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    Hmm, I wonder why that thing never caught on?!
    Probably because one of the two piers kept burning down.
    an immediate mental image of a PI trying to submit a paper to Nature by facing Cromer Pier with a pair of semaphore flags.
    Snort.

  5. Cath Ennis says:
    August 26, 2008 at 11:49 pm

    Heh – good stuff!

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