Andrea Rosen.



I live and work in New York, New York. You can find me all over the internet, like here, here, or here and ask me something here.


Nice things people have said about me:


"You were deemed 'good to have around.'" -a coworker


"You look like you should be in a catalog selling Brooklyn." -a roommate


"You think you're a lot funnier than you actually are." -an ex-boyfriend


"Don't put this in your blog." -my mother
November 28
dianakimball: Small pleasures: discovering that iOS 5 adds an en dash to the keyboard. Press-and-hold the hyphen and you’re there. As a heavy user of em dashes (which have been available on the iOS keyboard for a while), I’ve on occasion found myself wishing for an en dash to round out the set. According to Wikipedia, the en dash can be used “to contrast values, or illustrate a relationship between two things.” More commonly, it’s used “to indicate a closed range of values, meaning a range with clearly defined and non-infinite upper and lower boundaries. This may include ranges such as those between dates, times, or numbers.” I had no idea there was even an em dash option — but I have to say, I’m lazy with the en dash and usually just go for a regular old hyphen. It’s a free country operating system, man.

dianakimball:

Small pleasures: discovering that iOS 5 adds an en dash to the keyboard. Press-and-hold the hyphen and you’re there.

As a heavy user of em dashes (which have been available on the iOS keyboard for a while), I’ve on occasion found myself wishing for an en dash to round out the set. According to Wikipedia, the en dash can be used “to contrast values, or illustrate a relationship between two things.” More commonly, it’s used “to indicate a closed range of values, meaning a range with clearly defined and non-infinite upper and lower boundaries. This may include ranges such as those between dates, times, or numbers.”

I had no idea there was even an em dash option — but I have to say, I’m lazy with the en dash and usually just go for a regular old hyphen. It’s a free country operating system, man.