Best Beloved is definitely not dead. Alive and - well, groggy right now, and getting ready for work. But alive. Which is a very, very good thing.

Wait, are YOU the one that's responsible for those horrible programming instructions that come with VCRs? ;-)

Oh, god. Until you asked that, I had completely forgotten that I, the original No Smut Writing Girl, did write smut once.

When I was in college, I had the unenviable task of writing an introduction to internet use for incoming freshmen. It was hard, because I'd have to take a basic task I'd been doing forever and pick it apart, think of all the ways that someone could screw it up. And it took forever, because I only had so many pages, so I'd have to write a section and then find a way to keep all the content and sense and still cut it in half.

In a can't-take-it-anymore fit, I spent one entire afternoon rewriting one entire section as smut. Computer/removable storage media, computer/user, and internet/user is how we'd describe it now.

So I think it's safe to say that if I was responsible for VCR user manuals, they'd be noticeably different.