Dear Dragon*Con, “Lie” is an intransitive verb that does not need an object. “Lay” is a transitive verb requiring an object. These signs have been wrong every year since I started attending. Here’s our blog post in 2009. Attached is a picture taken yesterday. Please, please, PLEASE fix this before next year. Dragon*Con is about …read more.

No matter how much you try, you can’t make this right.

So last weekend was Dragon*Con, the annual science fiction and fantasy convention that draws over 30,000 fans a year.  I was pleased to note that there were very, very few glaring errors that jumped out at me anywhere on the premises.  I wasn’t able to get good shots of the one other great one I …read more.

I saw this, and I flipped the board over while thinking to myself, “Please let the answer have something to do with eggs…” Alas, it doesn’t.  It has to do with their liking to lie in the sun.  LIE in the sun.  In fact, the internets assure me that hornbills tend to LAY (their eggs) …read more.