Open Office, Motherfucker
by David Wong
So I don’t have the $500 to spend on Microsoft’s Office suite, and compose everything on Open Office. This is the free open-source word processor and it works as well as can be expected (yes, I wrote and formatted the book version of JDatE on it). One feature of Open Office is its “auto-complete” system that detects when you’re about to type certain words and goes ahead and fills in the rest to save you some keystrokes. So when you start to type the word “motivate” in Open Office, autocomplete gives you:
