The anti-Antichrist device.

Almost twenty years ago, I rented a house in a village, the name of which I choose not to remember.
I shared it with Julian and Adam. Now, Adam was known as the Antichrist.
Long before any of us had read Good Omens, a Neil Gaiman book in which there is another Antichrist named Adam.

It happened that, a few years before we moved into that house, he came to the shop from which I was running my ISP, which also sold mobile phones.
He didn't speak a word of Spanish then, so I was translating. He bought one, they told him his number would be 666-something.
So he started shouting, "Buahaha, 666, I am the Antichrist!".
Everyone was looking at him like he was crazy. I just smiled. I knew he was.
After that, we began calling him the Antichrist. It stuck. He often behaved...

... in the house in the village, more often than not, Adam would come, in the middle of the night or around dawn, eat all the food in the house, and go to sleep. We would then wake up and there would be nothing to eat.
We tried reasoning with him. It didn't work.

At that time, a friend of mine who had a restaurant, also had a tobacco-vending-machine, which he wanted to get rid of (he hated tobacco as his brother had just died of it). It was old, he couldn't sell it, asked me if I wanted it.
Light bulb. I took it to the house, emptied it, and was left with, basically, an iron cupboard with a lock on it.
It became known as the anti-Antichrist device.

Book review: The Mysterious Oyster.

Not your standard post-apocalyptic yarn.
Lots of sailboats, a few submarines, plenty of historical reference, and fractal pantheism.
Mildly disturbing on the spiritual-entertainment concept level, it still proposes some interesting possibilities, and will be certainly enjoyable to small-boat sailing buffs.

Note: the book isn't finished yet, but I really like the title so this is like... a placeholder thing :·)

The apostrophe catastrophe.

A.K.A. the Plague of Apostrophes, the rogue apostrophe pandemic, etc.

When I went to school, in the '60s and '70s, not many people misused the apostrophe.
At least not for long, 'cause if they did, not only did they get bad marks, but all sorts of general abuse.
They're simple rules, really*. It usually doesn't take the average child more than a couple of days - or corrections - to understand them.

It seems that starting with the '90s... they somehow became the 90's.
Now, the 90's what, exactly, I wonder.
The decade? The fad? The illiteracy?

This is so widespread - and getting worse - it makes my head spin.
They're everywhere. Not only on social networks, mind you, which is to be expected if not accepted. We all know the infinite-monkey theory - as applied to the internet.
They're on billboards. In newspapers. TV captions, shop signs, you name it.

Author Karin Winegar, in "Can't We Stop This Plague of Errant Apostrophes?" (March 25, 2019) reports seeing them (repeatedly) in the New York Times:

"I have even spotted this plague in the usually impeccable New York  Times: a headline in the Sunday, March 24, 2002 arts section (p29)  announced  to several  million readers  that there were "Bravo's in the  Hall."  And then there was "The cartoon's aren't..." (Sunday March 31,  2002 pg. 10 Week in Review. Shhh! We're Trying to Surf)."

What's worse, try correcting someone about it. Actually, don't. You won't like the results.
One case in point: on an online forum I use, they have a section, Documentation.
In there, they have "How-to's" (basically meaning tutorials). It's mentioned twice, just in the headers.
I wrote (privately) to an administrator, saying look, not trying to be a bother, I realise it's not a literary forum, and so on, I think those apostrophes don't look too good.

He replied saying "it's acceptable, they stay." Citing a Stackexchange post where the most literate user probably never made it past 3rd grade, which cited "as evidence" an entry in the "open" section of an online dictionary, "submitted from [sic] Nikolay Akakyevic [name changed] from Russian Federation on 25/12/2015"

* The rules are so simple regarding plurals, actually, there's only one rule: you never use an apostrophe to make a plural. Period.
There is supposed to be one exception (no, the one about abbreviations in not real). Plurals of lowercase letters - the (in)famous "mind your p's and q's".
The idea being that if they're capital letters, like Ps and Qs, it's clear enough. ps and qs "can be doubtful".
Oh well. Nobody writes that anyway - and with good reason. It's ugly.