So That's $40K, Plus Another $545.45 Per Typo

Remember that little public art mosaic fiasco around a year ago? The artist, apparently hoping no one would notice, slid back into Livermore to fix her spelling mistakes. Now, if you're not up to speed on this, the original work - complete with famous names like "Eistein" (sic) and "Shakespere" (sic) - contained 11 typos and cost $40K. The corrections just cost another $6K plus travel expenses. (And this time around, to be safe, it sounds like a whole bunch of people checked the spellings.) I won't continue to beat that poor, lifeless horse on the ways her defensive negligence reaffirmed the "artist as crackpot" stereotype ... or helped give public art even worse stature in taxpayers' eyes ... but will say that if people are getting paid that kind of money to correct typos in a public venue, I feel like a huge fool. Here I've been stupidly fixing them for free all of these months ...