diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e19df4b..c0c535b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Blog post: <https://proclamations.nebcorp-hias.com/sundries/presenting-julids/>
 
 ## A slightly deeper look
 
-Julids are a drop-in replacement for ULIDs; all Julids are valid ULIDs, but not all ULIDs are valid Julids.
+Julids are a drop-in replacement for ULIDs: all Julids are valid ULIDs, but not all ULIDs are valid Julids.
 
 Given their compatibility relationship, Julids and ULIDs must have quite a bit in common, and indeed
 they do:
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ they do:
  * they are 128-bits long
  * they are lexicographically sortable
  * they encode their creation time as the number of milliseconds since the [UNIX
-   epoch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time)
+   epoch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time) in their top 48 bits
  * their string representation is a 26-character [base-32
    Crockford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32) encoding of their big-endian bytes
  * IDs created within the same millisecond are still meant to sort in their order of creation
@@ -149,7 +149,8 @@ a simple benchmark in the examples folder of the repo, the important parts of wh
 use julid::Julid;
 
 fn main() {
-    [....]
+    /* snip some stuff */
+
     let start = Instant::now();
     for _ in 0..num {
         v.push(Julid::new());
@@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ timestamp as a [`DateTime`](https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/struct.DateTime
 `created_at(&self)` method to `Julid`.
 
 Something to note: don't enable the `plugin` feature in your Cargo.toml if you're using this crate
-inside your Rust application, *especially* if you're also loading it as an extension in SQLite in
+inside your Rust application, especially if you're *also* loading it as an extension in SQLite in
 your application. You'll get a long and confusing runtime panic due to there being multiple
 entrypoints defined with the same name.
 
@@ -198,8 +199,8 @@ the C interface, which is inherently unsafe. If you are not building the plugin,
 
 # Thanks
 
-This crate wouldn't have been possible without a lot of inspiration (and a little shameless
-stealing) from the [ulid-rs](https://github.com/dylanhart/ulid-rs) crate, as well as the
-[sqlite-loadable-rs](https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-loadable-rs) crate, which made it *extremely*
-easy to write the SQLite extension. Thank you, authors of those crates! Feel free to steal from this
-project!
+This project wouldn't have happened without a lot of inspiration (and a little shameless stealing)
+from the [ulid-rs](https://github.com/dylanhart/ulid-rs) crate. For the loadable extension, the
+[sqlite-loadable-rs](https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-loadable-rs) crate made it *extremely* easy to
+write; what I thought would take a couple days instead took a couple hours. Thank you, authors of
+those crates! Feel free to steal code from me any time!