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Daily Words Redux

Lunchtime and right before I leave work are apparently not-so-much times for writing.  I think it’s because, as Douglas Adams said, “Time is an illusion.  Lunchtime doubly so.” I’ve been resisting writing in the mornings because I’m...

Back from WisCon

High Points: Haiku Earring party: Every year Elise Matheson throws a party where you pick a pair of earrings you like, she gives you a prompt, and if she likes the haiku you write in response she gives you the earrings. My prompt was, “What Faeries Did in the...

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day!  Plant is going to hold their annual George Forman Memorial Cookout in your server room this weekend.  Tom Limoncelli explains why here. When your pager goes off and you call them to tell them the AC failed again this year, tell them the least they...

Towards the Mountain

Neil Gaiman did a great commencement address where he talked about careers in the arts.  I really related to the bits about how he considered his goal to support himself writing as “the mountain,” and how he took or rejected jobs based on whether they took...

Accountability

Not only am I using Write or Die, I’ve also started posting daily stats to Twitter.  In addition to boring numbers, you get completely out-of-context sentences. You can help!  You can mock when I fail to tweet! Okay, maybe not.  I need positive reinforcement.  I...

I’m in the Broad Pod!

My friend Jennifer Pelland and I are in the May BroadPod.  This month’s theme is “Not Quite Human.  Automatons, AI, and Clones.” From the site: They can look human, talk and perhaps even feel human.  But are they?  Can an Artificial Intelligence...

Your Servers’ Baby Monitor

Do you know about Write or Die?  It’s described as “putting the prod into productivity” and is for procrastinating writers to force themselves to write.  (Writers procrastinate.  It’s a thing.  You can spend hours surfing the web for baby name...

Write or Die!

I just used the desktop version of Write or Die to get my daily words in.  It was a birthday present from my sister, and it was painless.  The nicest part was when I started to sit around and ponder a name for a walk-on.  I could stare at the screen and try to come up...

A one-time use script.

This isn’t the entire thing, it’s bits and pieces, but it’s enough for you to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate for your own purposes. I was given 70,000+ tab delimited lines that were output dumped from a program and asked to find out what version...

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