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Scars make for good stories.

#writing

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“Survival just means you get to suffer a bit more.”

#writing

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“Sunshine is great until you get cancer. Darkness is where the monsters roam.”

#writing #throwawayline

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Someone should make sandcastles using mashed potato’s.

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Restaurant servers who tell you “Enjoy!” when delivering your food are either commanding you enjoy the food, or are biasing your opinion of the food you got. It’s not up to them whether I enjoy it or not.

Either way, it’s something to be called out.

#restaruant #failure #marketing #training

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Tantrums should be a disqualifying factor in elections. Just sayin’

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Back home from a vacation weekend. Stuff to catch up on, but I got some writing done.

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Goals and aspirations are fine. But don’t expect to achieve them.

#life

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Happy National Diatomaceous Earth Day

The diatoms thank you.

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Who is today’s Terry Pratchett?

#writing #books

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“Kick me and I’ll turn the other cheek.”

#writing #throwawayline

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What’s worse than someone talking loudly on their cellphone? Someone talking loudly on their cellphone to ChatGPT. Yes, this is now a thing.

#life #failure #ai

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Kids nowadays don’t know what the T-Bird they took away was.

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Observed: a guy walks in with his brother. Castro and Raul lookalikes, but with a lot more tatttoos.

#character

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Still getting the spam from the blocked and muted acct.

@help @manton.

\"\"

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#writing

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Choppy seas this morning. Or at least waters.

\"\"

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Good morning. It’s the last day of the weekend. Enjoy it. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

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“We are not the ones we pretend to be. Why do you insist on pretending to be someone you are not?”

#writing

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“Do what you are told or you will be shot. You have, by your actions, agreed not to question or think.”
#writing

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“Childood has never been left up to children.”

#writing #life

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Good morning. Be kind. Let go of your preconceptions. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

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If you think about it typing with your thumbs is like using a knife and fork with your big toes.

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If someone says they want to invest in you, they want something in return. Beware!

#life #failure

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@mpospese actually it’s a holiday weekend for me in the British sense - vacation.

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@mpospese National Power Rangers Day ;)

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@ninetiger Accepted. But genealogy isn’t history in the sense I meant it. Personal history is another matter ;)

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@ninetiger You’re an optimist.

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@mpospese Good as is, or you can take up mead brewing. Easy.

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@bwebster I like trying weird things. Just honey water and mint. 1c mint to 1gal. Should be ok, but thinking the aroma will dissipate and go grassy, hence the 2dary addition. Beet mead was great.

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@erikmercer Actual plant, leaves,flowers, stems in the boil. Will add some to the secondary ferment to boost the \"mintyness\".

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@jefklak Yup the PuChiCo

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@dimsumthinking I can do that if you want, but I'm not a math wiz ;)

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@dimsumthinking cool. I definitely need an algebra, geometry, calculus refresher. Maybe you could gear it as such. A “refresher” niche for people who haven’t used/forgot what they used to. There is probably demand for that rather than a straight-up book. Just a thought.

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@dimsumthinking How’s the art/baking going? Too hot to bake here. Art here is still meaningless scribbles. I’m trying to get back to some basic ability pre aphantasia took over.

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@dimsumthinking how about a Swift package that does that? https://github.com/lucaArchidiacono/epubchecker

No, I haven’t tried these.

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@dimsumthinking https://www.npmjs.com/package/@likecoin/epubcheck-ts

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@dimsumthinking Ah! Ok. I just use a web tool to do that when testing my code. The jar file approach seems reasaonable then. Maybe this will help: https://deepwiki.com/w3c/epubcheck

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@Emmacox Any character where fans/execs demand they get one.

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@dimsumthinking What are you trying to accomplish, and why invoke a Java tool? If you’re trying to create a simple EPUB (with nothing fancy) it’s straightrforward in Swift — I can send you my gnarly code.

I don’t do images (apart from cover), but that shouldn’t be difficult to add.

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@ninetiger Too many drag/scrape.

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@sdarlington Ah well. OK. You could’ve gotten some vicariously. Or a strawberries and cream scone ;) But any scone will do. I need to bake some.

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@sdarlington That’s ok. But I thought strawberries and cream were the thing to get at Wimbledon.

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@sdarlington Did you get strawberries and cream?

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@dimsumthinking @RonJeffries Stress is when your dreams/expectaions don’t map to your reality. I you don’t write/do what you want you WILL be stressed.

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@dimsumthinking @RonJeffries Take it from me. Write what you want when you want. Do it for yourself. If you worry about money that never shows up, you’ll never get any. Being a successful writer isn’t about how much you make or sell. ;) Do it. I’ve told you this before ;)

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@dimsumthinking I’d worry about people not knowing who T.S. Eliot was more ;)

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@golgaloth I hate podcasts that do interviews. If I want to listen to people talk I go to a restaurant or hotel. I'd rather learn something or be entertained.

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@sdarlington I used to run that on my machine … way back when.

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