Our next featured creator will be fantasy writer Hannah Steenbock. You can find her work here: https://books2read.com/hannahsteenbock
Please join us Saturday the 21st for Talk To Me Day. You can ask questions by @ing @Firlefanz and adding the hashtags #ScribesAndMakers and #TTMD
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When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.
These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this
@thomasfuchs I've always wondered how plumbuses were made
@Tinrocket What are you working on exactly?
@schwa This is a a vector drawing app with natural media effects. Something I started on Twitter years ago.
AI image slop vs physiotherapy!
@cstross wer sich da bewirbt hat zumindest eine Ausbildung bitter nötig (ebenso wie jeder, der das verbrochen hat)
"The shindig is now in the public domain" Good news for anyone who wants to hold a shindig
lyric-based joke reply
@mcc Maybe not such good news for shindig addicts like the protagonist of "Can't Stop" by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Walking around a college campus with my parents, and I realized we were all the right ages to be parents and grandparents of pretty much all of the undergrads.
@JessTheUnstill i just realized that if i had started having kids when my folks did, my hypothetical grandchild could be be starting college. i need to go do something wildlty immature.
To modern ears, the violin and woodwind parts feel . . . technical term here . . . "icky".
But that's how it is with music that's from another era, nearly always. I say nearly: there *are* timeless arrangements out there. But they're an astonishing rarity, and usually involve refusing to polish, leaving the diamond set as simply as it can be.
Aside: Don McLean is really a three-hit wonder. That is a very rare catefory.
("American Pie", and "Vincent" aka "Starry Starry Night" were his other two.)
#BBC Trump says he will be 'indirectly' involved in Iran nuclear talks https://w.st/XMD7P
@stefani @mayintoronto limited mobile notifications to 10 users for free. Otherwise it's $3.50/user
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This is a remarkable piece of work, even if you're not like me, and don't care for sappy romantic songs.
The verses use a fairly unusual A-B-B-A rhyme structure.
Then the strange C-C-C-D-D-C of the, idunno, I don't think it's a chorus, it's just a bridge.
To modern ears, the violin and woodwind parts feel . . . technical term here . . . "icky".
But that's how it is with music that's from another era, nearly always. I say nearly: there *are* timeless arrangements out there. But they're an astonishing rarity, and usually involve refusing to polish, leaving the diamond set as simply as it can be.
Don McLean, "And I Love You So".
This is a remarkable piece of work, even if you're not like me, and don't care for sappy romantic songs.
The verses use a fairly unusual A-B-B-A rhyme structure.
Then the strange C-C-C-D-D-C of the, idunno, I don't think it's a chorus, it's just a bridge.
Don McLean, "And I Love You So".
does there exist a good writeup of the Itanium story? ideally I'd like something that covers the business side and also the technical side, and it would be a retrospective, not something from when people thought this might work
@regehr I'm particularly curious to see what magic HP pulled to convince Intel to do another attempt at VLIW 
Erev laissez les bon temps rouler sameach
Sometimes life is *weird*.
I just saw this video, and it reminded me that *this morning* I had the thought to start noting down what I'm doing again, but as I'm doing it.
I had utterly forgotten I'd had that thought, because... well. Video explains that.
I think I need to carry a little notepad with me, everywhere. Because if it's just an app on the Mac or the phone... I end up forgetting that.
I didn't know this had a name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFidZJhxz84
Interstitial Journaling.
@mattwilcox I have been doing something similar to this as a replacement for a lot of micro-blogging. Might be worth trying out in a work-context as well. 🤔
@mayintoronto That's a super common trait for ADHD.
The problem is - you're basically spiking stress and cortisol to get some focus. But that ends up with diminishing returns over time. Eventually you go searching for that focus spike, and it just isn't there no matter how much you stress. And that's burnout.
@JessTheUnstill Yeaaahhh, I'm considering getting an ADHD coach. And maybe a diagnosis for those drugs, but that's like $2500. 🤷
