“Success comes from not caring what anyone thinks and helping that need it. Failure cares from not caring what anyone thinks and helping yourself.” #writing #life

“He was uncanny in making the non-existent frighteningly real to anyone who would believe.” #writing

“The wonderful thing about fear is that once you realize most things go away on their own, you no longer fear. Unless, of course, the fear stays the weekend and drives you crazy.” #writing

“Balrog: The Reckoning” #throwawayline

Happy National Goof-Off Day

Photo up. photosaday.visualnewt.com #photography

“My head felt like I had a cement hangover.” #writing #throwawayline

Good morning. Enjoy the day. Don’t rue the night. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

Plan for tomorrow: — edit — play some games — eat stuff — plan some day trips(?)

Why are you still working? Did you forget that it is the weekend? You are no god to be working all of the time. Find sustinance.

Name a kid’s cartoon that was (meaning, not current or within the past couple of years) better than you remember. Superhero cartoons don’t count.

Observed: someone doing a motorcycle wheelie on a major highway for ten seconds Idiots will idiot #netde

First-hand knowledge is the most honest kind. Otherwise, it is just belief. And even then, you can be wrong. #life

Be reliable. #life #success

I sort of miss programming on a DECwriter (teletype). There was something satisfying in literally pushing a key down and seeing punch-paper tape spew out. You were creating something. Now, everything you do is just feeding an LLM without any real result. #programming #dec

When was the last time you prowled?

“The emperor is insane and making shit up. That doesn’t make them creative.” #writing #character

If you don’t question why someone chooses to do something, you are enabling and agreeing with that person. Either that of you don’t care or fear standing up to them. Bullies at all levels leverage that knowledge. #life #failure

Overheard: “I’ll have an idea … “ So you have an idea you’ll have an idea. Very meta and not useful..

“Death has a way of teaching you, if you don’t die first.” #writing #life

“I want t make money.” “I want to help others.” “I don’t care.”

Ideas you keep to yourself are secrets. Ideas are meant to be shared. #life #productivity

Optimism is what you have when you can’t afford pessimism. #life

I’m learning Kotlin. Why? Why not? It’s a decent language syntax-wise, but requires a JVM? WTF? #programming #kotlin