“People drink the equivalent of water and call it beer. They even pay more for it when they misspell Light. That’s the power of marketing—sleight of hand with words.” #writing #marketing

“He tapped his foot, as if keeping time, and failing, to his heartbeat which raced with trepidation at the thought his code was going to be released tomorrow—Friday..” #writing #throwawayline

“Your friends have all died. Your enemies have spawned. What do you do?” #writing #throwawayline #game

All degrees in Fahrenheit. We’re going places (Germanish pun).

Wherever you go to a restaurant in Dover, DE, the TVs are always have a PMS show, with a hashtag of PMSLIVE . It seems to be on 24 hours a day. The weird thing is it’s just guys talking. It must be a medical show and about male PMS. All the dudes are old. The weird thing is it’s on ESPN.

I should play some OW2. I haven’t done that in months.

Windshield has been replaced. One less thing on my to-do list (not that I did it.)

“Welcome the strange and different. Welcome the unique. Welcome, to you.” #writing

“We all dance and sing—especially when we are down and hurt.” #writing

Anyone wonder why a podcast is called a podcast? If you know, you were there at the beginning and old. #apple #ipod

So, have any of you bought the VisionPro? I’m going to wait until the price better aligns with the technology and less with research costs.But I’m tempted., not that I have a good use case for having one. #visionpro

“When someone feels like being a dictator is the right life choice, obviously, everyone hates them, or what’s more likely is that they hate everyone.” #writing

I’.m seeing a bunch of issues between platforms, including crashes on one platform, but code runs well on another. Such is the life of beta code. The good news seems to be that SwiftUI displays more consistently and correctly across the platforms it runs on. #wwdc #apple

I guess I should eat something today.

I was going through the garage and I came across a pile of the reviews that I wrote for InfoWorld. Also, found the article I wrote on TAL, the Transaction Application Language (Tandem/HPNonStop). My writing has improved since then. Also found a pile of rejection notes. #writing #programming

Good morning. Be kind to others and yourself. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

Happy National Cherry Tart Day I can’t remember the last time I had one. Wish I had one now.

“Say something pithy.” “I pithed a frog once.” #writing #throwawayline

“He was just above average, which he felt was a good place to be.” #writing

“The squirrels gathered under the large old oak tree. They weren’t here for the nuts—they were here for Fred and Clarence.” #writing #throwawayline

Weird idea: We use spices and condiments to hide the flavor of the underlying food item, because we don’;t like that flavor, or item. If we did like it, we wouldn’t mask the flavor. #food

Is anyone doing a side quest today?

I guess the Olympics are on.I know of one person who watches it. It seems the Olympics are a thing of the more-nationalistic past? Why dont we just have an Olympics with no national affiliations? Oh right. Money and bragging rights. #olympics #failure

“If you never change, you will smell.” #writing

Its 85 now, feels hotter.