“If you don’t enjoy life, maybe you’ll enjoy death.” #writing

“The vampire still lived! He stared at horror at his missed stake.” #writing #throwawayline

It seems NASCAR is dying off. Dover only has one event this year instead of two. I wonder what they’ll turn the track into. They don’t use it for anything else, and sits dead most of the year. #dover #nascar

What side quests are you involved in today?

I rewrote the stack functions to use my SM rather than a simple array. I had to write SM memory word and byte access routines and implement a stack pointer. Next, I need to deal with the return stack. I think I want to factor out the stack memory stuff so it’s reusable. #programming #memory #forth

Overheard: “I’m going to Seattle.” My mind translates this as: “I’m going to see ATL.” My LLM is extremely L.

“He fell to the ground—dead. He was snot in the mouth.” #writing #throwawayline

“A shot of whiskey in one hand, a gun in the other. She smiled seductively. She was deadly, and drunk.” #writing #throwawayline

I, literally, have no imagination. But I’m really good at making stuff up, because I can extrapolate and see connections that others don’t. #aphantasia

The word trope means to change the meaning of a word. The word itself is a trope when applied to overused and or expected movies and TV. #writing #grammar

If you believe the future will take care of itself, why aren’t you taking care of the now?

The most used tool at work is the brain. It is under-acknowledged and underappreciated. And often, underused. #life #business

Happy World Penguin Day

Hello. Have a moment today. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

Mystic Centipedes of Magradora

Hm. Apple just released some open-source on-device LLM AI models. #apple #llm

What sort of pestilence resides in your closet?

Plan for tomorrow: — editing — work on FORTH — read — errands

OK. It’s time to relax.

The Gathering: Speck, one of the feral kittens seems to have adopted me. I guess another trip to the vet is on order. #feral #kitten

“How big is your cult?” “I don’t have a cult.” “You have followers, don’t you?” #writing #life #socialmedia

“Being an outlier, whether it is an individual or an industry, has costs unincurred by the non-outliers.” #life #business

Last great party band: J. Geils. Flame on! #music

Ok. This is a weird idea. I have a plethora of them. Four is ground grain. Grain is a plant. Garlic is plant. Garlic powder could be, loosely, considered a flour. Garlic bread made out of garlic powder. I may have to try this… but I’d have to get a few cups of garlic powder… #food #baking

It looks like Jeff Lynne and ELO are on their final tour this year. I’ll miss new music, but I can enjoy what is. #music #elo