All governments should ban lobbying via AI unless and until AIs are declared sentient. #ai #governmetn #lobbying #failure

Just because you’re rated #1, doesn’t make you the best, just popular with the masses. #media #product #marketing #failure

Salespeople are just human vending machines who overcharge.

Gratuitous cheeseburgerer pic. #food

If I ever decide to publish a book of my quotes/ideas/throwawaylines I can now just pull them from the DB backing The Continuity. #writing #programming #throwawayline

Reminder to self. Pack AirPods. #travel

“We live in the age of the influencer. An influencer isn’t trained in anything other than having an opinion.” #writring

Back in the day, people retired to the drawing room. Not because anyone drew there, but because they had curtains.

There is reality and then there is Reality. And then there is the stuff you believe. #life

“Being so short, he was every inch a ruler.” apologies to ISIRTA #writing #throwawayline

Back in my day musicians and singers didn’t need autotune or Melodyne. They had talent.

I think my backup pen has enough ink to see me through C3.

Nibbage. This old Esterbrook that I restored writes smooth as melted butter. #fountainpen

Anyone remember The Honeydrippers? #music

Authors whose style I admire, in no particular order: — John Dickson Carr — Stephen R. Donaldson — Raymond Chandler — Spider Robinson — Keith Laumer — Warren Murphy — James Fenimore Cooper — Edgar Alan Poe Flame on! #writing #author #style

So. Do you say scallywag or scalawag? Or do you say, I’ll just have lunch? #words #writing #grammar

“Back in ancient times, people used amphoras to amp themselves up.” #writing #throwawayline

“Time is a constant. What you do with it is variable.” — ancient aphorism I just made up

I added a function to my word cloud struct to alert me whenever I repeat a word in a sentence. It was easy enough to do and should help catch words I tend to overuse within a given sentence. #writing #programming #ios

I’m looking forward to Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity later this week. It will be over too soon. #mdc3con #writing

Ok. I came up with a simple temporary icon for the app. #ios #programming #design

Don’t blame. But hold people responsible for their actions. It’s not enough to have a meeting. Solve the problem, don’t just talk about it. #business #management

It’s time to eat and free-write. I feel like eating a cheeseburger. I haven’t had one in at least 30 years.

Life is hard. Show up to do the work. #life

Good morning. Don’t be a dictator, or a mob boss. Time for the ceremonial coffee.