Happy National Beer Lovers Day

I’m off to Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity today.

Hello. Be kind. Be thoughtful. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

I wonder if I should eat dinner today.

Ok.I’m all set to head for C3 tomorrow.

Happy National Read A Book Day auteureist.com

Hello. It’s the midpoint of the week. Power through. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

Things I’m hoping for from next week’s Apple event: iPhone redesign Apple Watch redesign updated iPad mini (not expecting this until next year’s iPad event). Journaling app announcement (again not expecting this this year) new shiny #apple

This just struck me. What will your character give up in order to succeed? It’s not enough for them to give up what they know they will have to give up. They must give up something they didn’t expect for their victory to be meaningful. They must be blindsided, but not the reader. #writing #character

Plan for tomorrow: — iOS stuff — edit — prep for C3 — eat edible things

Time for some underrated music with a great message. “Wonderous is this great blue ship That sails around the mighty sun And joy to everyone that rides along.” youtu.be/H75ivqdjg… #music

Auteureist Reborn visualnewt.com/page-7/bl… #ios #writing

“If you deny yourself the opportunity to grow and become better, you will become worse.” #life

Things I’m seeing on YouTube: — “Scientific advice from a guy who lives in a dumpster” — “Basic math stumps tree stumps.” — “Explanation of dumb movies as if they were relevant.” — “The world is ending.” — “Trump is a god who just soiled himself.” — “You need these useless and overpriced chachkis.

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.