“Life has no participation medals. We give medals to those who do something exceptional, especially when they die.” #writing #life

“Life is an Olympic sport, for which you get no medal.” #writing

“Don’t let your guard down. Be a good commander.” #writing #life

When you go out and eat “wings” at a restaurant, how do you know you aren’t getting rat limbs?

The line is always shortest at the front. #life

“The hardships you survive are gifts. The ones you don’t survive, well … “ #writing

Today’s spam deluge includes … #email #spam #failure

“Luck of the draw”, does it originate from cards or from being faster “on the draw” in old-timey Western shootouts? It could apply to both. #writing #luck

I guess it’s appropriate I’m trying to come up with a short story idea for Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity on Friday the 13th, give the the story theme needs to be “luck”. #writing #luck #mdc3con

If you were to plot every living person’s “story/life arc”, I wonder if it would be rising, falling, or flat. My guess it would be a bell curve around flat or falling. #life #story #character #arc #writing #statistics

I have a feeling that Apple isn’t having problems with improving Siri. I get the impression the delays are due to Apple having problems dealing with the inherent problems of LLMs and “AI”. For all of their “smarts”, LLM/AIs are idiots. #apple #siri #ai

My app is slowly getting there. Still needs a few UI tweaks and logic upgrades. #programming #app

“The problem, isn’t so much about what happened. It’s about people asking why it happens, only to have someone else lie about it.” #writing

“Don’t sit around dreaming about what you can do. Do it.” #writing #life

“Hitting the ground is always a lot more impactful than falling.” #writing

Worry about your next problem, not your last one. #life

“Whenever possible, reduce the number of facts, locations and characters. People get confused easily, and just want the good bits.” #writing

Happy The Inbox Day

Do you plan on doing anything edgy today?

Happy Friday the 13th! I’m lucky I have all of these black cats, in The Gathering. Her is a pic of two of the 7 Bombays. This is Bit and Mouse, feeling at home. #cats

Good morning, pipple. I hope everyone is up and ready for another trip around the center of the planet. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

Yum sourdough lemon chocolate babka. #baking #sourdough

Trying to remember how to set up XCode permissions to allow data to synchronize via iCloud Drive user-visible locations. It’s never as easy as it should be. It’s working, but not in a user-visible iCloud location. #xcode

Happy National Lost Penny Day … all of them are now lost …

“I’m coming to the conclusion that if anything has two sides: good luck bad luck, good evil, young old, and that sort of thing, that they are purely the work of the human imagination, and do not truly exist.” #writing