A ‘check’ is something you pay with. You pay a “bill”. At a restaurant, you ask for your check; you’re asking to be paid. A check is a bill in America. A bill is also paper money, or what a duck has. You feed a duck bread, which is money he puts on his bill. #writing #english

When you feel you need to eat, write instead. Or do both. That’s what I do. #writing

Don’t forget: tomorrow is Friday. You can start to goof off.

#cats

I spent most of the day redesigning the photosaday.visualnewt.com site. It’s a bit more full-featured and user-friendly. #photography

Lunch and free-writing concluded. Time to get back to attempting to be productive.

After today’s “May the Force Be With You”. Tomorrow should be, “Have a Fifth (of bourbon), Why Don’t You?”

“When I sweat, I drip.” #writing #throwawayline

Welcome to the savannah, we got plain and bland. We got everything you want, we even got a band. We are the animals that chew you up and then stampede, You can have anything you want, but you can never leave. apologies to Guns N Roses, and The Eagles. #writing

When did physical books stop having a bookmark ribbon? It can’t cost that much or be that difficult to include with every physical book. #books #reading

It’s that time again. Thank you for putting up with my random thoughts and other ramblings. If you follow or interact with me, you are worth every inch, a ruler.

Serious question: are there any good hot drinks? Apart from: — coffee — tea. — hot chocolate — water — alcoholic beverages/drinks? — soup #food

Time to switch it up. Unbranded pen (F) w/ Akkerman Hofkwartier Groen. #fountainpen

Photo up. photosaday.visualnewt.com #photography

May The Farce Be With You

I wonder what the next MacOS will be named and I’m expecting more “candy” rather than anything useful. Back in my day MacOS was fun, now it’s just utilitarian. #wwdc #macos

Someone on Mastodon needed a utility to search activitypub archives. Here is a quick and dirty utility I threw together. www.visualnewt.com/page-2/ap… #activitypub #archive #utility

Photo up. photosaday.visualnewt.com #photography

Literary Spam #publishing #agent #failure #spam

I love literary spam. Not. I’ve blanked out their personal info. I don’t want to give them press, good or bad. I also don’t want to be sued. Things to note: – The email address name does not match the name in the email. – They don’t even bother to sign the email. …

Today’s Affirmation: Your personal journey will take you place you didn’t want to go, and you will get lost.

Do people actually say, “Open your camera and take a picture”? How does one open a camera? Unless it’s a real film camera and you only do that to replace the film, or clean it.

“What if you looked into the mirror, and one day you didn’t see your father, but instead you saw your grandmother. But she was dead.” #writing #throwawayline

“Send me your first-born male child, an I will make him an idiot.” #writing #throwawayline

I don’t think I’ll get to activitypub today. Too much other stuff to focus on.

I think tomorrow I want to dive into activitypub and see if I can get it working. #activitypub #python