Just because you don’t have experience, doesn’t mean you can’t learn.–unless of course, you’ve been at it for 3 or more years.

I should learn how to post images to a Flask site. #flask #python

Thank you all who care about what I post. I know I often mind-dump. I have too much stuff in my mind. If I kept it all in, I’d be more insane than I am. A single thread can still weave a blanket or story. Many can create a patchwork. #life

“Sunlight and strawberries. That is you.” #writing

“What if you could invent a better spoon. What would it look like? What would it do? That is the goal of all marketing. How to convince the world it needs a better spoon.” #writing #marketing

“Power is a diversion.” #writing

“With power comes great complexity.” #xcode

What do I want from this year’s #wwdc? The same thing I always seem to want. A simpler, more gentle, less all-you can-eat version of #xcode I know, I won’t get a simplified Swift syntax that hides “the academic”. #programming #ios #xcode #mac #apple

“My mind soars , trwirls about, and then often crashes against the jagged rocks. How I love the rocks.” #writing

“She was poetry in motion, but without a meter.” #writing

“Where would you go if money, time, and responsibilities were no object. How fast can you run?” #writing

OK. The C/W crowd has left and now the restaurant is playing Pink Floyd. More my speed. #music

“My pappy taught me one thing that has stood me in good stead. Never trust a man named Larry, especially when you’ve had five shots of tequila.” #writing

Play as if you were a child. You still are. Admit it. #life #success

Free-writing #writing

OK. Weird. The bartender/server just told me that her friend is reading my book, “The Singular Case of the Three Witches”. That can’t be true. #book #writing #publishing

I wish I knew how to/could draw or even doodle.

Einstein was wrong. TIme doesn’t keep things from happening all at once. Time keeps you from getting overwhelmed, by trying to understand everything happening all at once. Your mind can only single-thread so it can only deal with one event at at a “time”. #time

“The sky was bereft of clouds the way my heart was bereft of love. At most, it was cloudy.” #writing #throwawayline

I still don’t grok why restaurants in Delaware insist on playing Country C/W music. DE is nether. #music #failure

Murder By Poison-Pen Letter In a pinch you can use a fountain pen as a weapon, especially if you fill it with poison ink. The pen, after all, is less conspicuous than the sword. #fountainpen #writing

“Don’t glare at the sun hoping it will dim.” — ancient proverb I just made up

Nibbage. #fountainpen

Age is a symptom of living too long.” #writing

“How are things?” “Status kyu.” If you get it, you get it. #writing #throwawayline