Two lightning bolts chase each other, outside, across the meadow, do not heed what is around them, leave scars like writing on the ground.
█: another lost letter↵It originally contained all possible letters but was banned after lazy writers used it to write whole novels
ism (v)↵not only having an idea, but writing the book on it, founding a movement↵”I had this great idea but some guys ism’d it in the 19th”
Or do you ask because you want to implement a client or server? I can probably write something up, it’s a very minimal api.
someone with write access to the platonic realm put it there but somehow you think it’s a good idea to solve the labyrinth
This would allow to add comments, preserves whitespace and ordering. And no process will be writing in your file while you’re editing it.
writing technique: glitching narratives
kaleidoscopic writing: take [collection of shiny things], let it tumble about and assume many different configurations, describe them all.
We would have to write a new plugin for that. Which sounds fun… Do you have a have a receiver we can play with?
Markovian writing, in which you try to sound like a Markov chain while still making sense on another level.
📚 Finished reading Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read by Brooks Landon
📚 Finished reading Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read by Brooks Landon
We’re planning to write one ourselves but i wanted to check the alternatives first.
Be careful with those plot threads. Lose enough and resourceful characters will weave them into plot armor to protect against your writing.
My one daily hour of programming was spent today with writing tests for txtnix. So tired now …
In the right reader, the parts will align again and click into place. The author is reborn in the reader’s body and free to write again.
One has to decompose one’s mind into its constituents, place them in the writing in a careful arrangement of mirrors, lenses and gems.
Authors understand that their writing grants them a kind of immortality. But some of the skilled and ambitious reach for the real thing.
horror vacui’s obscure sibling, horror abundantis: the writer’s ideas pile up against the mind’s floodgates and they can’t write fast enough
I suppose there is no emotion golem yet? Write a stage play and weave your audience’s emotions into something that smells of flowers&death.
This premise resulted in way too many ideas to post to twitter:↵http://www.synkretie.net/writings/world%20building%20-%20flat%20earth.html↵I think I shall do this for more ideas from now on.
Their society has never known books and writing, or needed either. Large orchards are a thing of power, and closely guarded against arson.
Been thinking about writing a twtxt-AAS provider.
those who write their novels in a typesafe language so the compiler would find plot holes↵http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/01/excuses-excuses.html#comment-1990861
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Finding little to talk about
The main problem with Jekyll is that is out of the way. Unlike other weblog engines, which are managed via the web, I come to the shell to type and process this. Perhaps I need to research a better workflow?
I am finding little to talk about lately, and that is keeping things here rather quiet. It is not only that I do not have much to write, but that when the desire arrives it gets lost in translation, mostly because of the way I have decided to handle this little space of mi … ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything by Dorsey Armstrong
📚 Finished reading Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything by Dorsey Armstrong
Specialization is for Insects
From Robert Heinlein’s science fiction book, _Time Enough for Love_:
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure … ⌘ Read more
The joy of reading Hemingway
Recently, Kent had the misfortune of picking “ A Moveable Feast”, by Ernest Hemingway, for a school assignment. I know I am not the right person1 to judge anyone’s writing style, I am simply recollecting the comments Kent has made while reading the book.
So far, other than finding the book boring — mind it, he is barely 13 — he is puzzled at the use of French terms that he … ⌘ Read more
Hello world, or hello again!
This is the first post. It seems I have started writing occasionally again. I still conserve the old posts, from the previous weblog. Not sure many of them were worth of keeping, but I might browse through them and pick one or two to bring back here.
This time I will keep this simple. Well, as simple as a person with slight OCD can keep it. I promise, I think. This little site is generated by [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.c … ⌘ Read more
Comment on Mir Performance with Unity 8 Shown Off in New Video by FFaael
In reply to Andrei Zisu.
No you can not skip qml if you plan to use qtquick. Without qtquick you don’t get the nice animations etc. Yes you can write the business logic in some other language, but it is also possible to write it in JS instead. Especially with small simple apps is probably a good idea using … ⌘ Read more
On the meaning of life
Will Durant sent a letter to a few notable figures, asking them for the meaning of life.
Spare me a moment to tell me what meaning life has for you, what keeps you going, what help—if any—religion gives you, what are the sources of your inspiration and your energy, what is the goal or motive-force of your toil, where you find your consolations and your happiness, where, in the last resort, your treasure lies. Write briefly if you must; … ⌘ Read more
The Unthinkable
Yesterday I did the unthinkable. Something I have never done — nor will I do again — before. I went very early (03:15) to stand at the Millenia all, to be one of the first (or so I thought) to buy the iPhone 4.
I don’t want to write long about something I am more than half way ashamed of. Suffice it to say that I got an iPhone 4 after standing in line for … ⌘ Read more
The wheels of justice
I thought twice before coming here and write two or three sentences. But sometimes two or three sentences is all you have. I had to do it: Apple Inc., you rock!
If you want to be a “journalist”, act as one. As Powazek wrote in a tweet, “Real journalists don’t buy stolen property.” ⌘ Read more
Use Google Checkout
I was going to write a longer note on Paypal and eBay, but after some time to cool down I do not think it is worth it. Instead I am going to recommend, wholeheartedly, the use of Google Checkout for all your payments and shopping needs. Really, once again Google did not let me down and transformed an otherwise nightmare into a pleasant auctioning/shopping dream.
If you must use eBay, find a way to use Google Checkout with it. Y … ⌘ Read more
Programmers != Antisocials
BBC NEWS: Business: Bill Gates: The skills you need to succeed
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
This isn’t true at all.
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with cu … ⌘ Read more
Write Articles, Not Blog Postings
Write Articles, Not Blog Postings – Jakob Nielsens Alertbox
Boy, do I agree with Nielsen on this one. I have been guilty of many of the things he points out. That is why I am scribbling less lately. And it will be much less in the future. Totally dislike the “tumbler” generation. Junk. ⌘ Read more
I shall not censure
From today on, I shall not censure on this weblog. Any comment left (no spam comments, of course. Who needs those?) will be shown uncensored. I will only mask foul words (just because of my ICRA rating, safe for children), and correct capitalization as needed, but nothing else. I don’t remember ever censuring –I don’t write enough, really. But now I have taken that idea, if ever was, away from my mind. ⌘ Read more
Thought of the day
If your weblog or site –in general– advertising is slowing down the load of pages to an almost complete halt, it is time to re-think and take a different marketing approach. Your writings and your advertising are been missing. You may as well cancel your hosting and print what you want to say, along with the advertisings. ⌘ Read more
More changes coming
For the first time I am working on creating a complete theme here. The last time I had a decent one was back when WordPress 1.5 was around, for which themes weren’t implemented as they are now.
No much have been happening in life. I don’t have much to tell right now, other that those minor breadcrumbs of life. Actually, I have a few things I want to write, if anything to keep record online of what happened. Those few things involve GoDaddy and Media Temple. But it will be a future top … ⌘ Read more
Good bye MMIV. Welcome MMV!
And here I am, to wish good byes to 2004 and to greet 2005. The year 2004 was a heck of a year, too many things to write in just a couple of minutes. Just one true thing, everything we—the Collantes’ family—did go through was worth the journey.
So, 2005 starts and with it my often erratic and/or pedantic ramblings. To all a prosperous, peaceful, hopeful, fruitful 2005. Just love one to each other, everything else comes after. ⌘ Read more
Gmail invitations
I have 6 Gmail invitations that I will give out to anyone who writes a sincere comment about the use it will give to such account, if given. I have been using Gmail for a while now and I can assure you it is a great service, addictive indeed. It is not all about the 1GB of space that Google gives with it, but the excellent features and blazing speed. You can read more about Gmail on the Gmail Support Center. I also [wrote](https://collant … ⌘ Read more
More on Lingo
A while ago I wrote about my plans of dropping BellSouth for a VoIP provider called Lingo. At that time I also wrote that I would come back and write a review about it. Well, this is not a real review –I really do not know how to write one– but it contains my experiences with Lingo voice over IP (VoIP) service, so far.
When something works fine there is very little to tell. The … ⌘ Read more
Brainstorming
Some of you might have noticed that I changed things around a little bit. I am still not decided what to have in here, but the actual interface will do for now, even though at time you might see the “blue” one that I had for quite a while before.
I have eliminated the categories, even though I still use them when writing entries. Tomorrow –or the day after tomorrow– I will be upgrading to 1.3-prealpha, which contains some code to allow clean URI’s across the whole site (with the exception o … ⌘ Read more
Futilely insisting
Human nature is quite interesting and I type so based on my own experience. I am talking about myself.
It amazes me that I keep going to check for new entries or read comments, once — and sometimes two, three, four times — a day on Ambivalent.US, when I disagree 9 out of 10 with everything the owner has to say (actually, write). Same thing happens with Hivelogic, I go there every day just to find a bo … ⌘ Read more
Happy New Year 2004!
As we get closer to changing years —in some parts of the world it is already 2004— I feel like going over the things that happened to us (the Collantes’ family) during 2003. I may not have enough to write about to make this a serious entry, but here I go.
This year we are leaving behind brought very few things, but some made a deep impact in our lives at this point. To start with, we turned out one year older (duh!) and, hence, gained on experience (yeah, right!). We reached our 5th … ⌘ Read more
Like a Phoenix
Just like a Phoenix, this is a rebirth from my own ashes. I wanted to change things around here, perhaps change the way I write. Finally, I have decided to come back on a more informal way. Like it was in the beginning, when I decided that blogging could be a fun thing to do.
How informal will it be? Well, as informal as life itself — at least, mine —. I will write things that happen to me, my family, my friends and fellow human beings in general. I will not hold back just because I may think m … ⌘ Read more
Redesign on the horizon
Pretty soon I will be redesigning. I am not sure what I will do yet, but the main site will change. Additionally, I will be adding an extra blog using MT (Movable Type).
On the main site I am not sure whether to go simplistic or zeldmanian, but changes are due, since I am also changing the way I have been writing lately. The domain Collantes.US will become the echo of my thoughts on technology, science, religion, politics and everything else in between. Stay tuned, if you want. Or … ⌘ Read more