Mark Atwood

I've been playing many more games for my Xbox 360, and I need to ask some questions. Possibly they will be girly-ish questions. Thus, I asked to join a women's gaming group, and I respectfully hope that they will accept me, even though I haven't been posting so much lately.  :)

I happened to have this cached in my browser, and I caught it before I refreshed. All will love me and despair:

so in all honesty:
i do not live in seattle
i have never been to seattle.

but i havent wanted anything else as much.
i hate it here
i hate that ive been here my whole life
idk what it is
maybe its the rain
it is the rain
i want it so much
it doesnt rain here enough. not enough for me at least
i want it all the time

i have a car right now but it wont take me up to washington.
i love my car. its just 40 years old and it has over 200,000 miles on it
hah
so.

things i need to achieve in order to start this new life:
car
money (check)
ambition (check)

2 out of 3
im almost there.

What did I tweet today?

• 18:51 Three 11-year old girls are partying at my house. The squee factor is through the roof. #

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And it made me realize what's wrong with marriage in America. There is a complete lack of matrimonial flamethrowers. I think that this is just what we need to save marriage.

I wasn't happy with the layout of the signal generator board, so I redid it.

A few times.

It's good now.



Programming pins for the microcontroller and the clock are now exposed (so I don't have to program them before I solder them), and both polarities of the signal generator are routed as well so you can use it as a differential output. It's only marginally larger than the earlier layout as well.

And it's quite pretty, in a Mondrian-esque sort of way.

-tanjent

Sodomy and aspirin therapy are contra-indicated.

• 07:02 @vpynchon Dennis Miller counts, I think. #
• 07:29 bit.ly/17PpJN Some people doomed by name. Like this guy. And ex-professor Dick Pervo, convicted of possession of kiddie porn. #
• 07:31 bit.ly/3o8ETE Em-I-cee, kay ee why . . . #
• 07:32 bit.ly/2FkgC Very considerate cops; note the last 'graph. #
• 12:12 Orlando shooter appears to be disgruntled former employee? #
• 12:13 @MarkWBennett @ScottGreenfield I was going to go with "underly creative." #
• 12:15 @glennm Okay -- why would the chimp attack the suing victim? #
• 12:17 @ScottGreenfield A blind squirrel does catch a few acorns, and yeah, I did. "Prosecutor Offers Woman Position On His Staff" #
• 12:25 @dbrauer You didn't know you were married to her before? #
• 12:26 @dbrauer Wasn't there an episode or three on Friends like that? I've often thought of you as a Ross Geller type, but . . . #
• 12:27 @Leo_Pusateri First approximation: disgruntled ex-employee; probably not copycat. #
• 12:28 @dbrauer How would you know? Seriously. #
• 12:31 @Leo_Pusateri Certainly possible. We'll know soon enough. #
• 12:31 @dbrauer And, just to continue to be serious for a change: sure. #

/tweets

The novel is coming along. I have no idea from one scene to the next what I'll be writing, I'm just making it up as I go along, and trying to end each day's writing (or each chapter, if it feels like a good place for one) with a cliffhanger. Both for practice at writing a cliffhanger and also because it gives me a hook for the next day's writing session.

I haven't worked on any other fiction this week, alas. I'd hoped to do so but it just hasn't happened. Maybe next week, now that I'm less worried about getting my novel writing done. I don't feel as much pressure now; I still don't think this novel is going to amount to anything, but I feel a lot more confident in my ability to get it down on paper (or carved in electrons) in a reasonable amount of time.

Quantity, as the Soviets used to say, has a quality all its own. Let's run the numbers, shall we?

• On my worst day so far, I wrote 1,736 words. So 1736 words x 30 days = 52,080 words. More than long enough for many an epublished novel, based on my research into various epub sites, but not really enough for a dead tree novel from a New York Publisher. Even so, if I take two months to write a novel at that rate, at the end of sixty days I'll have 104,160 words. Now we're talking!
• My best day so far clocked in at 3,855 words, or 115,650 words in 30 days. That's more than enough for a New York published novel.
• My six day average is 2,670 words. Over a month, that adds up to 80,115 words, or somewhere in low-to-mid range of words for a novel from a New York publisher.

All of this is a long-winded way of demonstrating to myself that writing a novel length story is well within my power. It's something I've worried about. I've never done it before, but experience will go a long way toward convincing me (and my skeptical subconscious) that it's possible. And that's good.

Why? Because once I've demonstrated to my own satisfaction that I can, in fact, write a novel-length story, I can spend more time and attention on making it a good one. One step at a time, baby. One step at a time.

Project: Strange Attractors
New Words Written: 3,277 (good)
Present Total Word Count: 16,023 words
Goal: 50,000 words by November 30




Stories in Circulation: 12 <---one less today because...
Rejections: 20
Stories Accepted: THREE! <---...I sold another one!

( These are my tweets for the past day... )

My roommate is at Harborview with a friend who's about to go into surgery, and he just texted me that the suspect from the police shooting on Halloween was apprehended by the police and shot and is at Harborview now, so the whole hospital is on lockdown!!! Apparently they acted on a tip and went to the guy's house and he drew a gun, so they shot him.

It has been nearly a week since The Big Broadcast of 1938 went up at the Somerville Theatre. I can say without reservation that it was worth it. Thrashing my voice, getting the Martian Sickness afterwards, feeling completely overwhelmed... everything. It was all worth it, and I'd do it again; after I graduate.

I had a couple of people ask me what it felt like to be performing on the same stage as U2 and Bruce Springsteen and so on, and the answer is "I didn't think about it much." There's plenty to pay attention to without standing there looking astounded. If anything, I thought about it as adding to the legacy, instead of basking in someone else's.


Then again, when I got there a little bit before call time, and there were no other actors around, I walked onto that stage.

Ka-click, ka-click, ka-click, ka-click, ka-click, step, shift, stop.

I stood on that stage, and I looked at the 900 empty chairs, and I closed my eyes, and I listened, and for that small, finite, and yet immeasurable amount of time, I did feel the magic, and I understood the history I was about to become part of, and I allowed myself to be in awe.

Then? Well, there was a rehearsal to get ready for, and the green rooms were downstairs.

Ka-click, ka-click, ka-click, ka-click, ka-click, step, pause.

"Good night."

Ka-click.

Lights.

• 16:53 Scheming #openbank systems architecture w @mikecotton at @samovar castro. This is gonna rock! #
• 17:38 Dear universe thank you for all the wonderful smart people helping w #openbanking. I can haz OCC regulator/auditor? #
• 19:20 awesome! RT @Halcyon: Guess who is the new model for Splat!'s "Pink Fetish" hair color packaging?!? www.splathaircolor.com/kits.html #

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If you can watch Tom Smith's tribute to Jim Henson and not get even a little choked up, you're not a human being.



Unless of course you managed to grow up without the Muppets, then you're just a tragedy.

In the vein of privacy features and directed self expression, the profile feature of the site will allow nicknames / display names that are shown to the categories of people you choose.  To keep things real, there will also be legal name and age fields that can be revealed or not according the same sort of custom privacy settings.  Verified legal names will be made distinct, so folks won't be able to convincingly spoof other people.  For the early beta, there will only be one nickname, and showing that or the username will be the only choices available.  Later versions will allow users to set up multiple profiles, presenting a different side of your personality to specified categories of people.

Many folks I've talked to are tired of the misleadingly named "friends" category, often used for people one don't know at all.  On this social site there will be sensible relationship categories, such as Fan, Connected, Friends, Work, Family and the tag of Trusted that one can apply to any individual or group.  No-one will be able to see which category they're in, unless you choose to reveal it, and even then they'll only be able to see other people in the categories you've specifically revealed to them. In other words, you'll be able to keep your personal, work, family and public lives separate, without automatically revealing to anyone that something is being kept private.

Comments? Suggestions?

Hello,

My brother is visiting (he's from Florida) and he wants me to take him to a good seafood place. I am vegan so I am unaware of such places in the city. I live in Queen Anne but have a car so anyplace is okay. Downtown is a plus so I can show him stuff down there. What's your favorite?

Thanks

I just saw THREE snowflakes while looking out my office window.

We're all going to die.

Discuss.

Places that sell themed and/or local touristy postcards, such as the San Francisco Exploratorium, should also sell thematically appropriate stamps of the correct denomination, and have an outbound mailbox.