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Teyrnon

@Teyrnon@dice.camp

Starving Writer, Introverted Storyteller, Pen-and-Paper Gamer, Foolish Idealist, Far Horizon Romantic, Lover of Weird Conversations, and armchair Philosopher.

Interests include: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Folklore, Philosophy, Photography, Computer Graphics, Vintage Computers, Vintage Video Games

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I'm sure I meant to type "certainly not," but somehow, I typed "certain notly" instead. I guess I'm just continuing my tradition of insane typos.

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Taking a moment to ponder if anyone makes a thumbdrive designed to be easily labeled. Obviously, low profile models are right out. It doesn't appear to be a feature that anyone designs these things for.

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I feel like I should point out that sometimes when I call something a "recent innovation," I mean it came about somewhere in the last century or two.

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It's interesting the things that wake you up at night. At about 3:00 AM this morning I awoke with a burning desire to know how large of a text could fit on the floppies I used in my first computer with a disk drive. About 35,000 words.

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@Teyrnon Wow. A novel would take up three at least. I remember when you could make .zip files to span across floppies.

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@SJohnRoss @Teyrnon Aw man, GURPS. That takes me back. I never got a chance to play it, but what a fun idea

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Never go to a troll bar unless you are a troll or something larger and tougher than the average troll. It won't be a pleasant experience and it's likely they'll eat you for your troubles. Know your place in the fantasyland food chain.

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For what it's worth, I think time travel was entirely overused in the 90s and 00s era of Star Trek. I suspect this was the main reason I drifted away from watching the shows regularly. I only caught the very occasional episode of Voyager after its second season. The less said about Enterprise's Temporal Cold War the better.

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I'm looking for something fun and playful with light horror elements to read as a palate cleanser after reading some truly unpleasant stuff for work. What do you suggest?

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Random Musing: Cemeteries are the absolute last place any self-respecting ghost will hang out. Why would anyone want to haunt their own grave when there's a whole universe out there? On the other hand, prime haunting spots would be libraries and movie theaters because even the dead need entertainment.

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What do you think? Which of the following works best for you?

"for once and all"

or

"once and for all"

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I will never understand people who think it's okay to walk over to someone reading a book, rip it out of their hands, look it over, and demand to know why they're reading it.

Just give me back my book and go away already!

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Does anybody else ever feel disconcerted and dismayed when someone asks your favorite book as though there's only one book to list and not the hundreds or thousands of titles that would tie for first place on any list of favorites? How can they be so thoughtless and callous as to ask me to choose only one?

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A tradition in practice for a hundred-fifty years is not remarkably short. People think their traditions are ages-old, even the ones that became traditions while they were children. Sometimes, especially the ones their parents dreamed up one Christmas because everyone was bored to tears. In fact, if you have a tradition in your family or town with a factual and well-documented history dating back more than three or four generations, that's the exception and not the rule.

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Is it cheating that what I used to call a first draft I now call an outline?

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Some days I very much miss being part of a local writing group.

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I remember reading the Belgariad and Mallorean by David Eddings in 1990 mostly because the people I knew at the time simply would not stop talking about them. I read the Elenium and Tamuli of my own accord and was surprised to discover that the people who were so insistent the Belgariad was a must-read seemed clueless that Eddings wrote other series. I also recall being a little discombobulated by the striking similarity of the plot between the series.

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