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philipbrewer

@philipbrewer@wandering.shop

I write science fiction and fantasy stories.

I speak Esperanto, and use it to communicate internationally. Esperantistoj, legu mian esperantan hejmpaĝon.

For a while I taught Taiji.

For eleven years I was a senior writer at Wise Bread, writing about personal finance and frugality.

Before that I spent a quarter-century as a software engineer.

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hacks4pancakes , to random
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Inspector just came to my house and told me not to plug normal household stuff into the new 14-50 NEMA outlet and I have a lot of questions boy I tell you

philipbrewer ,
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@hacks4pancakes Is this some very short-term issue due to some emergency related to the building or neighborhood wiring?

philipbrewer ,
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@hacks4pancakes My chargers are rated for up to 240v. Surely they'd let you go 5% over that without letting the smoke out. Right?

philipbrewer ,
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@hacks4pancakes Yikes.

futurebird , to random
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Gonna get listed in the yellow pages as an "ant psychologist" ... I'll find out why your ants are too nervous... or aggressive... or depressed. Give me a call!

philipbrewer ,
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@futurebird I want a photo with you sitting next to a tiny little couch with an ant on it, presumably telling you its troubles.

futurebird , to random
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Thinking about world building & the consequences of “too much” history. In many sci-fi tales parts of history are forgotten— some cataclysm results in a society with about as much history as we have: some 20k years with the last 2000 being most referenced and the last 100 (living memory) of real consequence.

But what if you had a million years of detailed written history? What about a billion? I think there is a reason so many sci-fi stories have the trope “we forgot the location of earth”

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@futurebird In David Brin's Uplift stories, it is suggested that the Earth benefits from its very limited access to the galactic library—Earth scientists have already discovered a couple of things that library users "know" are impossible, because aliens tested them long ago and reported that they don't work.

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Mabel may look fully grown but she's definitely still a puppy.

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philipbrewer ,
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@Cloudscout Last time I boarded my dog they let me know that she was pooping bits of purple plastic.

"Yeah," I said. "The last night I was home she tried to eat the Roku remote."

philipbrewer ,
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@Cloudscout Yep. They're a great boarding space (associated with our vet as well).

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