I was musing that it would be hilarious if Zuck and Musk did their weird little pay-per-view fight and nobody came, and my husband enthusiastically interrupted me and say, "No. I'd 100% pay to watch that!!!"
I reminded him he could see all the good highlights afterward, but no — he apparently wants to see every punch and slap.
nostr:npub1lqrxm8k9v4529qkz3k4tpx6x6pgn4jrv544thys94p3p6vzycq2s43ql3r Thanks. It is. Just a few relatively minor frustrations I need to figure out.
I just almost made an apostrophe error in a paragraph about apostrophe errors. Time is a flat circle (or something like that).
#AmWriting #AmWritingTooLateInTheDay
Thank you all you wonderful, brilliant people! The book is "Spartina" by John Casey.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/25049/spartina-by-john-casey/
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/25/books/man-meets-boat-meets-hurricane.html
OMG! I still need to fact check this, but I'm praying it's true because I am dying to use this example the next time I talk about the ethics of using ellipses. It's perfect.
I can still use it if it's fake, but it's so much better if it's true.
(Do any of you happen to know what this book is?)
Have you ever noticed we make words that end in "y" plural in different ways? Here's why they're not all the same. https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/how-to-make-words-that-end-in-y-plural/
I have noticed that I am doing a weird thing (for me) in ChatGPT: I type my sentences in all lowercase and usually without punctuation.
I'm mirroring how I type a Google search instead of how I type regular sentences, even though I'm using plain-language sentences as prompts.
Have any of you noticed you are doing this too?
#ChatGPT
nostr:npub1df2n0uv82p8x08reytykaxfjer9cxgy2mcclnc6mxm7xyp54e24qtgnr30 More job security for me, I guess, when students get jobs and find they need to learn how to write better. (Or maybe everyone will just be using ChatGPT.)
nostr:npub1esha7f4m7zfc7rlyg7ufeysw8prq76f6edjr7ajh686raeeg5gsqkt5fqz nostr:npub15kndwzxnttratr5qfk5e3t7jam3n5stseghg83w0fh96glq3wk5sc4hql7 Definitely. It's one of many things we need to be doing.
This video of a house falling into a flooded river is stunning. House go bloop.
The water was released by a glacier-dammed lake in Juneau, Alaska. Glad nobody was hurt.
https://www.juneauempire.com/news/record-flooding-from-suicide-basin-swamps-homes-cuts-off-access/
h/t nostr:npub1aq2wqds7uk7g9tfv6gmm2qk0t6cmqmpzh5n9hkdghgx3d0x75syspa4nfw
Thus begins my artsy plan …
nostr:npub1hvzjvzfmclu5l5zk65fxye5cgt7e0qvs6rcn60z72v9hy79mmpzq4qmle9
Reminds me of Clarke’s descriptions of The White Hart.
I lived in the Seattle burbs in the late 80s and early 90s. So I could have gone. But I’d never heard of it. Bummer.
If you haven’t read Arthur C. Clarke’s “Tales From the White Hart”, i think you’d really like it. It’s a collection of short stories the last of which is “The Defenstration of Ermintrude Inch”.
nostr:npub1s73dchr9sken6elswskn95ysanhgpchqwtxnwsp0pa8s3fufz40q297k29 Thanks! "Tales from the White Heart" does sound like something I'd enjoy.
nostr:npub1hvzjvzfmclu5l5zk65fxye5cgt7e0qvs6rcn60z72v9hy79mmpzq4qmle9 I realize upon a second reading that “I turned around and started working there” is ambiguous. I worked at the UW, not at the Last Exit.
nostr:npub16j3rlmh6a8xlr2erm88d9p6rvgz95ayhgg7d7jvw56njwqavlzmqfvqpnj Ah, I thought you had worked at The Last Exit.
When I couldn't find it again, I knew, of course, that it had closed. But a small part of me wanted to believe it had gone back through the mists to fairyland.
nostr:npub1hvzjvzfmclu5l5zk65fxye5cgt7e0qvs6rcn60z72v9hy79mmpzq4qmle9 Amazing. As I read the first sentence, visions of the Last Exit filled my head. I spent an inordinate amount of time in that place from the mid 80s to the early 90s (when I graduated from UW, I turned around and started working there, so, kept up my Last Exit habit.)
Rumor has it that the marble tables along the walls had a previous life as urinal dividers in a correctional facility.
nostr:npub1hvzjvzfmclu5l5zk65fxye5cgt7e0qvs6rcn60z72v9hy79mmpzq4qmle9 And I was thinking Café Nervosa?
nostr:npub1hz790xez0njsgyztafnk635dkyjlykjvq92qkraymmwjpkkmpfzse5mh8n I remember that one too!!!
During college, I sometimes hung out at a quirky little tucked-away coffeehouse in Seattle.
Years later, I looked for it on a visit and couldn't find it or remember its name. But a friend mentioned it last night, and I immediately looked it up!
It was The Last Exit, and I had no idea it had such an interesting history. I just knew it felt like stepping into a magical "other" place.
nostr:npub1q5sptv0e49p86dpmt06kz5ghne4hl7qjekxxnygn7nnn5ldhslssratkwr Henry V played an important part of making English the language of England again after the Norman Invasion. http://www.englishproject.org/march-henry-v-and-french-language
nostr:npub1hvzjvzfmclu5l5zk65fxye5cgt7e0qvs6rcn60z72v9hy79mmpzq4qmle9 wait, a rack for carrying a surfboard on a bike?? How big of a bike? How small of a board?
nostr:npub15av4v4z5yqy3hl2l3la6sd7ry70j3g4mshvj7ynyrr63j3k07r0qaxvae3 Yeah, it was wild. It was a full-size surfboard and a normal-sized mountain bike. It was parallel to the bike on one side. I didn't see how he pedaled. (Between the board and bike?) It seems like it would be bad in a strong wind, but otherwise ... nifty!