Two In Three

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The carnival ride of coffee & donuts has let me off. My flippancies about labels and contentment are, like my breakfast, not very nutritious.

Listen, @mattgemmell@mastodon.scot is very correct about this “content creation” thing. It is a matter of not becoming contemptuous of your own materials.

Suggestions for 3 attribution labels better than “content creator”

• Authorrex: authors which really author the shit out of it.

• Authorette: authors just getting started with smaller keyboards.

• Authoroni: authors like me just repackaging the ramen.

Riding the tilt-a-whirl, juggling machetes, rethinking the corn-dogs, so…pretty chill. What are you up to?

Blind taste tests need not remain exclusively the province of ads for drinks.
Conduct them yourself, on yourself, have some fun, and maybe even learn something!

• Switch a familiar UI to a different language, see how that tastes.
• Build a meal around a spice you have difficulty pronouncing, etc.

If I just press down the keys hard enough, then they will understand, right?

Most debilitating is when I try to stop for a moment and attend to the actual obtaining circumstances of my own life. I can’t help seeing my collection of problems and challenges for what they are, ludicrously simple, laughable unimportant, and the opposite of urgent. I must find a way to do it anyway.

Sipping coffee, taking in the view. A few school age children waiting for a ride. “Nice smiles…they’re ready for the day” This suddenly pushed out by new thought “What if someone comes up and starts shooting them?” Now I’m crying, ready to stand in front of them, but from which direction?
GodDamnIt!

Don’t think of it as falling. Think of it as a forced advance on the ground, and you can’t miss! ♜

Do you know what you ask kids? “What do you think you’re doing?”
Do you know what you ask grown-ups? “What are you doing?”
Do you know why? Because grown-ups know and kids think they know.

And, yeah, I know I’m a kid sometimes… [ kicks at the dirt, head bowed ] ….