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fun quote(i) = (i <= 0) orelse (print "'" andalso quote(i-1));

fun tomato(j) = quote(j) ^ "you say tomato I say " ^ tomato(j+1) ^ quote(j);

tomato(0);

All of which is really just sort of an anecdotal amusement to me. I'm typically the only person in any office setting who only has one monitor, or one monitor and a laptop, and folks wonder how I get anything done, and I wonder how they maintain focus with all the things they're looking at all the time. À chacune sa goûte.

Of course, i may just be crazy and there may be real benefit I'm denying myself. It wouldn't be the first time. I used to write fiction in vim, too.

Now, of course, that second monitor is definitely an option again. I know @mawr recommended one to me, but I've forgotten the model (( Hey, @mawr, can you shoot me a link to that portable second monitor? )) but I've gone so long with a single monitor and my habits adapted to it that I don't really feel like the second screen would benefit me all that much, and I suspect the ability to leave distractions on the other screens would impede my work progress.

I don't remember when it was that I made the transition to "laptop as primary computing system," but at some point I abandoned the desktop. I don't even remember the circumstances. I just remember that, at some point, portability became the thing I cared about and needed most, and docking stations weren't that high on my priority list. So multimonitor was just never really an option because that second monitor had to be as portable as the rest of my rig.

I remember being multimonitor at some point in my ancient past. My parents had an old IBM with a physical switch that toggled from "PC" to "AT" speeds (2.86MHz to 4.33MHz), and if you flipped it while the machine was running, weird shit happened. Usually stuff crashed. That computer had a monochrome monitor I ran at 132x43 and a CGA I later upgraded to EGA just to play new games on it.

... fuck.

Cuffy Meigs is President.

So far, Visual Studio has let me, and by extension everyone else on my team, define a library
* as a reference (Common Properties->References)
* as a library (Linker->Input)
* in a directory (Linker->General)
* by inclusion in stdafx.h
* by inclusion in #pragma comment
* by inclusion in a precompiled header package.
* as a property file.

There may be more than one right way to do things, but "more than one way" is the wrong way.

Important links so far today, in unsorted order:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemianism
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin#Federalism
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Parsons
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency

I hate having to do shit like this. I am proud of my ability to do it.

Today's tech horror: "Hey, buni, can you figure out what version number of this software library we're using based on the copyright notice?"

Turns out, yes, I can. The copyright notice gives the last year we got an update, which in turn gives me a possible range of code commits which would have been our last. Visually diffing source files against files in those commits narrowed down the version number to "the last one for which we had all the commits."

And with 3204 words today, the postscript to Delivery is finished. This one's going to RAWR, but before I even ship it there, it probably wants at least one sensitivity reader. Damn.

I know I was supposed to get the posting schedule up today, but the story ended up taking a good chunk of my emotional reserves, which... I think is a good thing, but a hard thing. I'll work on the schedule over the week and get that up, and also start my June release. That one should be less fraught!

@acetone_kitten I learned this word today. I think I found my new team.

Hey, @acetone_kitten: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat

TFW in trying to research information for a writing assignment you accidentally find information relevant to your own personal belief:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temenos

1220 words on First Mother: Revival. I'm going to pause here because I have Shadowrun tonight. Tomorrow I'll finish up -- I'm expecting this one to hit 4500, but I had to get through the names and a few descriptions -- and document the Patreon schedule.

#writing