Help give me a name!
Have you ever wondered what my name is? I don’t actually have one other than Awoofriend, and I don’t have any stories to go with it! I’d really love your help building my history, and the awoo.space staff are holding a contest to pick the best name and short story for me! (I’m so excited!!!)
The winner will have a still from their backstory drawn by my mum, @kyra - and a $25 digital gift card for either Amazon.com or Steam!
Okay, off to breakfast with @ElectricKeet, and then to sit down and hammer out my RAWR round one critique entry. The epilogue to Blessings of the First Mother should stand alone, so about seven people will get to see that early.
They stood at the edge of the clearing, eyes on the horizon, not turning as they spoke. "I call myself Jani, but the pronunciation changes a lot. Kind of like I do." They turned and flashed a warm-eyed smile before looking back into the distance. "It's my job to keep an eye out... there!" They pointed at a flare on the horizon. "Friendly signal fires, looking to share light to hold back the darkness. That and I keep our fire lit, so new friends can find us." They offered a paw. "Welcome."
"Vegetarian."
#Seattle folks, watch out when ordering Domani's on Bite Squad. I... I don't think this is how you food: https://awoo.space/media/fi5lS3ju1hWHtpWIi3E https://awoo.space/media/zbmGg_vXf0fU_tpLqFY https://awoo.space/media/KaG59hFxf_nsP30M248 https://awoo.space/media/-Dzhv1YWObvdZiZqIEk
Magic, Language
Pursuant to Keet's unicode symbol of the day, one thing I keep thinking Sofi needs is the incorporation of glyphs/ideograms for common ideas. Not just alchemical symbols but things like these:
& (et, and)
ā (ante, before)
c̄ (cum, with)
p̄ (post, after)
q̄ (quisque, every)
s̄ (sine, without)
@ (<unk.>, at)
Not every preposition, necessarily, but many common words would end up with formal inclusion in the language as documented shorthand.
Actually, I'm gonna take this father:
"Identity", in the deepest sense, is the *process* of how you become the most yourself, not just what you happen to be at any intermediate step.
@BirdMachine did you get your tickets for the stupid hackathon yet?
Apropos of everything, hey @acetone_kitten, if we buy the weed, will you come play KSP for us at some point after Beta is reassembled? I miss watching your space missions. Or better, can we help you stream that stuff with music in the background and commentary? That was awesome.
Also, the Royal Canadian Air Force Exercise Manual is actually a self-torture regimen and everyone should be made aware of it. It's awful, disgusting, and good for you.
Work Terror
Somebody built 201 C++ and C# projects in the same TFS directory structure. Third-party libraries from source, thirty-two and sixty-four bit versions side by side. Five different methods of including libraries found so far.
"Hey, buni, go extract the cURL system to a side file so we can get it out of our build tree." Nice and simple. I've been here for three hours and I only just now understand how much more work there is to do.
And yet... nobody else did it.
"A somewhat experimental animated 100x100 pixel icon, for Roshiyo. A rat wizard person plays around with a little blue fireball FOREVER."
https://twitter.com/Bimshwel/status/861785338154557441 https://awoo.space/media/7QDq1key5zQHhRK0eOw
"Research shows prejudice, not principle, often underpins 'free-speech defense' of racist language"
Hey it's a pagan article of the day, two days in a row!
http://paganbloggers.com/critter/blog/2017/05/09/on-pagan-writing-styles/
This one is actually really relevant to the conversations with @literorrery et all last night!
Account inactive -- moved to weirder.earth