Last week we tooted proposing #PitMasto, a version of #PitMad for mastodon.
We're currently developing the idea and thinking mid-January, which would give authors time to finish and edit their #nanowrimo masterpieces. (At least in theory, we know how NaNo can be. 😜 )
If you're interested in a day for authors to toot pitches for their novels and hopefully catch the attention of an agent and/or publisher, please favorite or boost this toot.
{8} A poll in two questions
If I were to actually run a <insert mumbling, rustling of paper, glitchwhistle, gearcrank, typewriter bell> con, would anybody attend? Knowing that it would have to be con-shaped and con-aspected, would anybody actually think it'd be worth doing?
If I were to actually try to codify the bulldada in my head, would anybody actually read it? Knowing that I can only transmit post-encoding glyphstreams and not qualia, would anybody care about my third-hand reality?
Thanksgiving, the Riemann Series Theorem, and Postmodernism http://orrery.prismaticmedia.com/2017/11/23/thanksgiving-riemann-postmodernism/
Exhaustion
I had one turkey prepped that had to be cooked, so I made it to take with me to game last night, but I started microsleeping in the Observatory while I was waiting for it to finish cooking. I passed out last night at 21h, give or take.
I woke up at 04h30 this morning after a dream about one of my implants breaking. So that's fun. And now my body says "time to be up! Work tomorrow!" but my gears are still stuffed with cotton.
At least my feet no longer hurt.
Exhaustion
Bandaza was amazing. It was also exhausting. Fifty-seven people came to share in the joy and celebration. We collected $65 for Northwest Harvest. I was on my feet for eleven hours. I have at least one essay to write and some amazing ideas to ponder. On the flipside, I got very little sleep Saturday night; the ibuprofin didn't help my feet and the weed did but also kept me up until 5am. I got a brief snooze, but it wasn't enough.
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So, uh...
Masto's webui has that "filter by regex" option. And it takes regexen, as it should.
A single letter -- v, specifically -- is a valid regex. I wonder how long that'd been there. Got a lot more toots to read now.
UX suggestion: have a visible "(Filtered)" in the header of any column with an active filter so people can at least know a filter is active.
Reminder: Whenever you go to apologize but then realize it isn’t something you should apologize for and you wonder what to say instead: SAY THANK YOU. Your apologetic instinct is to lower yourself to raise up someone else, and the raising is great but the lowering is unnecessary: Just give them the blessing. Say “thank you for waiting” instead of “sorry I’m late”. It works.
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