birdsite, finance
@ceoln We're just not brilliant enough to understand the brilliant workings of such a brilliant mind. Oops. Did I say "brilliant"? I mean to say evil and corrupt.
Tonight, after I put my hearing aids to bed in their little padded container, Leonore heard them making noises (which I couldn't hear because, of course, I wasn't wearing my hearing aids). They were turned off and therefore, in theory, shouldn't have been able to do anything. And yet they were doing something. I wonder if they were uploading the day's data to the FBI or someplace even scarier. Probably not.
@EvilOverlady I listen to whatever's on the classical station.
@lucifargundam @Euclid42 Ah, memories!
I learned FORTRAN on the job at NASA. I knew nothing about computers and had to learn very quickly under considerable pressure. It's a good thing I was in my 20s at the time.
Probably not a lot of people know this now, but Mastodon's web app started out with "Publish". In 2016 a famous YouTuber jokingly offered to support Mastodon's Patreon forever if I changed the button to say "Toot" instead. Needless to say, this was a really early, and not very informed decision. The first glimpse of attention and financial support. As a non-native speaker I had no idea there was another meaning.
It was so long ago that it no longer feels quite real to me.
#introduction
Before retiring, I was an aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander), software developer, and tech writer. But that was to pay the bills. I think of myself as a writer -- mostly sf, some horror, some mystery, some (yet unpublished) fantasy. Lots of details at www.dvorkin.com
My wife and I also help writers self-publish. You can find out more at www.dldbooks.com
In theory, I should be writing much more now that I'm retired. In practice, that's not happening. I blame the Internet.
@brandonb_phy I can indulge myself because I'm retired. And now also very tired.
I'm an atheist and I'm on Mastodon, but I don't know what the bird site is.
@mitchwagner I don't have a comeback for that.
@mitchwagner A major character in my WIP is named Mitch, and I keep seeing your face on him, even though he has nothing at all to do with you (I created him decades ago). It's disturbing. I might have to change his name. Or you could change yours. That would be far easier for me.
Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.