David Dvorkin @DavidDvorkin@qoto.org

@obi Hah!

@obi The author finally lost all interest.

@georgetakei Perhaps the kind of man who says that leaves the disaster behind him thinking that he really did fix it.

It seems to me that, strictly speaking, you can't write your autobiography because you don't know how it ends until you're at the end, at which point you're unlikely to feel like writing or to be able to if the end is sudden and unexpected. Even if you could write the end, it would be something like this: And now, my friends, as I reach my end, I want to sum up everything I've learned in my long and eventful life in the form of this vitally important messa

#writing #writingcommunity

Hmm. I could swear I've seen you somewhere before.

@mitchwagner Best to stick to simple smilies, then.

These replies are quite telling.

(I have no idea what I mean by that.)

"Time will tell" is an odd expression. Of course time will tell. It always does.

That should work, shouldn't it?

@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.

I thought Boebert was toast, but it seems she's only somewhat singed.

The ancient Greeks would say that Trump is just about to be punished for hubris.

@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.

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 I think of myself as a writer -- mostly sf, some horror, some mystery, some (yet unpublished) fantasy.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.