Hi!

I have a potential weekend/summer activity for you. So, there’s this thing called “NaNoWriMo”, or National Novel Write Month. It’s a time when a lot of authors try to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. That happens in November.

In July, however, the same organization runs “Camp NaNoWriMo“. For the “Camp”, you can choose what your writing goal is, in terms of the number of words. But it’s still very similar. And it started up again today, July 1.

At the very least, it’s a way to stay occupied during July, if you have nothing else to do…

(Or even if you do. You know. Whatever.)

Happy Friday!

Hello!

Earlier today, my laptop apparently declared war on its desktop. As in, the normal background, and the ability to minimize things, failed. COMPLETELY.

I guess that something had activated full-war mode by telling my little machine it was a tablet…?

Anyway, I was only able to get my laptop to surrender and reinstate the desktop by telling it was not a tablet. So it’s all fixed now. But it was totally weird.

Have a lovely day!

Hi there!

So. Interesting discovery the other day.

If you **accidentally** shift your right hand over a letter on a conventional qwerty keyboard, you can totally change the meaning of a sentence.

For example, if you have your right hand in the proper position, then you can convert, say, kilometers to miles. If your right hand is off-by-one to the left, however, you can magically transform distances into explosives! (Miles turns into nukes.)

So, yep.

That was an interesting day.

Have a lovely weekend!

Hello!

I don’t think I shared this previously. The 2015 Bulwer-Lytton “Bad Opening Sentence” competition winners are up. As usual, they’re hilarious and worth reading. (Some of them are not entirely “kid friendly”, though. As a warning.)

Happy Monday!

Hi!

Friendly reminder that today’s Father’s Day.

I hope you have a good one!

Hi!

I have recently become aware of something I’m rather fond of that could have an interesting connotation: a type of “electric chair.”

Now, by that, I mean there are now recliner sofa thingies that require an electrical outlet. Because they recline according o a mechanism. This means that you can adjust to what extent the footrest goes up or down, and how far back the back goes, without needing to do more than push and hold a button.

Some even have a place to plug in USB-powered devices.

They’re pretty nifty!

So, yeah. Electric chair, because they require electricity.

Yup.

Happy Friday!

Hello!

It occurs to me that some people (myself included) may value being exhausted a bit too much. You see, it’s a continued sign of “I can DO the things!”

And “Neener neener, I do more of The Things than YOU do!”

After all, we kinda assume that everyone is able to do similar amounts of Things in similar amounts of time. Thus, if someone spends more time on doing The Things, they do more Things than we do.

Or at least they’re more responsible. You know.

Anyway, that of course leads to a fair bit of pride in being exhausted. After all, “I did the things!”

So, yeah. Have a lovely day!