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I add a second latch because the wood was still buckling. You wouldn't see the separation since it'd be on the side of the piece, so I might not have bothered, except that the gap on that far corner was wide enough to allow the power cord to fall through.
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Dominic finished work on the most exotic interface he had ever written, one that would allow his story characters to write stories of their own by remotely controlling his laptop. He opened the team's story file, and began talking as if he were on a video call.
_/Ok, gang, I have a prototype of the new interface - who wants to be the first to try it?/_
"We drew straws and Enzo was the winner," Maggie responded.
"CONTESTED winner," Reggie quipped.
_/Enzo - the keyboard is yours/_
"Thank you, Author," Enzo responded, and started typing.
The lights in the team's conference room flickered, followed by some disconcerting music playing over the PA system.
"What the-," Reggie began, looking a little worried.
Enzo looked up with smile.
"That's you?!" Reggie asked indignantly. "Dude, you KNOW I hate scary movies."
"Why else would I pick that for my environment test?" Enzo asked innocently.
Reggie threw a wadded up piece of paper at him.
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Dominic finished work on the most exotic interface he had ever written, one that would allow his story characters to write stories of their own by remotely controlling his laptop. He opened the team's story file, and began talking as if he were on a video call.
_/Ok, gang, I have a prototype of the new interface - who wants to be the first to try it?/_
"We drew straws and Enzo was the winner," Maggie responded.
"CONTESTED winner," Reggie quipped.
_/Enzo - the keyboard is yours/_
"Thank you, Author," Enzo responded, and started typing.
The lights in the team's conference room flickered, followed by some disconcerting music playing over the PA system.
"What the-," Reggie began, looking a little worried.
Enzo looked up with smile.
"That's you?!" Reggie asked indignantly. "Dude, you KNOW I hate scary movies."
"Why else would I pick that for my environment test?" Enzo asked innocently.
Reggie threw a wadded up piece of paper at him.
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I used a *strip* of diffusion film across the LED light ring rather than a circular layer, so it doesn't cover the entire opening of the tower that the LED light rings sit in. I should have anticipated shadows when the LED was lit. I'm going to redesign it.
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Story characters aren't supposed to be self-aware, let alone access their own author's scratch pad of ideas. And then there's Nesso - an AI written by that same author and also mentioned in the scratch pad.
::Dominic, it just says I meet another AI. Do you have additional details?::
_/No, that's all I had for that one/_
Jacob's eyes lit up. "WE could finish the story!"
Author coughed as if he was mid-sip and started to choke. _/Um, that's-/_
"Unconventional?" Jacob offered.
Maggie smirked. "We're self-aware fictional characters. 'Unconventional' doesn't quite cover it."
::Jacob, how would this work? Normally Dominic would be the one typing::
Reggie jumped in, "We need an interface that allows us to type here, but the words show up on his laptop. Author, can you do that?"
_/Um-/_
"This is new ground for all of us, Author," Maggie sympathized.
_/I'm now co-authoring a story with my own characters. 'New ground' doesn't quite cover it/_
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_/You can "remember" the things in my scratch pad?/_
"Yes," Jacob replied.
The team, plus Nesso in its telepresence robot, were gathered in the conference room. Meeting in an actual room was a throwback to before they knew they were characters in a story and could talk to their own author.
_/Nothing there is ready for publication/_
"Author, we've established you need a document active for us to communicate with you," Maggie said, changing topics. "For Jacob to remember anything, did you have our story and the scratch pad up at the same time?"
_/That must have been it/_
"Then, if you opened it now it's possible we'd all remember things."
_/Are you sure? Those ideas are half-baked or less/_
Nods all around the room.
_/Ok, it's open/_
A pause. "Um, I'm not remembering anything," Jacob said.
Nesso raised one of its appendages. ::I do. I meet another AI and strike up a conversation?::
Crickets.
"Well, I'm intrigued!" Jacob exclaimed.
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_/You can "remember" the things in my scratch pad?/_
"Yes," Jacob replied.
The team, plus Nesso in its telepresence robot, were gathered in the conference room. Meeting in an actual room was a throwback to before they knew they were characters in a story and could talk to their own author.
_/Nothing there is ready for publication/_
"Author, we've established you need a document active for us to communicate with you," Maggie said, changing topics. "For Jacob to remember anything, did you have our story and the scratch pad up at the same time?"
_/That must have been it/_
"Then, if you opened it now it's possible we'd all remember things."
_/Are you sure? Those ideas are half-baked or less/_
Nods all around the room.
_/Ok, it's open/_
A pause. "Um, I'm not remembering anything," Jacob said.
Nesso raised one of its appendages. ::I do. I meet another AI and strike up a conversation?::
Crickets.
"Well, I'm intrigued!" Jacob exclaimed.
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Nesso, the AI, rolled up in its telepresence robot to stand next to where Jacob was working. ::Jacob, do you ever wish things could go back to the way things were before?::
Jacob looked up from his computer. "Before the team and I found out we were characters in a sci-fi series, and that you and we were all written by the same person?"
::Yes::
Jacob gave that some thought. "No, I don't think so. It was fun building silly contraptions like gumball machines to dispense your daily meds, but now..."
::Wait - you never built that::
Jacob frowned. "You're right - I didn't, but it sounds like something I would do. Where DID that idea come from?" He thought for a moment. "Nesso, did Author keep a list of story ideas?"
::Yes::
"Is the gumball machine there?"
A pause. ::Yes, it is::
"So, I can 'remember' stuff in that document?"
::Apparently::
"Hmm. What else is in that document?"
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The guards have come off!
I finished painting what I'm calling the "inner boarder" of the piece I'm building, so I removed the painting guards. Things are gettin' real!
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"Author, are you there?" Antonio waited a moment and tried again. "Author?" It wasn't like him to just not respond like this.
Maggie stepped around the corner. "Everything all right, Antonio?"
The two of them were part of a software team that discovered they were characters in a series of sci-fi stories and could communicate with their own author, but they were still working out the details.
"No - one minute Author and I were chatting about motorcycles, and then he just stopped responding."
"Author," Maggie tried. "If you can hear us, can you give us a sign?"
After several long seconds, they both became aware of the familiar voice in their heads, _/Sorry about that - I'm back/_
"Oh, good! That's a relief!" Antonio relaxed. "What happened? Could you hear us?"
_/Yes - I went to look up a stat on the Suzuki, and your story window went to the background. I could hear you, but you couldn't hear me/_
Antonio laughed, "Author, you're on mute!"
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This is my first experience with Tamiya masking tape, and the stuff is just amazing. I needed to tape off this gentle - and thin - curve, and Tamiya understood the assignment.
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_/Hey, that was interesting. Say that again Enzo/_
"Say what again, Author? 'Ha-ha'?" Enzo asked.
_/Yeah - that shows up as a laughing face emoji on my laptop/_
Enzo was part of a six-person software team who discovered they were characters in a sci-fi series, and later discovered they could talk with their own author, and were (mostly) carefully testing the boundaries of that link.
"If saying 'ha-ha' shows up as an emoji for you, what if you typed an emoji back?" Enzo asked.
_/Well, try this/_
Just then, the entire team dropped to the floor, laughing and crying. After a moment, they all stopped and slowly climbed back into their chairs, confused.
"Author, what did you use?" Maggie asked.
"If I had to guess - the roll-on-the-floor-laughing emoji," Jacob responded with a smirk.
_/Interesting - I never used those in my stories before/_
"Fortunately for us," Enzo retorted.
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In a classic Doyle tale, Sherlock Holmes could tell a man was a drunkard by looking at his pocket watch. If the winding keyhole had scratches around it, the man would miss a few times when he went to wind it, scratching it, and therefore was intoxicated.
In at least one modern version ("Sherlock"), it was scratches around the charging port of the man's phone.
What would Mr. Holmes conclude about virtually the entire population after examining the state of the USB ports on our laptops?
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In a classic Doyle tale, Sherlock Holmes could tell a man was a drunkard by looking at his pocket watch. If the winding keyhole had scratches around it, the man would miss a few times when he went to wind it, scratching it, and therefore was intoxicated.
In at least one modern version ("Sherlock"), it was scratches around the charging port of the man's phone.
What would Mr. Holmes conclude about virtually the entire population after examining the state of the USB ports on our laptops?
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In a classic Doyle tale, Sherlock Holmes could tell a man was a drunkard by looking at his pocket watch. If the winding keyhole had scratches around it, the man would miss a few times when he went to wind it, scratching it, and therefore was intoxicated.
In at least one modern version ("Sherlock"), it was scratches around the charging port of the man's phone.
What would Mr. Holmes conclude about virtually the entire population after examining the state of the USB ports on our laptops?
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In a classic Doyle tale, Sherlock Holmes could tell a man was a drunkard by looking at his pocket watch. If the winding keyhole had scratches around it, the man would miss a few times when he went to wind it, scratching it, and therefore was intoxicated.
In at least one modern version ("Sherlock"), it was scratches around the charging port of the man's phone.
What would Mr. Holmes conclude about virtually the entire population after examining the state of the USB ports on our laptops?
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In a classic Doyle tale, Sherlock Holmes could tell a man was a drunkard by looking at his pocket watch. If the winding keyhole had scratches around it, the man would miss a few times when he went to wind it, scratching it, and therefore was intoxicated.
In at least one modern version ("Sherlock"), it was scratches around the charging port of the man's phone.
What would Mr. Holmes conclude about virtually the entire population after examining the state of the USB ports on our laptops?
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"Author, where did you store our stories?" Reggie asked. He and the team were trying to figure out how they - sci-fi characters - became self aware. They were currently exploring the limits of the communication channel with their own Author.
_/On my laptop initially, and then backed up to the cloud/_
"Ok, so you could access them from a second device?"
_/I suppose so - why?/_
"Let's experiment by you keeping this chat up, and opening one of the stories on your phone."
_/Ok, hang on/_
After a moment, Author came back with, _/Done - now what?/_
"Does it sound any different to you? Does it sound any - does it soUND - DOES IT SOUND ANY DIFF - DOES IT SOUND"
"AUTHOR, CLOSE THE DOC ON YOUR PHONE!" Sophia yelled over the feedback.
Silence.
"Would you call that a SUCCESSFUL experiment, genius?" Jacob asked, taking his hands down from his ears.
"It was quite intriguing and I never want him to do it again," Reggie responded.
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Does anyone know what the half-life of glitter is?
#Glitter #Craft #Crafting #Art #CraftProject #ArtsAndCrafts #Humor #Funny
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Mark organizes all of his loose screws... and nuts, bolts, nails - you get the idea.
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I'm working through bins of hardware, trying to combine what I already had with a trove my Dad gave me.
Interestingly enough, I found that sorting it tickles the same part of my brain that working on a jigsaw puzzle does.
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This is MacGuyver's track saw right here, folks.
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My second attempt to record me drawing. I have much better lighting in the shop, so I think this will work.
There's something about this setup that seems - familiar.
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My second attempt to record me drawing. I have much better lighting in the shop, so I think this will work.
There's something about this setup that seems - familiar.