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  1. I did not expect to have to use this reference book today - or indeed ever - in my job as a computer wrangler.

  2. FUNNY BUT TRUE ... if you write about something using the actual vernacular of the distant future then nobody in the present will be able to engage or understand it.

    #random #errtling #writer #writing #bookcafe #history #language #context #morphology #lexicon #fiction

  3. Archival Directive 00-Sigma: The Shelf-Stalker doesn't know you're there. That's what makes it worse. It isn't watching you. It isn't hunting you. The pile just looks exactly like a pile — until you reach in. You were never meant to be here. The room just hasn't told you yet.

    #OutpostLog #Lexicon #ThreatAssessment #RieldResearch #TTRPGCommunity #Lore

  4. Design Principles M-3: The Shelf-Stalker has no tell. No growl. No posture shift. Nothing that says "this one is different."
    That's not an oversight in the design. That's the design.
    The most dangerous thing in the room is the one that looks like it belongs there.

    #Bestiary #Lore #Lexicon #TTRPG #TabletopRPG #GameDesign #WorldBuilding #IndieCreator

  5. Apple autocorrect: I have never and will never use the word "Shiftiness." I often use the word "shittiness," however.

    #Apple #autocorrect #ios #lexicon

  6. "But after a dramatic pause, the computer flashed a bunch of red exes and a message: THE PLAY IS NOT VALID. Cam threw his hands behind his head in disbelief." —Stefan Fatsis for Defector

    defector.com/competitive-scrab

    #Scrabble #ScrabbleTournament #Lexicon #Dictionary

  7. Tomorrow there will be a live on Mixcloud. I found some really interesting tempo randomized patterns with the #Wogglebug plugged with a kick drum in the #Moog and some strings in the #Vital synth, all mixed up in the #Soundcraft incredible #Lexicon effects.

  8. While we're talking of #math #lexicon, do fractions in the form (1+n)/n (with n nonzero integer) or their reciprocals n/(1+n) (with n ≠ 1) have a name? I have a feeling that they appear freuently enough that they should deserve a name (I don't think I've ever read or heard them be called one in any language in which I've read math-related literature, though, so maybe they just don't).

  9. #math #lexicon question (sorry, I studied these things in Italian, so I don't know the English term). How do you call a sequence or series whose terms have alternating signs *but only after a few terms*?

    Think something like
    1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 ...

    #mathHelp