5/23/09

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Try a Story Idea Prompt
So if you are stuck for ideas, here are some prompts:

    * What was your favorite childhood pet?
    * Where was your most memorable vacation?
    * What topic most inspired you in grade school?
    * Where is a place in the world you'd like to visit?
    * What is the most adventurous thing you have done?
    * Who was an influential authority in your subject discipline?
    * Or just describe a collection of things such as
          o Five attributes of a great writer
          o The top technology gadgets of the future
          o Most important discoveries in your field
          o Favorite cars, vegetables, flowers, tools
          o Collection of things that don't belong

Why is it I have such a hard time writing down stories?

Dileep refers to "Bolles' book" I find this work provides a very rich metaphor for my experience of perception and belief.

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more) new circle, condemned man, tenth night, second sack, first sack, sledge port, pure theorics, chalk hall, upper labyrinth, library grape, sledge train, other fids, shock piston, pusher plate, causal domain, remote hermitage, north nave, page trees, machine hall Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more) Fraa Jad, Fraa Orolo, Fraa Lodoghir, Warden of Heaven, Ignetha Foral, Daban Urnud, Sæcular Power, Fraa Erasmas, Praxic Age, Fraa Paphlagon, Thrown Back, Jules Verne Durand, Saunt Edhar, Warden Regulant, Suur Asquin, Third Sack, Day Gate, Suur Trestanas, Fraa Osa, Ganelial Crade, Bly's Butte, Ringing Vale, Clesthyra's Eye, Shuf's Dowment, Hylaean Theoric World

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JSON ... it's the intersection of all modern programming languages. All languages have some sense of data, and structures of data. They all have simple values like number strings, and booleans. They all have some sense of a sequence of values. ... Every language has some sense of a collection of named values; it might be an object, or a record, or a struct, or a hash, or a property list, or something. All languages have these, these are universal ideas.

... But they all have the same idea about what the data looks like, and JSON has the thing that's common to everything. By being at the intersection, it turns out to be the thing that everybody can agree on, so it's really easy to pass data back and forth.

Prior data interchange formats tended to try to be the union of all the languages, and that turns out to be horrendously complex, and very difficult to deal with. JSON, by being so simple, actually became really easy to use.

    * Snap a picture of your screen.
    * Record video of onscreen action.
    * Share instantly over the web, IM, email.

Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born February 8, 1974) and Thomas Bangalter (born January 3, 1975).[1] Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and were met with continued success in the years following.[2]

Daft Punk is also credited with producing songs that were considered essential in the French house scene. They were managed from 1996 to 2008 by Pedro Winter (Busy P), the head of Ed Banger Records.[3]

...with a laser pointer, 3 AA batteries, a small audio transformer, a solar cell and a amplified speaker.