Nolan’s movies are just vehicles for Zimmer’s music.

Matter of taste. For my part, I don’t like watching movies with anyone who can’t carry a conversation while it’s happening. I love getting the live reactions and theories as the movie is still playing out.

This is partner. It’s like a tic. It’s actually amazing to watch. It’s like they become possessed by the spirit of cinema and start babbling about the most obscure trivia you’ve ever heard.

Fortunately, I love it.

I love that kind of stuff. Both me and my wife do it, then we theory craft. We try to guess twists before they’re revealed.

This obviously doesn’t work well without subtitles.

Conceptually, sure. But the last big setpiece made no sense from a visual perspective. I feel like you would need to show an overhead view of the map simultaneously, to actually keep track of what was happening.

From the link…

Microsoft provides the Israeli military with Azure cloud and AI services that are crucial in empowering and accelerating Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip.

Welcome to the writing club! For drafts or snippets, I can recommend https://pads.slrpnk.net/ for quickly sharing anything that is too long to fit in a comment. I’d love to proofread a new draft!

Sounds like you’ve got some great measurable goals there. I look forward to hearing your update next month. :)

I think that counts as a “hiatus” if only because if it doesn’t then I have a lot to answer for. :P

Speaking of, how are you all setup for writing?

I use neovim as well! I’ve been using vim for a long time, and I find the keybinding great for navigating prose ({} for jumping over paragraphs, () for sentences, etc). I’m experimenting with the following plugins: vim-pencil, limelight, goyo, as well as some others, unrelated to writing. Although personally I would recommend you be judicious about adding plugins to your .vimrc, because they can quickly get out of hand. I also use the kitty terminal for easy splitting of the view, as well as for the animated cursor_trail, which makes it easier to visually track the cursor jumping all over when you’re using vim motions. :)

Good luck with your writing. It’s great feeling the creative energies coming on, and then choosing how to direct them! :)

Good luck on your certification, and I totally agree–I love hearing everyone’s updates especially when I haven’t been able to do much myself. And of course, it makes me feel better feeling from other people who haven’t had the bandwidth to be creative this month, too. :)

Thank you so much. 🥰

That sounds so rewarding! I’m glad you had a good month, even if it wasn’t doing “traditional” writing. Good luck on Section B!

causing the pacing to feel somewhat meandering.

This is something I notice in a lot of fiction (books, movies, shows, etc; stories, in short). That “meandering” sense, which I dunno maybe it can work for really character-driver works, but either way it’s harder to the reader to hold their attention if things don’t seem to be happening in a cause-and-effect way that they can follow.

RE starting a new project, are you at the point with this one where you are getting lots of ideas for different projects? I get that a lot, anyway.

So exciting that your trilogy is well underway!

My goal… remains unchanged 🙈 I did some thinking about my story, but no real work (despite a friend even reaching out to offer to brainstorm with me!). Just in other personal news, though, I’ve really picked up my job search again–trying to find something full-time before the end of the year, and it looks like I might have found something in eduTech. 🤩 🎓 So fingers crossed there.

I’m hoping once I have a full-time income that I’ll be able to, like, really focus on relaxing / being creative during the evenings and weekends, rather than thinking about how I should be searching for a job. We’ll see!

Thanks for this. There are no perfect solutions in this world, and you’re right–it’s something. Maybe I can use what influence I have in this role to set up the next generation of tech workers to do better than we did.

The deep cut has formed into a rift. I’m almost completely burned on the notion of doing any good in this world with my tech skills. I’m applying to work at a university now, which at least is a bit more of a public service. But it still is selling the next generation on corpo tech, and credentialism.

I’m not sure my money work can ever really be a net good.

Damn it’s always the evil ones with the cake. Just think of the good he could have done…

I think we all project but just lie to ourselves about it. Maybe I’m projecting though too

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Though she might try to couple with your head–fruitlessly, of course.

Give poor person money: they spend the money.

Give rich person money: they use it to leverage more money out of the economy of working people.

Wow so good at business look at all the money they’re stealing.