The spreadsheet refactoring was worth every minute spent on it. Having a change ripple through 26 tabs without any copy/paste is the way spreadsheets are supposed to work. In my defense, this is the first spreadsheet I’ve ever created with so many tabs referencing each other. I created my first spreadsheet in VisiCalc on anContinue reading “Refactoring 27 & TMT”
Author Archives: Mark
Loophole From Hell!
As I’m sure you’re all aware by now, Marcy’s off in her time dilated magic training. What I haven’t mentioned is that her instructors are aliens (well, not really; they’re dungeon recreations of aliens). They need to know lots of multiverse stuff just as life background. They can pass that on. For any particular fact,Continue reading “Loophole From Hell!”
ISO Audit Failure
So much for repeatable process. Warning: If you’re reading this, it’s very likely that you don’t care. This is a long string of notes to myself about what goes wrong with formatting. BLUF: Checklist updated with: Check cellTable and span numbers from highest to lowest. cellTable should be in single digits. span should not exceedContinue reading “ISO Audit Failure”
Sexual Dimorphism in Wolves
I just realized (blame the beer) that if I’m writing a gay werewolf story, I should have some idea what male wolf features are distinctive and normally “attractive” to the opposite sex. AI to the rescue: What are the sexual dimorphisms of wolves? This is wikipedia without the links. What is an inguinal region ofContinue reading “Sexual Dimorphism in Wolves”
Done, Again
Chapter 19 was done on 3 Oct. Chapter 23 was done on 15 Oct. Chapters 21, 22, and 23 are done again (25 Oct), with some kids! None of them have been named, yet, but they exist. Chapter 24 remained done, thankfully. No room for kids in that one. Chapter 25 got done (with kids).Continue reading “Done, Again”
Kids (one?)
There’s always a “two”. Should I just start out with “one” in these? Anyway… Train of thought: Because today is Farmers Market day, I was thinking about the 12 and 14 year-old boys on the cattle drive (Lessons of an Immigrant Father, which I bought at the Farmers Market). How would kids grow up withContinue reading “Kids (one?)”
Good News / Bad News
Good news: Reading on the Kindle is causing me to see things I haven’t noticed before. Bad news: I can’t read my book on my Kindle without being at the computer. I keep noticing problems. If I just keep reading, they’ll never get fixed. I need to fix them as I find them, which meansContinue reading “Good News / Bad News”
Marcy’s Story
Our town needs spatial storage to make harvest work. Where do they put everything? It’s usually shipped away so the elevators only need to hold a fraction of what’s harvested. If the local farmers are consolidating in the town, they’re leaving their silos behind. Marcy is our promising young (sixteen) mage. For reasons, Bob isContinue reading “Marcy’s Story”
OK, Fine
Every time I open Chrome, it prompts me to create images. I succumbed. I used prompt 3. two distinct foreground people (large black wolf:1.4) AND (muscular man:1.1) in bluejeans, tight white t-shirt, boots, glowing axe, outside, dry hills, moonlight, photo fantasy style, [anime], [cartoon] I will make one more attempt adding “clean” to the clothingContinue reading “OK, Fine”
Last Kindle Issue?
I put all the system notifications in the System Notification style. It may not be creative, but obvious has its own virtue. I have the normal style (really “Default Paragraph Style”) configured to indent after an end-of-line (“carriage return” sounds old fashioned, even to me). I don’t tab, it just auto-indents the first line ofContinue reading “Last Kindle Issue?”
