Many years ago the Unicode Consortium has a fundraiser where you sponsored and emoji. Someone at my company sponsored one and posted to the internal mailing list. Short story short a couple dozen of us sponsored stuff and the company paid us back and wrote a cute blog post. Cheap marketing. Felt good.
"I once ran the Indy 500. I must confess I'm impressed how I did it I wonder how close that I came."
Pickled okra is wonderful. That a gumbo are the only way I can eat the slimy stuff. Pickling seems to burn away the slime.
I like this explanation. I don't think we can do a lot better than this one at this point.
I think a fun next step is "forget what's real, I want to write a story with humans interacting with aliens that's consistent with what we see now." What do you have to invent to make it work? Nothing really works for me. But stuff like the dark forest is good. I can suspend disbelief enough to enjoy it.
I bought some $50 open back headphones a while back and they a just worlds better than anything I'd had before. Is there a step up from there that'd similarly rock my world?
My mic is pretty similar. $100 got me an SM58 and it's wonderful. You have to basically eat it and I can peak it if I'm loud. But it sounds so much nicer than most things. I know there's a few steps up from there. But I don't sing so think I'm fine.
I feel lucky to have avoided this so far. It's really not like this on my team. I write a fair bit of code and review a ton of code.
I love that proco being a pig is treated as mildly weird. His relationship with the fascist government is more important to the plot than that he is a pig. No one else is an animal. It's just a thing that happened to him. You can tell it's a big deal to him, but no one else really cares. You could remove him being a pig and the story still works fine. It just makes the regret and inadequatecy more obvious.
I think I like Howel's Moving Castle more. But it's close. That one gave me a whole author.
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