Curt Doolittle

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    photos_and_videos/your_posts/36304217_10156457027982264_341732023548772352_n_10156457027977264.jpg I found an awesome coffee shop for writing! Finally.Sergey Chmelev“it’s common knowledge that I said I would try to never touch anything of theirs again”

    – wrote Curt on a Mac with MIcrosoft Office installed

    🙂 🙂 🙂Jun 27, 2018 4:35pmZach MattoIt’s really awesome seeing people sharpening their minds in rational and civilized conversation and debate here. I see in this picture a whetstone on the right and a master craft in progress on the left.Jun 27, 2018 4:39pmCurt DoolittleCollin Turney I Identify with propertarianism. lolJun 27, 2018 4:41pmCurt Doolittle;) hugs brother.. lolJun 27, 2018 4:42pmCurt Doolittlelolz…. I have more…. Apple Mac Pro Server as well. And somewhere I have a mac mini.Jun 27, 2018 4:43pmAngus JamesonShow off competition!Jun 27, 2018 4:50pmCurt Doolittleoooohhhh… working in the loft rocks!Jun 27, 2018 4:51pmAngus JamesonMacBook Air powering the 27” Apple Cinema Display.Jun 27, 2018 4:52pmAngus JamesonCurt Doolittle it does. Feeling of looking down on everyone and everything. Essentially male.Jun 27, 2018 4:53pmCurt DoolittleMy log house. Messier than yours…. lolJun 27, 2018 4:55pmCurt DoolittleSame idea.Jun 27, 2018 4:55pmCurt Doolittleshared values. lolzJun 27, 2018 4:55pmAngus JamesonGo figure. Here’s the complete tour. It’s been the 2nd home for 15 years or so. Burnt halfway to the ground six weeks after I bought it, and put my own image into the rebuild. Even the floors are pine.

    4,200 feet in the Sierras. My full time place for two years now.

    https://youtu.be/hYqB5s5ub34Jun 27, 2018 5:01pmAngus JamesonBut yours is log. Envious. I’ve considered doing a log facade on the exterior for years.Jun 27, 2018 5:05pmCurt DoolittleLog is great for the thermal mass, but I would do D logs (flat inside) if in some strange universe I had another one, and use the same for the interior walls.

    I”m sorta a condo in a tourist section of the city kinda guy now, but if my health sticks maybe I’ll think about a house again.Jun 27, 2018 5:13pmMaxim V FilimonovA mac is basically a somewhat up-to-date unix on fresh hardware out of the box. Also comes with every mainstream-y feature that exists. A pity it doesn’t do ZFS quite well, tho.Jun 27, 2018 5:40pmCurt DoolittleIs that you Brandan? 😉Jun 27, 2018 6:25pmAndrew ClaytonHave they taken their entire staff away to educate them in diversity and inclusivity? If not, bigot….Jun 27, 2018 6:34pmEric BestI like that PC is modular. I hate that apple is not and they charge you a premium for your lack of choice.Jun 27, 2018 6:39pmCurt DoolittleIf someone had asked me to pick your office from from twenty photos of offices, I would have picked this one ten out of ten. So you…Jun 27, 2018 7:10pmCurt Doolittle^ you pay a premium for a guarantee that you don’t have to touch the hardware, and that everything will work (other than office) without crashing.Jun 27, 2018 7:12pmCurt DoolittleOur company used to develop the OEM biz side of msft, and it was really, really obvious that microsoft made a good decision originally to allow others to build hardware, but fuck up by not producing their own hardware so that they could create a reference platform (as does apple) that other suppliers would have to equal.Jun 27, 2018 7:13pmEric BestI agree with that assessment, and MSFT is basically burning their customers now by trying to become more like apple in that way long after the fact. Having gotten into computers in the early 90s I have a soft spot for the old “wild west” that was the glory days of the PC (90s – mid 2000s).Jun 27, 2018 7:21pmSkye StewartCurt Doolittle I had a few additional paintings on the wall ( im minimizing and moving out soon) and there is a nude behind the door. Otherwise, I try to keep clutter low :)Jun 27, 2018 7:47pmCurt Doolittleuh huh. Like I said… lolz -hugsJun 27, 2018 7:51pmJeff UrizenYou need a third one for porn hub!Jun 27, 2018 7:57pmStephen KlostermeierCurt Doolittle Health Sticks? Curt???Jun 27, 2018 7:58pmCurt Doolittle???? what is a health stick?Jun 27, 2018 7:59pmCurt DoolittleOh…. My health is better (sticking with me) and I might do even betterJun 27, 2018 8:00pmMurray SellLooks peaceful.Jun 27, 2018 8:00pmCurt Doolittle(zero tolerance policy for allergens is the only way)Jun 27, 2018 8:00pmStephen KlostermeierWait are you sick or do you just hate allergies?Jun 27, 2018 8:01pmCurt DoolittleI have some health issues that are largely due to my immune system being compromised by cancer and allergies. So I just have to be very careful. I’d be fine living in the woods on fresh kill but contemporary life is just full of chemistry.Jun 27, 2018 8:05pmStephen KlostermeierWell.. damn.

    Sorry to hear that manJun 27, 2018 8:07pmCurt DoolittleHey. I’m still here. That’s at least five times I didn’t think I would be…… ;)Jun 27, 2018 8:37pmStephen KlostermeierYou better stay that way too mister

    We got a paradigm to shift!Jun 27, 2018 8:37pmIvan DiazI despise Microsoft too. Go FOSS.Jun 27, 2018 9:13pmJohn MarkCurt does your book include a new constitution, or is that a separate project? (With recent political events, leftists intensifying harrassment, etc, I’m thinking we might need one sooner rather than later.)Jun 28, 2018 9:30amCurt DoolittleI had to break the book apart because it was too big, and so I have two books, one shorter that is targeted to reforming libertarianism, and one much much longer targeted to revolution and constitution. The first and shorter book is more technical, and the longer book more explanatory. The reason being that I had to burn a long time on the Grammars and I felt that I could now get the shorter book out ‘shortly’ and then take the technical component and move it into the larger book. This means that the two books have similar technical content, but the larger book ignores ‘temporal’ issues (liberty, freedom, libertarianism), and contains entirely the new law.Jun 28, 2018 9:39amJohn MarkGreat Curt, thank you again for doing what you are doing.Jun 28, 2018 9:43amCurt Doolittle(What I *can* say is that I have definitely gotten to the point where I can explain everything to a freshman college student. Which I never thought would happen.)Jun 28, 2018 9:46amJohn MarkIf you are able to do that even with some of the denser stuff (some of what starts to hurt my 135-ish IQ brain) that’s very good & quite an accomplishment.

    I don’t know if it’s me having better understanding due to more time with your material, or change on your end, but I feel like your FB posts have gotten more accessible too. Maybe a bit of both factors.Jun 28, 2018 10:24amCurt DoolittlebothJun 28, 2018 10:26amSkye StewartLeddihn’s Declaration;

    https://phillysoc.org/collections/tributes/tributes-to-erik-ritter-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/the-portland-declaration/Jun 28, 2018 1:24pmCurt DoolittleI bet 100 years ago that would have seemed a reasonable bit of prose, but as I read it today, it’s rather…. ridicuous from the outset. But I cannot help it if people require comforting falsehoods. I can only seek to prevent them from spreading them or influencing the polity. ;)Jun 28, 2018 1:28pmSkye StewartCurt Doolittle he is a LiberalJun 28, 2018 6:35pmI found an awesome coffee shop for writing! Finally.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 15:57:00 UTC

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    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_43196237263/36304217_10156457027982264_341732023548772352_n_10156457027977264.jpg I found an awesome coffee shop for writing! Finally.Alexander BrownBest regardsJun 27, 2018 3:58pmGeorge Perceval OswaldGee, Curt, your mother lets you have TWO laptops?Jun 27, 2018 4:00pmStephen KlostermeierDamn that does look peacefulJun 27, 2018 4:03pmIvan DiazIs that a fucking MacbookJun 27, 2018 4:05pmCurt Doolittleit’s two of them…..Jun 27, 2018 4:08pmMaxim V FilimonovStill, better than anything with windows.Jun 27, 2018 4:08pmCollin WiemerBetter be careful Curt- if you spend all your time dropping gems on fb you’ll never finish the magnum opus.Jun 27, 2018 4:14pmCurt Doolittle(I love mac. I get a unix platform, with a killer UI, on hardware that pretty much never fails, at the cost of not being able to play games. )

    When you make your living having MSFT as an abusive customer for decades everything on the platform brings up depressing if not traumatizing memories and makes you feel dirty … it’s common knowledge that I said I would try to never touch anything of theirs again. I switched to mac before I sold the business and the only reason I’ll buy MS again is to play games – if I ever in my life have a week I can afford to lose to playing games.

    Apple is a bunch of fuckups now and Satya is better than Ballmer, so until either MSFT splits the OS’s and makes its own hardware that’s best in the world, or Apple makes it even harder to do pro work on their platform, I’m staying mac.

    I write code and I write text and I consume information. Mac is perfect.Jun 27, 2018 4:16pmCurt Doolittleit doesn’t work like that. I sort of roll something around in my head while doing this nonsense, and then disappear for twenty minutes to an hour while I write it. Then repeat.

    I’ve got so much stuff the real work is just trimming it down and summarizing. it’s not like I’m sitting here coming up with shit out of thin air. Is just really editing for readability.Jun 27, 2018 4:17pmCurt Doolittle@[100000136226175:2048:Collin Turney] Have you ever spent any time inside the MSFT organization? Been a Blue Badge? A vendor?Jun 27, 2018 4:18pmCollin WiemerPhew I was worried for a secondJun 27, 2018 4:19pmCurt Doolittle2014 and 2010 top model each year. Very pleased.Jun 27, 2018 4:26pmSergey Chmelev“it’s common knowledge that I said I would try to never touch anything of theirs again”

    – wrote Curt on a Mac with MIcrosoft Office installed

    🙂 🙂 🙂Jun 27, 2018 4:35pmZach MattoIt’s really awesome seeing people sharpening their minds in rational and civilized conversation and debate here. I see in this picture a whetstone on the right and a master craft in progress on the left.Jun 27, 2018 4:39pmCurt Doolittle@[100000136226175:2048:Collin Turney] I Identify with propertarianism. lolJun 27, 2018 4:41pmCurt Doolittle;) hugs brother.. lolJun 27, 2018 4:42pmCurt Doolittlelolz…. I have more…. Apple Mac Pro Server as well. And somewhere I have a mac mini.Jun 27, 2018 4:43pmAngus JamesonShow off competition!Jun 27, 2018 4:50pmCurt Doolittleoooohhhh… working in the loft rocks!Jun 27, 2018 4:51pmAngus JamesonMacBook Air powering the 27” Apple Cinema Display.Jun 27, 2018 4:52pmAngus Jameson@[741197263:2048:Curt Doolittle] it does. Feeling of looking down on everyone and everything. Essentially male.Jun 27, 2018 4:53pmCurt DoolittleMy log house. Messier than yours…. lolJun 27, 2018 4:55pmCurt DoolittleSame idea.Jun 27, 2018 4:55pmCurt Doolittleshared values. lolzJun 27, 2018 4:55pmAngus JamesonGo figure. Here’s the complete tour. It’s been the 2nd home for 15 years or so. Burnt halfway to the ground six weeks after I bought it, and put my own image into the rebuild. Even the floors are pine.

    4,200 feet in the Sierras. My full time place for two years now.

    https://youtu.be/hYqB5s5ub34Jun 27, 2018 5:01pmBradan O’FaheyJun 27, 2018 5:03pmAngus JamesonBut yours is log. Envious. I’ve considered doing a log facade on the exterior for years.Jun 27, 2018 5:05pmCurt DoolittleLog is great for the thermal mass, but I would do D logs (flat inside) if in some strange universe I had another one, and use the same for the interior walls.

    I”m sorta a condo in a tourist section of the city kinda guy now, but if my health sticks maybe I’ll think about a house again.Jun 27, 2018 5:13pmMaxim V FilimonovA mac is basically a somewhat up-to-date unix on fresh hardware out of the box. Also comes with every mainstream-y feature that exists. A pity it doesn’t do ZFS quite well, tho.Jun 27, 2018 5:40pmSteve PenderJun 27, 2018 5:44pmCurt DoolittleIs that you Brandan? 😉Jun 27, 2018 6:25pmAndrew ClaytonHave they taken their entire staff away to educate them in diversity and inclusivity? If not, bigot….Jun 27, 2018 6:34pmEric BestI like that PC is modular. I hate that apple is not and they charge you a premium for your lack of choice.Jun 27, 2018 6:39pmSkye StewartJun 27, 2018 6:44pmCurt DoolittleIf someone had asked me to pick your office from from twenty photos of offices, I would have picked this one ten out of ten. So you…Jun 27, 2018 7:10pmCurt Doolittle^ you pay a premium for a guarantee that you don’t have to touch the hardware, and that everything will work (other than office) without crashing.Jun 27, 2018 7:12pmCurt DoolittleOur company used to develop the OEM biz side of msft, and it was really, really obvious that microsoft made a good decision originally to allow others to build hardware, but fuck up by not producing their own hardware so that they could create a reference platform (as does apple) that other suppliers would have to equal.Jun 27, 2018 7:13pmEric BestI agree with that assessment, and MSFT is basically burning their customers now by trying to become more like apple in that way long after the fact. Having gotten into computers in the early 90s I have a soft spot for the old “wild west” that was the glory days of the PC (90s – mid 2000s).Jun 27, 2018 7:21pmSkye Stewart@[741197263:2048:Curt Doolittle] I had a few additional paintings on the wall ( im minimizing and moving out soon) and there is a nude behind the door. Otherwise, I try to keep clutter low :)Jun 27, 2018 7:47pmCurt Doolittleuh huh. Like I said… lolz -hugsJun 27, 2018 7:51pmJeff UrizenYou need a third one for porn hub!Jun 27, 2018 7:57pmStephen Klostermeier@[741197263:2048:Curt Doolittle] Health Sticks? Curt???Jun 27, 2018 7:58pmCurt Doolittle???? what is a health stick?Jun 27, 2018 7:59pmCurt DoolittleOh…. My health is better (sticking with me) and I might do even betterJun 27, 2018 8:00pmCurt Doolittle(zero tolerance policy for allergens is the only way)Jun 27, 2018 8:00pmStephen KlostermeierWait are you sick or do you just hate allergies?Jun 27, 2018 8:01pmCurt DoolittleI have some health issues that are largely due to my immune system being compromised by cancer and allergies. So I just have to be very careful. I’d be fine living in the woods on fresh kill but contemporary life is just full of chemistry.Jun 27, 2018 8:05pmStephen KlostermeierWell.. damn.

    Sorry to hear that manJun 27, 2018 8:07pmCurt DoolittleHey. I’m still here. That’s at least five times I didn’t think I would be…… ;)Jun 27, 2018 8:37pmStephen KlostermeierYou better stay that way too mister

    We got a paradigm to shift!Jun 27, 2018 8:37pmIvan DiazI despise Microsoft too. Go FOSS.Jun 27, 2018 9:13pmJohn MarkCurt does your book include a new constitution, or is that a separate project? (With recent political events, leftists intensifying harrassment, etc, I’m thinking we might need one sooner rather than later.)Jun 28, 2018 9:30amCurt DoolittleI had to break the book apart because it was too big, and so I have two books, one shorter that is targeted to reforming libertarianism, and one much much longer targeted to revolution and constitution. The first and shorter book is more technical, and the longer book more explanatory. The reason being that I had to burn a long time on the Grammars and I felt that I could now get the shorter book out ‘shortly’ and then take the technical component and move it into the larger book. This means that the two books have similar technical content, but the larger book ignores ‘temporal’ issues (liberty, freedom, libertarianism), and contains entirely the new law.Jun 28, 2018 9:39amJohn MarkGreat Curt, thank you again for doing what you are doing.Jun 28, 2018 9:43amCurt Doolittle(What I *can* say is that I have definitely gotten to the point where I can explain everything to a freshman college student. Which I never thought would happen.)Jun 28, 2018 9:46amJohn MarkIf you are able to do that even with some of the denser stuff (some of what starts to hurt my 135-ish IQ brain) that’s very good & quite an accomplishment.

    I don’t know if it’s me having better understanding due to more time with your material, or change on your end, but I feel like your FB posts have gotten more accessible too. Maybe a bit of both factors.Jun 28, 2018 10:24amCurt DoolittlebothJun 28, 2018 10:26amSkye StewartLeddihn’s Declaration;

    https://phillysoc.org/collections/tributes/tributes-to-erik-ritter-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/the-portland-declaration/Jun 28, 2018 1:24pmCurt DoolittleI bet 100 years ago that would have seemed a reasonable bit of prose, but as I read it today, it’s rather…. ridicuous from the outset. But I cannot help it if people require comforting falsehoods. I can only seek to prevent them from spreading them or influencing the polity. ;)Jun 28, 2018 1:28pmSkye Stewart@[741197263:2048:Curt Doolittle] he is a LiberalJun 28, 2018 6:35pmI found an awesome coffee shop for writing! Finally.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 15:57:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. ( Talking about the benefits of socialization

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    ( Talking about the benefits of socialization while waiting in line for coffee… Trying to think. I bet I’ve spent almost as much time talking to Gates and Balmer waiting in line at Starbucks as I have in meetings with them … lol. Not true but seems like it. BTW: Satya is good, and I’ve only done one large deal with him and his people, but he’s certainly waaay better than Ballmer, but he’s not a competitive predator like Gates. I learned quite a bit from Gates really. Just by observation, and watching how he managed the company. Man after my own heart really. )

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-27 13:12:44 UTC

  • ( Talking about the benefits of socialization while waiting in line for coffee..

    ( Talking about the benefits of socialization while waiting in line for coffee… Trying to think. I bet I’ve spent almost as much time talking to Gates and Balmer waiting in line at Starbucks as I have in meetings with them … lol. Not true but seems like it. BTW: Satya is good, and I’ve only done one large deal with him and his people, but he’s certainly waaay better than Ballmer, but he’s not a competitive predator like Gates. I learned quite a bit from Gates really. Just by observation, and watching how he managed the company. Man after my own heart really. )

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  • In a coffee shop. Had to tell two typical self centered millennial teens working

    In a coffee shop. Had to tell two typical self centered millennial teens working the place that ‘this isn’t your living room it’s a place of business, and you’re both too loud and sharing what you shouldn’t”.

    Girl ok, apologizes. Non-hetero male – huff-and-puff storm.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-21 17:17:00 UTC

  • ( I’m a non-existent father, but I love my kids. My daughter is … perfect real

    ( I’m a non-existent father, but I love my kids. My daughter is … perfect really. omg i’m so lucky. Her mother gets all the credit. 😉 )

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-18 01:05:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1008515902990639105

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    photos_and_videos/your_posts/35301258_10156425506512264_8805407650926821376_n_10156425506507264.jpg MY ENTIRE LIFE THESE DAYS…Connor WhittleVertical is the bestJun 14, 2018 9:56amGeorge HobbsAppreciation beyond wordsJun 14, 2018 9:57amCurt Doolittlelens distortion. Just laptop for notes and full size monitor for copy.Jun 14, 2018 11:18amNick Boerare you interested in writing scripts?Jun 14, 2018 11:26amCurt Doolittle( I use Scrivener for Scripts and documentation. It was not working well for me with this book. Too many crashes. So I went back to word. )Jun 14, 2018 11:31amJonathan WilburUsing VS Code like a true menschJun 14, 2018 11:32amCurt Doolittle????Jun 14, 2018 11:33amJonathan WilburCurt Doolittle I thought that was the dark theme business at the bottom.Jun 14, 2018 11:33amCurt DoolittleSublime. I use Sublime for large text and text manipulation.Jun 14, 2018 11:34amJonathan WilburNice. Nearly as good.Jun 14, 2018 11:34amBill JoslinDamn! I can’t read itJun 14, 2018 11:54amNick BoerI’ve used celtx before. i think they still have a free option. but i have a film degree, and currently in process of making a motion capture studio. would eventually like to create animated content with someone who wants to work on a project.Jun 14, 2018 12:00pmHisayoshi HirabayashiHow’s word on MacOS? Does it have a navigation pane? I find it absolutely crucial for working on anything with more than 50 pages or so. In fact, what word processors, to the exception of MS Word and Scrivener, have a navigation pane, or any other feature of a similar vein that allows us to navigate quickly between chapters/headings?Jun 14, 2018 12:56pmCurt DoolittleYes it has navigation pane. It’s slower. But for example, I use a great deal of indentation, and nothing else handles that writing style well. I know, I’ve tried everythign on the marketJun 14, 2018 1:00pmCurt DoolittleSee?Jun 14, 2018 1:01pmCurt DoolittleYou’ve read 90% of everything in it. Other than putting it together as on continuously evolving argument, I’m not sure what you’re gonna get out of it. But it’s dense as hell. lolJun 14, 2018 1:02pmBill JoslinI get more out of it everday. I imagine a dense printed version will be like free-basing your daily FB firehose.Jun 14, 2018 1:04pmHisayoshi HirabayashiI **think** you could always go through each of the indents that require adjustments on the text itself, and fix the ones that require fixing, one by one, although it’ll be a massive hassle.

    Still, I’m satisfied with what I see, seeing as you have an organization style similar to my own, with lots of categories and sub-categories. If you can use that version to deal with a work of that degree of complexity, it will certainly fit my needs.Jun 14, 2018 1:07pmBill Joslin”I’ve used celtx before. i think they still have a free option. but i have a film degree, and currently in process of making a motion capture studio. would eventually like to create animated content with someone who wants to work on a project.”

    Bryan Nova Brey see above (Nick)Jun 14, 2018 1:08pmBryan Nova BreyNick Boer I’d love to work on a project!Jun 14, 2018 1:29pmNick BoerHi Bryan What things are you interested in writing or adapting for screen? Whats your experience, and whats your general location?Jun 14, 2018 1:41pmNick BoerOh nice website. Just found it.Jun 14, 2018 1:43pmCurt Doolittle(Final Draft for script writing)

    (Scrivener for book writing – especially fiction)

    (Word for document writing )Jun 14, 2018 1:44pmBryan Nova BreyI really enjoy Final Draft. Quick tabs and single key brings up Character names, Scene location, etc.

    It’s super intuitive.Jun 14, 2018 1:45pmBill JoslinI use komodo for everything (it’s partly why I suck as a writer)Jun 14, 2018 1:45pmBryan Nova BreyNick Boer glad you see MythMatrix.com

    I’d like to do mini documentaries on some of the topics well discussed by Bill and Curt.

    I’d also love to make some positive future SciFi with the solutions we have discussed in Propertarianism and Sheepdog Nomocracy.Jun 14, 2018 1:48pmNick BoerVery cool. Let’s set up a time to talk.Jun 14, 2018 1:54pmPatrick NagleRocking the snowfall in full effect.Jun 14, 2018 6:59pmMaxim V FilimonovBoth are shit compared to real editors.Jun 15, 2018 5:59amCurt Doolittle(For coding ai use the Jetbrains IDEs. Mostly because I swore off MSFT)Jun 15, 2018 9:17amMaxim V FilimonovJetBrains are too huge and slow for me. It’s like driving a truck in the center of Amsterdam: I’d prefer a motorcycle.Jun 15, 2018 9:48amCurt DoolittleTrue. ;)Jun 15, 2018 10:02amJonathan WilburCurt Doolittle you should really try VS code. I know its Microsoft, but even as a big open source fanatic and a once scathing anti-Microsoft puritan, I have been really pleased with a lot of what they’ve put out in the past few years.Jun 15, 2018 10:22amJonathan WilburAlso, Atom is for bugmen. Just throwing that out there.Jun 15, 2018 10:23amMaxim V FilimonovJonathan Wilbur calm down, we get it.Jun 15, 2018 10:26amCurt DoolittleUm. I have authored a minor msft product. I was an employee. I did 50M in business a year with msft corporate and built the largest privately owned msft consulting firm in america, including spinning off what is now Avanade’s MS CRM business. As well as spinning off Microsoft Commerce Server to a third party. My avoidance of Msft is due to the thousands of bad memories I have from working with a company for whom morality consists of people getting away with whatever they can, and for whom internal dysfunction is a way of life. The fact that the OS is as much a zombie as a japanese commercial bank, is architected such that it cannot be fixed (Digital/VAX -> NT -> Win), and that the only thing keeping msft alive is Excelm the slow pace of browser progress, and continuing malinvestment in mobile, is entirely secondary. ;)Jun 15, 2018 10:33amDylan BalleyLooking forward to the book Curt! Keep writing!!Jun 16, 2018 1:13amMY ENTIRE LIFE THESE DAYS…

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-14 09:55:00 UTC

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    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_43196237263/35301258_10156425506512264_8805407650926821376_n_10156425506507264.jpg MY ENTIRE LIFE THESE DAYS…Connor WhittleVertical is the bestJun 14, 2018 9:56amGeorge Perceval OswaldAppreciation beyond wordsJun 14, 2018 9:57amCurt Doolittlelens distortion. Just laptop for notes and full size monitor for copy.Jun 14, 2018 11:18amEric Oberare you interested in writing scripts?Jun 14, 2018 11:26amCurt Doolittle( I use Scrivener for Scripts and documentation. It was not working well for me with this book. Too many crashes. So I went back to word. )Jun 14, 2018 11:31amJonathan WilburUsing VS Code like a true menschJun 14, 2018 11:32amCurt Doolittle????Jun 14, 2018 11:33amJonathan Wilbur@[741197263:2048:Curt Doolittle] I thought that was the dark theme business at the bottom.Jun 14, 2018 11:33amCurt DoolittleSublime. I use Sublime for large text and text manipulation.Jun 14, 2018 11:34amJonathan WilburNice. Nearly as good.Jun 14, 2018 11:34amBill JoslinDamn! I can’t read itJun 14, 2018 11:54amHisayoshi HirabayashiHow’s word on MacOS? Does it have a navigation pane? I find it absolutely crucial for working on anything with more than 50 pages or so. In fact, what word processors, to the exception of MS Word and Scrivener, have a navigation pane, or any other feature of a similar vein that allows us to navigate quickly between chapters/headings?Jun 14, 2018 12:56pmCurt DoolittleYes it has navigation pane. It’s slower. But for example, I use a great deal of indentation, and nothing else handles that writing style well. I know, I’ve tried everythign on the marketJun 14, 2018 1:00pmCurt DoolittleSee?Jun 14, 2018 1:01pmCurt DoolittleYou’ve read 90% of everything in it. Other than putting it together as on continuously evolving argument, I’m not sure what you’re gonna get out of it. But it’s dense as hell. lolJun 14, 2018 1:02pmBill JoslinI get more out of it everday. I imagine a dense printed version will be like free-basing your daily FB firehose.Jun 14, 2018 1:04pmHisayoshi HirabayashiI **think** you could always go through each of the indents that require adjustments on the text itself, and fix the ones that require fixing, one by one, although it’ll be a massive hassle.

    Still, I’m satisfied with what I see, seeing as you have an organization style similar to my own, with lots of categories and sub-categories. If you can use that version to deal with a work of that degree of complexity, it will certainly fit my needs.Jun 14, 2018 1:07pmBill Joslin”I’ve used celtx before. i think they still have a free option. but i have a film degree, and currently in process of making a motion capture studio. would eventually like to create animated content with someone who wants to work on a project.”

    @[572309326:2048:Bryan Nova Brey] see above (Nick)Jun 14, 2018 1:08pmBryan Nova Brey@[100004051705348:2048:Nick Boer] I’d love to work on a project!Jun 14, 2018 1:29pmEric OberOh nice website. Just found it.Jun 14, 2018 1:43pmCurt Doolittle(Final Draft for script writing)

    (Scrivener for book writing – especially fiction)

    (Word for document writing )Jun 14, 2018 1:44pmBryan Nova BreyI really enjoy Final Draft. Quick tabs and single key brings up Character names, Scene location, etc.

    It’s super intuitive.Jun 14, 2018 1:45pmBill JoslinI use komodo for everything (it’s partly why I suck as a writer)Jun 14, 2018 1:45pmBryan Nova Brey@[100004051705348:2048:Nick Boer] glad you see MythMatrix.com

    I’d like to do mini documentaries on some of the topics well discussed by Bill and Curt.

    I’d also love to make some positive future SciFi with the solutions we have discussed in Propertarianism and Sheepdog Nomocracy.Jun 14, 2018 1:48pmPatrick NagleRocking the snowfall in full effect.Jun 14, 2018 6:59pmMaxim V FilimonovBoth are shit compared to real editors.Jun 15, 2018 5:59amCurt Doolittle(For coding ai use the Jetbrains IDEs. Mostly because I swore off MSFT)Jun 15, 2018 9:17amMaxim V FilimonovJetBrains are too huge and slow for me. It’s like driving a truck in the center of Amsterdam: I’d prefer a motorcycle.Jun 15, 2018 9:48amCurt DoolittleTrue. ;)Jun 15, 2018 10:02amJonathan Wilbur@[741197263:2048:Curt Doolittle] you should really try VS code. I know its Microsoft, but even as a big open source fanatic and a once scathing anti-Microsoft puritan, I have been really pleased with a lot of what they’ve put out in the past few years.Jun 15, 2018 10:22amJonathan WilburAlso, Atom is for bugmen. Just throwing that out there.Jun 15, 2018 10:23amMaxim V Filimonov@[694156157:2048:Jonathan Wilbur] calm down, we get it.Jun 15, 2018 10:26amCurt DoolittleUm. I have authored a minor msft product. I was an employee. I did 50M in business a year with msft corporate and built the largest privately owned msft consulting firm in america, including spinning off what is now Avanade’s MS CRM business. As well as spinning off Microsoft Commerce Server to a third party. My avoidance of Msft is due to the thousands of bad memories I have from working with a company for whom morality consists of people getting away with whatever they can, and for whom internal dysfunction is a way of life. The fact that the OS is as much a zombie as a japanese commercial bank, is architected such that it cannot be fixed (Digital/VAX -> NT -> Win), and that the only thing keeping msft alive is Excelm the slow pace of browser progress, and continuing malinvestment in mobile, is entirely secondary. ;)Jun 15, 2018 10:33amDylan BalleyLooking forward to the book Curt! Keep writing!!Jun 16, 2018 1:13amMY ENTIRE LIFE THESE DAYS…

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-14 09:55:00 UTC

  • Neighbor. Late 80’s. Woman. Frail. Slow. Once Sophisticated. Clearly well read.

    Neighbor. Late 80’s. Woman. Frail. Slow. Once Sophisticated. Clearly well read. Always looks proper.

    I make a little time now and then to talk with her about what she’s reading, or just inquire about her day.

    Remarks to someone else “Curt talks to me.”

    Which I consider odd. Of course I talk to her.

    People from small towns do these things.

    Gentlemen do these things.

    It’s not charity, its investment in civil society.

    The question is, why it’s odd that people talk to her.

    It shouldn’t be.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-12 18:28:00 UTC

  • My father used to hire delivery drivers. I would ride in the van, pull the order

    My father used to hire delivery drivers. I would ride in the van, pull the order, take it the door, knock, and delivery with a smile. I started (really) in second grade, on holidays, and I pretty much understood how a business ran by the time I was eleven. At twelve I had the largest paper route in the city, and did baby sitting for ‘rambunctious boys’ that girls couldn’t manage. (boys are simple. so simple it’s painful.) At sixteen I had a job running games at the amusement park, and building the end-displays at the super market, and had a crew of four or five. This is before I got out of high school.

    From my perspective, after eleven or maybe twelve, about two hours of school a day is all that is necessary or valuable, with reading being the only exception. you can’t read enough. And the only way to read well (as to write well) is to just do it until you don’t think about it any longer.

    I know why we don’t teach logic/rhetoric, history, money/accounting, economics, and warfare.

    I don’t know why we don’t teach the electrical grid, the water, the sewer grid, the data grid, the highways, rivers, rails, airports, and ports and how they work together to move people and stuff.

    But they are a far better investment for most people than the sciences and maths. I mean, I think it’s important to understand the hierarchy of structures in the physical universe from the subatomic to the ecological to the sentient.

    But I would rather people people understand my table of grammars so so that they know what grammars exist and why, rather than know how to use them. Most of what we need to know about physics, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, can be taught absurdly young.

    Everything else is (a) reading, (b) learning application and (c) socializing.

    Why do I care: re-socializing the polity around WORK rather than IDEOLOGY turns out to be the most important product of education.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 14:06:00 UTC