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| I hate to do this but I just got a boiler plate email from {suser:reggiemiller}. The handle shows up as - ; just that single character. This port it's from has no bioblock and a grey case. They just said "Hey Author, I really liked your story." Then they offered to do art work for any upcoming projects. Shared an Instagram, Discord and gmail contact information. Then they tell me that they shared their contact info.  I've never seen such blatant, generic, content in a letter that was written by an actual human that wasn't a lawyer or some sort of institution. I typed Reggie Miller into a search engine. It came back with an NBA basketball player turned commentator, a politician, no budding artists or anything. Now I don't mean to be rude or stereotype but an athlete or politician is the last person I would expect to ask to create an artwork. I suspect this person is intentionally using a famous person's name to do something sketchy. "-", you've got to be better. Sorry, but unless I've had several interactions with a member, I'm not accepting any real life business transactions or contact. Not personal, just playing it safe. |
Hey people, according to the WDC clock, January 30th isn't over yet! Come answer my strange question over at
Here's the link to my entry. "QOTD: Jan 30th"  |
| A frightening potato yawns, lays back down and begins talking. Greetings, I've been up a little less than an hour and I'm already causing trouble in not one but three separate contests/forums with this "Thirdite Omen Prophecy" . Morning all! Have a write-tastic day! |
| It's time for another round of gross facts from the biomedical world. Today's word is gleek. gleek:(verb) when a person shoots saliva out of their mouth.(first time I heard it used was 2003. So despite it not being in my iPhone's dictionary and my inability to add it, I still recognize it as a word!) Did you know that it's impossible to gleek on command? This is because the muscles that eject saliva from the salivary glands are of a type called smooth muscle. This type of muscle is not under controll of your conscious mind. It responds to biochemical signals from your endocrine system. Therefore people are more likely to gleek whilst eating or thinking about food. Despite not being able to do so on command, you can prevent gleeking. The lips are controlled by a series of skeletal muscles. That means that your mind controls those. If they're closed while you're eating or thinking of food, the likelihood of gleeking is reduced. Remember; only you can prevent gleeking! |
Not necessarily gleeking, but when I was around 11 or so I had a small gap between my gum line and where my two front teeth met. I’d gather saliva against the roof of my mouth, hold my tongue along the bottom of my upper teeth, purse my lips and blow sharply through the gap. A solid stream of saliva would eject from my mouth. I liked to pretend I was a dilophosaurus spitting poison or something. Dunno. I was a weird kid  Actually . . . On second thought, I should totally bring that back. Maybe it’ll make make people keep their distance  |
| I hate microsoft word! I've had to change my login credentials for them ten times just to try to change a password I'm. Never. Going. To. Remember! Even if I write it down thats not going to stay in my brain. And I'll lose the paper. Its been a long day and all I wanted to do was write some poems to vent about how nuts my real life makes me! And I really was planning on compiling a compilation of poems to submit to somewhere just so I could get rejected by publishers. Nowadays everything being online is a blessing and a curse! |
| I am also challenged by remembering my passwords. Some time ago, I learned somewhere to use PERSONAL memorable phrases instead of a "password". A Bible verse, A quote from a family member or friend. A quote from a funny old movie or commercial. I've also used the names of my past nemesis'. :) One of my high school girlfriend's best friend hated me and caused a lot of problems. I've previously used her name and an associated date plus a unique character as a password. I hope this helps. |
| As if the neighborhood wasn't scared of me already. I had to do something completely weird. I was trying to remember the genealogist who is the host of "Who Do You Think You Are?" and "Finding Your Roots." I couldn't think of it at first. I was at the front door when I yelled. "Henry Gates Jr.; I remember!" It was so loud it echoed off the walls of nearby houses. |
Beacon's Anchor  - I've also gone out and done "tai-chi" in my backyard, talked to "the deceased" and we also put up six feet tall poles with spiky lightning rods at the end. They're mounted on our roof. Thats not even mentioning the "radio tower" we've installed in the back and front yards. I'm pretty sure that people either think we're crazy, practice the Dark Arts or are mad scientists. They're sort of right on two of the three. Lol. |
🐕GeminiGem🎁  - after responding to Beacon's Anchor , I just realized I'm pretty weird already. If I have to up my game in twenty years, we're all in trouble. |
Ms. TerrifyingTuber  - I find it pretty funny plus I'm sure it keeps your neighbors curiousity going as well. My fiancé had a friend that used to live down the street from him and he had radio antennas on his house and he would cuss on air, plus the neigh hood would pissed off because they couldn't watch TV and my fiancé's dad couldn't listen to the radio without hearing the guy cuss every 5 minutes. I understand what you are saying. |
I didn't use AI to write this
Despite the note at the end...is a human pretending to be an AI weird? All the people in the story had been eaten. I had to come up with a reason it was being narrated. |
I posted something in
A question that hopefully will spark a few imaginations."Thursday January 23rd" |
| I had an odd juxtaposition of two authors looking at your GIF: JRR Tolkien and Raymond Feist. In one of Feist’s novels, he has two teams of apprentices playing something resembling European-style football (giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “fantasy football.” Made me wonder if young hobbits play such sports, and if their elders were allowed to smoke their pipes at their matches. Oh, and I’ve answered your QOTD, but I should have added being a train engineer. I’ve always wanted to drive a steam locomotive. |
| That moment when you realize you just put your comment on the wrong post so it's totally an awkward non-sequiter!(lol the red squiggles think I made up a word. Just substitute irrelevant for that last word.) |
| S 🤦 - whats even better is my spell check had no idea that I was trying to spell non sequitur. Lol. For the record, it's the second u the whole word that was screwing me up. |
| Looked up the definition of cyborg on Dictionary.com. "An organism with biological and machine components that regulate its functions." By that definition I already know people who are cyborgs. Pacemaker patients, people with state of the art prosthetic limbs and various other medical devices all fit that description. Soo...how can we say cyborgs don't exist? They walk among us! Also we live in a world where people say "I poop everyday." As an endorsement for a product. The future, albeit weird and kind of face palmy, is now! |
| So my front yard is taking an interesting turn. I'm used to seeing evidence of rabbits or skunks waddling about the yard. What I'm not used to is finding random clumps of fur. I mean the size of a freakin' golf bar. I was outside tonight and found a random clump of rabbit fur sans hide and bones. I thought it was fake until I realized I was looking at a hunk of agouti—variegated earth tone hairs— still attached to a bit of white undercoat. That and it was slightly matted. I have 3 hypotheses. 1) the wild rabbits have been fighting in our yard and pulled the looser's fur out. 2) there's a predator either quadrupedal or avian that loves to eat in our yard. 3) either a purposeful or accidental "gift" from the crows that like to dig through our garbage for leftovers.(Yes I know, bad me, but it feels mean to stop them.) Considering the snow's all melted and I couldn't find any tracks or blood, this is mostly a bizarre mystery. It boggles the brain how else the clump of fur might've got there. It's not even windy outside. |
| Scifiwizard Retired - I don't mind the rabbits and skunks so much. We've made our peace. It's the thought of having something unknown that kept me up last night. I was stupid tired when I made it to bed and I convinced myself there were coyote packs or Rocket Terror Birds frequenting the yard. My nephew thinks coyotes would open doors and crash through windows. This thought put my amygdala in overdrive. I ended up having to yell at myself to quit being stupid. Even if there are canids around, they don't do stuff like the Raptors in Jurassic Park. |
| Ms. TerrifyingTuber - Coyotes tend to shy away from people unless they are rabid. Yes, they are opportunists but no... they do not crash through windows or open doors. Your nephew has seen too many movies. You more likely heard two raccoons having a territorial dispute. They can be noisy little critters. |
| Scifiwizard Retired - I thought that was the case but my nephew wouldn't hear word one about that. There was a coyote spotted in his parent's yard. Alex was in his grandpa's car with me and told me matter of factly "I'm not going out there without a weapon." It would've been funny if I hadn't been so tired. The only thing that finally got him out there was me being all action hero and saying "I am a weapon!" Then I explained that I knew self defense so there wasn't a chance of anything bad getting us. Sorry, I shouldn't laugh at my nephew. It's just he's so smart but his fear was so infectious that it even got to me in the late hours of night. |
| I just wrote my first Epic. "Aegis the Wanderer " Then I wrote a review. I wasn't mean on purpose but I feel a little guilty for not praising the person I reviewed more.(but thats a me and that person issue not an anyone or anything else issue just needed to say something so my stomach will quit churning. |
Jeremy  - thank you, I just felt like I was opening a can of worms with my opinion. As an aside I understand the feeling of being at Bible camp. It's kind of uncomfortable. Thats coming from someone who spent a long time in a very conservative part of the South Western US. |
| So, another Thursday, another better late than never question. Whether I'm meant to or not. Pop on over to
Or if you want to see my question directly, "Unofficial January 16th" click that blue text! |
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