brianstorms

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by brianstorms 7mo ago
I read every book written by Robert Caro—now there was an author who loved em-dashes! I enjoyed his use of them so much in his writing that I started using them in my own book that came out in 2017. I freely admit—without hesitation—that my
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by brianstorms 1y ago
this.
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by brianstorms 1y ago
Yes I fucking am. Thank you for your concern.
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by brianstorms 1y ago
Who fucking said my "book flopped financially" -- please, point that out. Oh, wait, you can't, because you just made that up. Fucking hell. This place sucks.
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by brianstorms 1y ago
LOL, whatever.
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by brianstorms 1y ago
What an asshole.
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by brianstorms 1y ago
Fuck that site. Offers people links to free PDF downloads of my book that I worked on for 32 years and finally got published by Pantheon Books in 2017. I didn't work all that fucking time for criminals like these to just break copyrig
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by brianstorms 1y ago
I love, no luuuurrve, this article. Just fantastic research and fantastically useful for a music project I'm workin' on.
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by brianstorms 1y ago
Why is this flagged!?
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by brianstorms 2y ago
20 years ago? Nah, the golden era of online community was 40-50 years ago, on the PLATO system.
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by brianstorms 2y ago
Bitzer was on Donahue twice. This is the second show. A couple years earlier he was on as well.
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by brianstorms 2y ago
Well Wizardry was written by two PLATO gamers at Cornell, a university that had a PLATO terminal or two connected to the U of I system. Very much inspired by PLATO games like Oubliette and Avatar.
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by brianstorms 2y ago
Ah, they broke the mold when they made Don Bitzer. Nobody can ever fill those shoes.
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by brianstorms 2y ago
Sadly this article is, per the tradition over at Ars Technica, quite misleading. Bottom line: if you want to understand the actual history of the online world, don't read Ars Technica. They don't get it, they've never gotten
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by brianstorms 2y ago
Fast Company's been on a much longer journey than that, and they still haven't found theirs, so maybe...
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by brianstorms 3y ago
Used to run ads in 1988-90 in ComputorEdge for my first startup (Coconut Computing; we ran the COCONET online service in San Diego then). Didn't they change their name to ByteBuyer? We used to call them ByteBuyor to pay homage to the o
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by brianstorms 3y ago
Nah the original assessment was too many San Diego tech workers would rather go surfing or play networked first-person shooter games than get something momentous done. There was always something more important to do than do the work and bui
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by brianstorms 3y ago
After getting to know the Boulder-area TechStars people, I tried to get a TechStars "chapter" going in San Diego back in 2010 and like so many things about the startup world in San Diego, it just wasn't going to happen. The S
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by brianstorms 3y ago
Yes, so true! The inconsistencies and non-standardization continues in Tesla's mobile app. There are many other examples there too.
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by brianstorms 3y ago
Any Tesla owner can relate to this, given the wide variety (read: no consistency, no standards) of toggle buttons the car's UI utilizes. For one, the HVAC. One button, showing temperature, which upon touched the system will react diffe
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by brianstorms 3y ago
It's a shame when a documentary series like this is made by someone with . . . issues.
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by brianstorms 3y ago
I still have the DVDs in shrink-wrap. Have never watched. The documentary has a glaring omission, not covering COCONET from Coconut Computing.
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by brianstorms 3y ago
"garbage in, garbage out" is alive and well
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by brianstorms 3y ago
Recently was at Baltimore Washington Airport and rented a Tesla Model Y from Hertz. The ordeals began long before we arrived at BWI. I forget the reason now, but I didn't trust Hertz with the reservation for the Y. Even though the site
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by brianstorms 3y ago
Well I started traveling and doing interviews in 1985. That took years. Decades. (I had to type 7 million words of transcripts, for one thing.) In 1987 I sent in a pitch to Knopf/Doubleday's managing editor, and she wrote back and
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by brianstorms 3y ago
Is Ethan Diamond still there?
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by brianstorms 3y ago
I also worry about enshittification of Bandcamp. And I'm an artist with music on the site. I was very nervous about the Epic deal when it happened (figured it was a way to get the founders and the A-round VCs some money in a cash-out a
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by brianstorms 3y ago
Do you think some other seller falsely "reported" me, claiming my copies my be counterfeit, for surely there was no way I could offer them so cheaply to beat out the next cheapest seller by, what, 50 cents?
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by brianstorms 3y ago
I signed up as a Seller on Amazon a while back, with one primary goal: sell extra copies of my book, published by Pantheon Books in 2017. The publisher offered me boxes of them at dirt-cheap prices and I took them up on their offer. So I st
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by brianstorms 3y ago
I figure the day's coming when cops will be able to remotely activate the inside camera and microphone in a Tesla, or remotely disable the car and/or have it pull over, etc. Perhaps first in China, but probably everywhere eventual

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