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meh

shiiiiit

i need to just call in to all the radio hosts during my show

😄

😃

while covering the current events inbetween

idk how much trouble ill be in once they find out i was live too

none i say

he's fuckin on the radio sayin it lol

now he's sayin it in more places

goys! I just wrote 1000 words on my new novel. I may post some of it when I have more. I usually write about 1k words per day when I'm writing so this is exciting. It's an espionage thriller and I'm excited to write it. I had gotten so worn down writing YA bullshit I didn't care about for kids who don't care about reading.

awesome, you are actually doing it 😃

the topic sounds really interesting. for sure

i always do what I put my mind to. that's how I'm so successful at things other would look at and think too daunting. like a 10 year long PhD peppered in with poverty and living in a shitty appartment until you're 40. Ahhh focus and perseverence

The question isn't who is going to let me, it's whose going to stop me?

- Ayn Rand

looking forward to reading the first bit when it's ready!

did you ever get around to reading my sci-fi short stories?

first one, liked it!

cool

let me look over it again for more feedback 😃

the big one is The Storm Fishers. That's what everyone says is the best of the collection

lol there's so much stuff for me to read these days

i'm barely getting through Imagined Communities at the pace I'm reading it

oh ok. well focus on IC, my short stories don't really count towards our conversation anyway 😃

for fiction I'm currently reading Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land

oh i love that one!

Heinlein is the man when it comes to sci-fi, and Valentine Michael Smith is the best character he has ever created

yes, I love that it pushes the boundary of what is knowABLE in a perfectly believable and smooth way

I'm not that far in, but very curious about VMS' psyche and the martian society and views

what do you think about the Fair Witnesses in the book?

have you read the word grok yet?

grok = to share water, but also to commune in a deep way

Fair Witnesses = awesome invention! purely dispassionate observers, only relaying what *can* be known from a perspective

as far as I got it, grok = deep understanding, being immersed in the thing-ness of a concept

/ or person or thing

exactly, and throught them Heinlein makes us question what is being presented to us, and even more importantly makes us as WHO is giving us information

yea you seem to grok the concept of grok 😃

In undergrad I had to take a class on Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, and the teacher was a woman named Dr. Kelley and she would work a problem on the board, then turn around and make sure we grokked it - and yes she used the word. She was awesome

best stats class ever