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Jim Carpenter
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Grandfather, writer, reader, skeptic
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"Like" this post just because.
December 1, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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Something about this person’s username makes me think that their intentions are not pure.
November 29, 2024 at 6:42 PM
My list of rules to guarantee successful writing.

1. Stop kidding yourself that you’ll follow your own rules. You’ll be much happier.

That’s it. That’s the list.
November 28, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Rewatched Buckaroo Bonzai. Just gets better and better.
November 27, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Trump Tells Republicans to ‘Kill’ Reporter Shield Bill Passed Unanimously by House (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...
Trump Tells Republicans to ‘Kill’ Bipartisan Press Freedom Bill
The bill, known as the PRESS Act, would codify protections against federal investigators seizing reporters’ records. It is now less likely the legislation will clear the Senate before the current sess...
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Why am I always last to notice things?

From Finnegans Wake: It was buck bonzer, beleeme.

And then, there’s this.
November 24, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Is it a bad sign if the synopsis is easy to write?
November 23, 2024 at 5:02 AM
November 21, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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Leak the report. Pass it on.
November 21, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Work from my 2008 poetry machine included here.

mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981...
Output
An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created lon...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 19, 2024 at 1:18 PM
My latest escape reading.
November 18, 2024 at 6:54 PM