{"id":2441,"date":"2002-08-23T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-23T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2020-07-25T20:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T00:48:02","slug":"writing-and-geekdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2441","title":{"rendered":"Writing and Geekdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I now understand the motivation behind rewriting. I feel a fevered anticipation. I promised a completed Chapter 1 by the end of next week, and he’ll get it, even with the re-write. I’ll have to have him re-read the intro as well.<\/lj><\/p>\n

I got a Soundwave poster and rented an anime DVD yesterday. I found myself visually drinking in my surroundings, and those in them.<\/p>\n

I crave a laptop with an internal zip drive. It would be perfect if it was used and cheap. Anybody? PC or Mac, no biggie to me. I could settle for USB support, but my zip drive isn’t USB powered. It’s got its own plug. Maybe I should just save up for a cheap used laptop with USB support and a USB-powered zip drive.<\/p>\n

In other geek news, I ran across a 3.5″ floppy disk yesterday that was labeled simply “Book”. So I popped it in, and noticed the disk was going bad. I recovered what files I could, and I have eight text files. One entitled “Prelude”, and the rest are labeled 1 through 7.<\/p>\n

It’s an old, old, old attempt at writing out an AD&D adventure in the worlds my best friend and I had created. Ok, so here’s my first attempt at a poll:<\/p>\n

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I now understand the motivation behind rewriting. I feel a fevered anticipation. I promised a completed Chapter 1 by the end of next week, and he’ll get it, even with the re-write. I’ll have to have him re-read the intro … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[32,34,15],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gadgets-and-nerdery","tag-livejournal","tag-writery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-Dn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}