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jeffc, 1 day ago

@VisualInspiration
It was just a misunderstanding--"grail," for us, is a kind of breakfast roll--but suddenly we're neck-deep in knights with long lines at breakfast.

Sir Galahad is learning to bake breakfast rolls, which is charming, and Sir Gawain is providing scholarly insights into angels dancing on pinheads. However, several haven't returned from their side-quest to Liberate the Sun, and the rest are quite rowdy.

Might you perchance consider recalling your knights?
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jeffc, 2 days ago

@annaleen Somewhere between Major Major Major Major and Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen.

jeffc, 2 days ago

@VisualInspiration

"Good news! Your part's on eBay."

#SixWordStories #writingprompt

jeffc, 1 day ago

@VisualInspiration
Like someone who fixed antique clocks, the first challenge of being a bot doc is the diagnosis. The second, much bigger one is finding parts for a bot that's outlived its manufacturer.

BTW, the big one's the doc. You can tell 'cause it can afford body panels.

jeffc, 3 days ago

@SteveThompson
Contact your members of Congress.

http://www.house.gov/

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

jeffc, 4 days ago

@jonny Demographics.

jeffc, 4 days ago

@europesays
Project Drawdown is good stuff.

jeffc, 6 days ago

@VisualInspiration
Style, that's the thing. Do it with panache.

Browns makes the best boots, but they're ugly. If one wanted to change the situation, one would need to blend with the Kowloon ship traffic, like so. Then slip into their factory control, like so. One would--oops! avoid those cameras, perhaps by (carefully) walking across the beam they hang from. Then update the design... and everyone gets nicer boots. With (ding!) a special delivery for oneself.

Aways with panache.
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jeffc, 6 days ago

@VisualInspiration

"There's not enough room in the bunker for us and his new family. He knows that."

"But it's gotten dangerous out there! When we were his age, chain twisters and hurricane trains didn't even exist. What if they take the bunker and we go on the road?"

"I suggested that. He wouldn't hear of it. He said we wouldn't stand a chance out there. She grew up as a New Nomad. She knows how to dodge the weather. It scares me, too, but they'll be ok."

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jeffc, 6 days ago

@VisualInspiration
Here's hoping Mother Nature doesn't give us a preview this year!

jeffc, 7 days ago

@VisualInspiration

"No, I'm not going to tell a campfire story. I'm an axe. I chop things. That's what I do. That's all I do, and I'm very good at it. I might be a magic axe, but that just makes me better at chopping. You want a story? Ask your smart phone. You can get them to do anything for a few coppers."

"I heard that."

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jeffc, 9 days ago

@VisualInspiration
When Toothbrush was old enough, Modem Song took him to see the spirit casks.

"The Old Tribe made spirits work for them. There, in the white tower. Then they put them in these casks. The spirits are still angry--feel the warmth? They give anyone who gets too close strange diseases. This symbol is an Old Tribe warning. There's good hunting here in the winter, but don't go near the casks."

"How long will they stay angry?"

"Thousands of years? Who can say."
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jeffc, 12 days ago

@VisualInspiration

Basically, I'm in solitary for the duration. (Don't never piss off no warden.) I'd be crazy if I hadn't found the gate.

It's in the cell, but you can only see it from certain angles. Go wherever you want; time stops while you're gone. Stay too long, it'll yoink you back.

I got no money 'cept what I can make on day job, so I'm "on a budget," but it keeps me sane while I'm doing time. Even if the clock stops while I'm gone.

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jeffc, 14 days ago

@biped808 Sorry for the grayness! We have May gray and June gloom, but they're kind of like our climate control: they (and the ocean the leads to them) keep the temperature moderate instead of desert-like extremes.

jeffc, 13 days ago

@biped808
I didn't take it that way--sorry if I sounded defensive! Enjoy your trip!

jeffc, 14 days ago

@VisualInspiration

Sometimes the moon's so big and close you feel like you could touch it, you know?

Thing is, you can.

I tried once. First I touched it. Then I tried stepping over, but it was too hot and cold all at the same time.

So I wrapped myself up in a bunch of space blankets, the shiny kind, and got some good boots, and tried again.

It worked.

I could walk around up there.

So if you look at the moon and see something shiny, it's me. Wave, and I'll wave back.
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jeffc, 14 days ago

@VisualInspiration
Thanks!

jeffc, 14 days ago

@VisualInspiration
I'm an Earth-head. Always have been. So 40 years ago I figured I'd try to trade with them, maybe score a Walkman. I painted the saucer like one of their shuttles and snuck into their spaceport.

As soon as I landed, they came boiling out, and they looked mad. I jumped back in and took off. Then I realized I'd dropped my phone.

Today I see a native on a phone that looks like mine. I guess they reverse-engineered it. I sure hope they don't figure out the AI part.
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jeffc, 14 days ago

@ixtlidekami @VisualInspiration Turn it into an acronym, then anyone who wants to rename it also has to come up with an acronym: defensive linguistics for the win!