I'm more a tech-writer than a word master. I will never write "the great American novel." So what? I'm more of a doer than a story teller. That's what brings me here. I should have listened to my writing teachers when I was busy otherwise goofing off. This seems to be a great place to hang around and learn more from afflicted individuals that suffer from their passion. Don't get me wrong, I like passionate people that are driven to art. That being said I will hang back a watch for a while.
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Hi Gizmotron,
I'm a former tech writer. In recovery is how I think of it.
You're right that this is a great place to observe bona fide writers in their natural habitat. (A remark about whether there's any reproduction in captivity seems inevitable, yet unwise at the same time.
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I'm a former tech writer. In recovery is how I think of it.
You're right that this is a great place to observe bona fide writers in their natural habitat. (A remark about whether there's any reproduction in captivity seems inevitable, yet unwise at the same time.
) -pkpk
paprikapink said:You're right that this is a great place to observe bona fide writers in their natural habitat. (A remark about whether there's any reproduction in captivity seems inevitable, yet unwise at the same time.
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Hah! That's a funny way of putting it. Then there is always the odd chance that two will find their own sole-mate in here, ...on the internet. Yikes.
A little more about myself:
I growed[sp] up near you in Sacramento, Fair Oaks, that is. I'm a real Okie Okie guy, cow town and all that stuff. My stomping grounds as a young adult involved becoming an extreme-skier near you above Placerville and a windsurfer down in the delta near you. I add to that much fun the 25 years in the construction industry becoming a general contractor and building custom homes and recording studios around the U.S. I then branched away into software development. During that later period I needed to get better at explaining what I was creating in software develpment. I studied at a tech-writing certification school that was part of a business school in Canada.
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Hi, Giz! Welcome. The living room is straight ahead, the kitchen is down the hall, the bathroom is around the back, and the straight jackets are under the stairs. (Trust me, after a few weeks, you may feel the need to wear one. Or to put one on someone else.) Hope to see you around the boards.
Hi Gizmotron! Welcome to AW, I think you'll have a good time watching us crazies. Enjoy the show.
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Thank you all for welcoming me to this forum. I am very happy to be here and hope to contribute any help that might come from what I can share that's useful.
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Mark Brownell
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That's an interesting website, Mark. "Meaningful" is a good thing for a mark-up language to aspire to.
Fair Oaks...my kids and I love it there -- all those free-roaming chickens! Were they there when you were growing up?
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Fair Oaks...my kids and I love it there -- all those free-roaming chickens! Were they there when you were growing up?
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50 of them were... I ate em! ...or that is my family and I ate them. I was a boy scout and in 4-H at the same time. Must have been my early renaissance period getting started.
Warning! grotesk to follow:
It fell to my older brother and I to wring the necks of all those frier chickens. We had them corralled in a very small space so we could grab them fast. So we started grabbing chickens by the neck and giving them a few quick twists and and a launch. I think it was the only way to handle this task at such a young age. Anyway we saw that a headless chicken flopped for about thirty seconds before just playing dead. So the goal moved to seeing how many chicken bodies we could get flopping at once. That's when my sister came around the corner of the barn to see what was going on. She was completely grossed out by that scene. How about all you all?
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I can't say I'm totally grossed out. I'm maintaining an intellectual detatchment by wondering a) how many chickens can you get flopping at one time? and b) did you eat all of them? Of the ones you killed, I mean. I know you didn't eat all the chickens in Fair Oaks. Plenty of the survivors' antecedents (is that the other way of "ancestors?") are strutting around town today.
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Hi Gismo. Triceratops throws his hands up in welcome and his pants fall down.
Now that is gross...
Tri
Now that is gross...
Tri
paprikapink said:
Ah so, now it sounds like the tech-writer in you coming out a little. The answer to (A) is about twenty flopping chickens by two crazed boys.
We had five hundred rabbits, fifty chickens, three steers, and thirty sheep. Over the period of about ten years we, my family, ate all of them. I remember saying things like "do we have to eat barbecued t-bone steak again?" By the way, barbecued rabbit tastes like chicken only better. This discussion of Fair Oaks makes that place out to be like Rio Linda. Yes that's the same "Rio Linda" that Rush Limbagh makes fun of. The fact is that Fair Oaks is the coolest place around the Sacramento area to grow up in. The American River ran a half mile from my house and was the place of my Tom Sawyer-esque boyhood. I loved that place. To bad you can't go home as they say. We had the indian woods and the forty mile stretch of the river parkway system to play in. All this growing up took place before the parkway and bike-trail were developed.
Fair Oaks' best crop now is custom homes and grid-locked traffic.
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Thanks for the welcome, I think? Is this a common habit of you dropping your pants around here? Perhaps it is a common thing in your country. I need to get out more often...
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