#formats

[shyshyaaaaaa]

I am really just switching fandoms left and right, but i need help JnH gang😭

for those who know, im in the process of writing an au story of JnH (Jekyll and Hyde) based most entirely on the original novel, with different story routes and slight character alterations. but the one thing i cant seem to get right is the format in which i’d like to tell the story. should it be completely written? should it be some sort of comic, like other jekyll and hyde based stories? or should i take a different route entirely? please, even if you dont really know what my au is, just put ideas in the comments cuz im really struggling.

[skydarcyedwards]

Distorted Self Image

Sky Edwards

2024

Lomochrome Purple 120

Ensign Selfix 320

[reclezon]

Simple:

If the long form name of JPG images is Jpegs, then we should call PNG files Pongs.

[bookclub4m]

Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry

This episode we’re talking about the format of Lyric Poetry! We talk about reading poetry out loud, translation, French Canadian dialects, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier

Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr

Ledger: Poems by Jane Hirshfield

Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy

Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith 

Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith 

Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi 

No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay 

White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales by Rachel McCrum

The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón

The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott 

Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones

Other Media We Mentioned

The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin

19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop

When We Were Very Young by A. A Milne

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein  

The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky

All Def Poetry 

milk and honey by rupi kaur

One Piece by Eiichiro Oda

Trailer for Netflix show

“Poetry Is Not a Luxury” by Audre Lorde (pdf)

Links, Articles, and Things

Lyric poetry (Wikipedia)

The Writer's Block

The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry

Chiac (Wikipedia)

Plasco Building (Wikipedia)

30 Recent Poetry Collections by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

This booklist features books from BIPOC poets published in the past three years.

Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne

Feast by Ina Cariño

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo

Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi

I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry edited by Joy Harjo

Song of my Softening by Omotara James

Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead / Mamaht́wisiwin, Pakos̊yimow, Nikihci-́niskot́ṕn : Poems by Wanda John-Kehewin

Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna

Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi

Bianca by Eugenia Leigh

Finna by Nate Marshall

Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: The Condor and the Eagle Meet edited by Jennifer Murrin

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols

I’m Always So Serious by Karisma Price

Homie by Danez Smith

Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik

Promises of Gold/Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez with translation by David Ruano

That Was Now, This is Then by Vijay Seshadri

it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson

Dark Testament by Crystal Simone Smith

Unshuttered: Poems by Patricia Smith

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

Find Her. Keep Her. by Renaada Williams

Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie

From From by Monica Youn

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[the-pumpkween]

literally trying to learn a skill. I want to study the diagrams! I don't want a link to the instructional video. give me the analogue schematics!!

I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

[macbethheadband]

Right click -> save as -> ancient curse

[otiksimr]

I remember back in my compulsory education they taught us to use the keyboard like this but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single person type like this ever.

[foxiapp]

Abhishek Sharma hails Shubman Gill as 'one of best players India has produced in all three formats'

Former junior cricket and Punjab teammate Abhishek Sharma was all praise for his ‘friend’ Shubman Gill, who has recently been handed India captaincy in red-ball cricket after the retirements of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Gill was named India’s 37th Test captain while Rishabh Pant was assigned as his deputy, as the Indian team is set to tour England for a tough five-match Test series. Abhishek…

[dumb-gai-bitch]

Ok but I have the opposite where I geniunely hate fanfic.net’s layout bc I’ve become too spoiled with ao3’s. Like I used to use fanfic.net and now if I go on it from a fic rec I’m just like

Ah no it’s just a wall of text

Pls no

My brain needs the spaces or I’ll die

i flipping hate ao3's layout there's too many goddamn words

[chibanova]

So about those prices

[billconrad]

There’s Always a Wrong Way

    The top of your resume should only contain Resume of Name and title. “Resume of John Doe, Senior Salesperson” The word resume and your title should be in a smaller font than your name, all centered, taking up approximately 60% of the length. The phone number and email are right and justified on two separate lines below this. Then, a clear one-line career objective. “I wish to obtain a full-time job as a car salesman.” Next are three separate bulleted paragraphs with the following centered headings: skills, job history, education, and interests (non-related job items.) End your resume with “references available on request.” Never place your references on your resume. Only use New Times Roman size 10 font for your entire resume.

    OMG! You put down your career objective? It’s completely irrelevant. Obviously, the job you are applying for is the objective. Always left-justified your name on separate lines. Never center your words. Why are you separating job history and experience? A reviewer needs to see when you learned your skills. Other interests? Delete that junk! No references? You better list them if you want a job.

    I worked at a copy center for a total of 1.5 years, and during that time, I copied hundreds of resumes for every possible job in every conceivable format. We even had a professional resume person on site with whom I often spoke about the topic.

    Over the years, I noticed many patterns. Good resumes have the basics right out there. Bad resumes were cluttered and made it difficult for the reader. Some used small fonts, hard-to-read fonts, and mixed fonts. I saw misspelled words, random extra spaces, and uneven tabs. Plus, loads of irrelevant information. Overall, I found that people did not understand their audience.

    How do you write a patent? Well, you start off with… (Dear readers. Insert lots of boring patent stuff here.) Alright, message received. A patent is a complex technical description with loads of legal double talk. If you have some time, do a patent search for “dog finder,” “dog locator,” or “dog GPS.” Hundreds of patents will appear. After skimming through a few, you will see that patents do not follow a standard format.

    Wait a minute. The patent office provides examples, professional templates, and well-defined rules. Small yes and a big no. The available information and examples from the patent office are challenging to locate, incomplete, of poor quality, out of date with their rules, contradictorily, and written in incomprehensible legal speak. This is because the patent office is a small, underfunded, confusing, uncoordinated government department that is very far behind the times. In short, they are not your friend; they are an overworked government agency full of bureaucracy. While the patents you locate in your search might appear like the provided templates, the wording, diagrams, and internal workings are all radically different.

    Years ago, I wanted to start a business, and people told me I needed a business plan to attract investors. It seemed logical, so I bought three books and began reading. Wow, the books all suggested radically different approaches. One flaunted incomprehensible spreadsheets with loose supporting paragraphs and included a non-working computer program to develop the spreadsheets. The second book contained a lofty mess that made absolutely no sense. The third contained five “award-winning” business plans with tips on making your own. After reading the plans, I noticed they differed vastly in format, organization, style, and approach. Plus, there were extra sections that made no sense and others that were impossible to understand. In short, the three books failed to define the basic topic.

    To help, my mother hooked me up with a family friend who wrote business plans for a living. He showed me four plans that raised cash for successful startup companies. Then, he hit me up for $1,500 to continue speaking with me. When I told my mother what happened, she became outraged because our family did their family many favors over the years.

    After getting yelled at, he printed me out a copy of his four plans. (Side note: He expected $1,500 each for this gesture, which upset my mother even more.) When I looked over his plans, they sort of made sense, but they were detail-heavy and challenging to follow. Plus, I did not feel comfortable with this format. Totally unrelated side story: Three years later, he paid a man to murder his wife. Yikes!

    My father then asked a business friend to help me out. Damon took a lot of time to explain all aspects of a business plan, which was a big personal favor on his part. (Side story. He had screwed my parents on a business deal, and this was an attempted apology.) I worked hard for a year and developed a great business plan together.

    My plan stood out as having a clear objective, a slick appearance, easy-to-follow finances, and excellent supporting documentation. As a result, I got many positive comments from potential investors. They were all uninterested; one even asked me to write plans for his startups. Sadly, nobody was willing to invest in my company. It was the mid-90s before the .com boom. Still, I learned a lot and like to think I now have an unofficial MBA.

    Resumes, patents, and business plans are supposed to follow “a standard format.” Yet, they deviate wildly. What is the goal of all those documents? Get the reader, reviewer, jury, patent attorney, company, investor, loan officer, or random interested person the proper information allowing them to make an informed decision.

    Here is the fundamental question intended to be answered by a resume: Do you have the skills to do this job? If a resume reviewer must hunt for the answer, they will go to the next candidate. In my days at the copy center, I copied a resume with jellybean stickers. Really? One had the threat, “If you do not hire me, you are an idiot.” What?

    Since I wrote my business plan, I have seen many others. They were all a mess. One was far too optimistic, with a 3000% return! One had flowery language, “I want to make a far-out restaurant.” Business plans are supposed to be serious.

    One business plan (written by a friend) did not explain the amount of money requested or how the company would spend it. (Side note. When I questioned him, he answered, “Explaining my plan is unimportant. It’s boilerplate. You ask for the amount in person.”) What the heck? The definition of a business plan = How I PLAN to spend YOUR money. Throw them a bone! Side note. He had difficulty getting funding for some reason and was only successful when somebody helped him. Their first task? Create a business plan. It made me laugh when I found this out.

    I have seen more than one patent with misspelled words and one with a misspelled title. Really? Could they not spell-check the title? I have even seen patents with offensive (four-letter) words. And the crazy patent drawings? Wow. Crazy side note. There are patents for adult pleasure devices. Those drawings are quite “realistic.”

    The point of this article is that we all perceive that there is a standard format, and our’s is the best. Yet, we know there is some leeway in formatting. What everybody can agree on is that there are wrong formats. There is an old aircraft saying, “If it looks right, it will fly right.”

    My advice in life is to pick a path and follow it, but learn from mistakes and try to improve. In closing. What if there was an accepted standard format for these common documents? I suppose life would be easier, but everybody would be a professional.

    You’re the best -Bill

    May 03, 2025

    Hey, book lovers, I published four. Please check them out:

    Interviewing Immortality. A dramatic first-person psychological thriller that weaves a tale of intrigue, suspense, and self-confrontation.

    Pushed to the Edge of Survival. A drama, romance, and science fiction story about two unlikely people surviving a shipwreck and living with the consequences.

    Cable Ties. A slow-burn political thriller that reflects the realities of modern intelligence, law enforcement, department cooperation, and international politics.

    Saving Immortality. Continuing in the first-person psychological thriller genre, James Kimble searches for his former captor to answer his life’s questions.

    These books are available in softcover on Amazon and in eBook format everywhere.

[set-wingedwarrior]

I haven't watched the episode, didn't even know there were new episodes releasing these days, then a celebratory clip appears on my feed and this was literally my reaction

[computer-science-resource-page]

Services Companies - Please review all the physical media in all formats in the Library of Congress to ensure complete understanding of local conditions and needs

[ameliakeli]

Migrate All Types of Box Files to SharePoint & Retain Formats

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