#i want to write for him so badly but i SUCK at his dialect

[prnanxiety]

2/11/24

So, that patient I talked about yesterday. The one who I thought sounded like an improper admission, who didn't stand to benefit from being here? Turns out I was right, but for the wrong reasons. Guy was BPD as hell, staff were either angels on earth or the worst people in the world to him. And I had the misfortune of being his favorite person, which meant I had all the pressure on me, constantly, to do what he wanted me to do, because I'm a good, considerate, compassionate nurse who fights for his patients. I mean, I want very badly to be that and all, but bringing that to work just gets me mauled by cluster B.

And he was absolutely lying about not being an alcoholic. I finally had the opportunity to read through his chart and realized too much of his story just couldn't be true. I fully believe that he had bad parents and childhood PTSD, sure. But I also fully believe he has a drinking problem.

Which always sucks, because its the stuff like that that makes me look at patients in his position and try to do things for them. But its a population that doesn't know how to engage with the help in a healthy or productive way. Sometimes I feel like we need to have a full time Dialectical Behavioral Therapist on the unit.

After the guy discharged, I ended up getting talked to by the more senior nurses for a while. "You have to be willing to be the bad guy for these patients." All this about how they wind up like this because their parents never let them hit rock bottom and truly face the consequences of their actions, and how that's what they need, in order to come here and get better; the willingness to acknowledge that they have a problem. "You have a good heart, this is a challenge for you." etc.

Mostly I just have to, I don't know. Learn how to navigate the uncertainty that comes with "if I enforce a boundary without making sure they understand why and to what benefit, am I going to be therapeutic and maintain a healthy milieu?" That's just one of my many fears about it. I don't know, I'll have to sit and really write it all out for a future diary entry; dinner's done.

One other thing real quick though. New admission on my unit has homicidal ideation. He's pretty openly "Yup, I'm going to kill Randall Mackerson [not his name], so, let me discharge so I can go take care of that." I don't know what to make of it. Like, why is he being so open about this? Most of the time if patients want to bullshit the system for an involuntary commitment they make a bunch of suicidal comments to avoid being discharged. This guy? Homicidal intent, to a specific guy, he continues to name, calmly. Does he understand we're also contacting the police about this? What the hell is the game, here, guy?

[gingerbreadmonsters]

omg spain how lovely!!!! I bet it's amazing over there, I hope youre traveling safe <3 what kind of things did you do there, or was it more of a just enjoy the sun kind of holiday? and rest the hell up when you get back! or I'm gonna come over there and put you on bedrest myself 😠 and that'll be nice! it's funny bc I'm actually planning to meet an old friend from sixth form this week too 😂 we haven't seen each other in two years and we've been meaning to meet up for ages

I'm not up to much tho, I'm just at home for the holidays (I'm caring for my mum since she's been sick) but I'll be going back to uni after easter break for exams. after exams, I don't really have any plans other than earning some money and an anime convention in july.

I am convinced we are living the same life!!! you must be my doppelganger or smth wth. I also have zero romance/dating experience, we can be single pringles together ❤ I feel the exact same way about love tbh, I feel that I sometimes have my expectations way too high bc of it, and that's why I stick to fictional characters 😌 they never disappoint. It's amazing how you can put it into such beautiful words the way you do. I often try a poetic prose but it's very inconsistent when I do, so I just stick to the basics in my fics so I don't sound dumb 😂

I just call it sun lotion haha

I finally checked out the asmr! I don't know how I feel about it ngl, it definitely needs time to grow on me. there's definitely a lot of information to take in but I'm pretty sure I checked out the vampire one and there was another, I think it was the most recent video of paperwork? yeah, idk, there's something about the accent that sounds cool but also makes me not like it. like you, I know jack all about the regional accents but I do prefer different american accents over his. it's not that I don't like it, but it needs some getting used to. or maybe it's just asmr in general, it kinda feels uncomfortable with headphones, so maybe I'll try playing it in the background on my laptop rather than hearing it right in my ears. there is something appealing about having a nice voice playing in the background, I often have obey me voice lines or the podcast/boys in the house playing as background noise to cough cough kill the loneliness lmao

at this point tho I'm still trying to get my head around the whole universe he has going on, it's really impressive. I think I'll be hooked when I understand it more. also it is so friggin cute that he has specific nicknames for listeners for each character!!!!! I don't even know him much but that makes me wanna sob

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hey hey lovely!! aah spain was v nice - spent some time exploring madrid and valencia, plus a day on the beach which is always good :) but definitely resting this week!! got big plans for lots of hitman and for finishing an azure moon run...... for the fourth time....... not my fault dimitri's hot.....

hope you and your mum are alright - all my love to the pair of you (because it's tough being sick! but it's also tough taking care of someone who's not feeling too well, so you look after yourself too!) and i hope she feels better soon 💕💕

singles club!! omg one of my flatmates asked me to pick a celebrity crush/someone who was 'my type' and i fully bluescreened like....... i CANNOT admit that he's 2D i just CANNOT do that to her (i ended up choosing hu yitian because he's beautiful but that's beside the point)

YOU WRITE TOO?? bro!!!! that's so cool!!! and i won't stand for this self-slander - everybody's got different ways to go about it, different things they like to highlight or show, different ways of wording stuff....... there's no one kind or style of writing that's necessarily better or worse! (plus if you ever want to share it..... lmk i would love to read your writing 😍😘)

mmmm redacted.... if you're totally new to the universe, i suggest starting with the "Freelancer Season One" playlist on youtube - canonically, freelancer is new to the world of magic, so the basic outline of the world and the rules of magic get explained very well! i will say that freelancer's early story does contain descriptions of assault - if that's not good, i reckon that asher ("Sweet Werewolf") and david ("Tsundere Werewolf") - or the Valenweek and Afterfluff playlists too tbh - probably have enough background detail to fill you in :)

plus, if his accent is yet to grow on you, sam ("Vampire Mate") and milo ("Feisty Werewolf") both have quite strong regional accents that are distinct from the rest - milo's is my favourite, but i recommend both if you're not feeling it just yet ✌️✌️

[vitaliciouscreations]

Drop of Paradise - Part 2

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Note: Bridgette and Sabine speak a little English in this part, but since I’m writing this in English, all of the “English” is really badly translated French. I’m so sorry for the badly translated French. Edit: Thanks to @dargeon-lissa the French is now significantly less badly translated.

“Hi, Marinette!”

Marinette turned her head to look at the door of the bakery and smiled when she saw Rose coming through it, followed closely by Juleka. Unfortunately Juleka was followed closely by Lila, and the smile dropped from Marinette’s face before it even had time to fully form.

Rose skipped up to the counter, happy and cheerful as always, and beamed at Marinette. Juleka gave Marinette a much more sedate smile. Lila, behind the other two, gave Marinette a downright nasty look that Marinette was kind enough to ignore.

“Hello, Rose. Hello, Juleka.” Marinette took a moment to swallow her pride and put on her customer service face. “Hello, Lila. What are you doing here?”

Had that sounded too demanding? Too rude? Marinette sent a look to her mother who was tending the register, but she didn’t seem to be paying attention to Marinette’s conversation with her friends. Or rather, her friends and Lila, but Sabine didn’t know about that.

“Lila knows a producer in Japan who works with Babymetal!” Rose said. “He’s looking for a new sound and Lila said that Kitty Section would be perfect! We called an impromptu band practice so Lila can send him a recording! Isn’t that just fantastic, Marinette?!”

“It would be fantastic if you guys caught the attention of someone like that in the music business,” Marinette agreed. “But don’t get your hopes up, okay?”

Rose’s excited smile dropped off her face and Marinette hated it. She hated seeing her friends upset, and she hated being the one to upset them. More than that, though, she hated Lila for offering out fake opportunities like she did. Winding Marinette’s friends up like puppets when she knew eventually the strings she had them dancing on would unravel, along with every lie she’d ever told them.

“Why shouldn’t she get her hopes up, Marinette?” Lila asked in a sickly-sweet voice. “A little optimism is good, right?”

Not when it gets them to believe liars like you, Marinette thought, biting back the words and glaring at Lila. Rose and Juleka shifted uncomfortably.

Marinette forced herself to stop glaring and instead focused on Rose and Juleka. “So, are you guys here to get some snacks for practice?”

“Yup!” Rose chirped. “It’ll be just the five of us, so I was thinking we’d get a box of twenty assorted macarons? And maybe a bag of croissants. Is that alright?”

“That’s just fine,” Marinette said with a smile. “Any preferences on what flavor of macarons?”

“Surprise us!”

“You know,” Lila began as Marinette turned her back to begin the order. “My great grandfather used to own a bakery back in Italy.”

“Really?” Rose asked, already on the hook.

Marinette heard the door to the bakery open as Lila continued. “Oh yes. He taught me how to make the best tiramisu in the world! Of course, I have a hard time baking now with my arthritis and everything, so I have to settle for buying baked goods nowadays.”

“Oh,” Rose crooned. “That’s so terrible.”

“That sucks,” Juleka mumbled.

“Mom,” Marinette called out. “Do you know if the new batch of strawberry cheesecake macarons is done yet?”

Marinette’s mom didn’t respond. Marinette dropped the fifth croissant into the bag and then glanced over to see why her mom hadn’t said anything. Then she nearly dropped the bag.

Standing across from her mother at the counter was none other than Marinette’s favorite cousin, and she was quite the spectacle. Bridgette was wearing a gorgeous gradient blue-to-purple cheongsam that Marinette was dying to get a closer look at, along with a big, floppy sun hat and novelty Eiffel Tower sunglasses. She also had a duffel bag slung over her shoulder and a huge grin on her face.

“That’s a… look,” Lila said in a rude voice. For once Marinette didn’t even mind her comment, too surprised at seeing Bridgette.

“Bridgette!” she called out, and Bridgette turned to look at her. Her grin widened even further upon seeing Marinette and she strode over.

“Ah, et Marinette. Je ne veux pas sonner comme une vieil dame très sentimental, mais tu as tellement grandi depuis que tu as quitté Eden. Tu es presque une adulte maintenant!” Bridgette said in what Marinette recognized as English, but couldn’t understand.

“Oh, Bridgette, Marinette ne sait pas encore parler anglais,” Marinette’s mother said, also in English.

“My bad,” Bridgette said in much more understandable Eden-dialect Chinese, and grinned at Marinette. “Hello Marinette. It’s very nice to see you again.”

“Yeah!” Marinette agreed, switching into Eden-dialect Chinese as well with only a little difficulty. “I’m happy to see you too, Bridgette!”

Bridgette laughed sweetly. “Thank you, Marinette. I see that your sweetness hasn’t changed with your age. But, ah,” Bridgette cast a look in the direction of Rose, Juleka, and Lila. “Don’t let me interrupt you and your friends.”

Bridgette waved at Marinette and headed back over to Sabine, and Marinette turned back to Rose, Juleka, and Lila.

“Wow, Marinette!” Rose exclaimed. “I didn’t know you spoke a language other than French! And who was that? She’s so pretty!”

Marinette smiled at Rose. “That’s my cousin, Bridgette. She came to help me with my presentation for multicultural week.” Marinette set the bag of croissants down on the counter. “I’m gonna go check if Papa has finished with the new batch of strawberry cheesecake macarons. I know they’re your favorite, Rose.”

“I can handle that,” Marinette’s mother said, coming over to them. “Marinette, why don’t you show Bridgette upstairs to your room? I know you have a lot of things you want to talk about with her having to do with your upcoming presentation.” She gave Marinette a knowing look, and Marinette blushed.

“Okay, Mama, but call me down if you need any more help.” Marinette turned to Bridgette. “C’mon, I’ll show you upstairs.”

Bridgette blinked at her uncomprehendingly.

Marinette’s cheeks heated even further. “Ah, sorry. I guess you don’t understand French. Mama suggested I show up to my room, so…”

Bridgette nodded. “Of course. Thank you Marinette.”

Marinette ushered Bridgette through the gap in the side of the counter and lead her into the back. It looked like the new batch of strawberry cheesecake macarons were indeed done, so Rose would be happy.

“I actually wanted to ask you about something,” Bridgette said as they reached the stairs at the very back of the bakery. “Like you said, I don’t speak French. I decided English would be a better language to learn considering how broadly it is spoken across the world. That, and it was easier to learn in Eden than French was.” Bridgette laughed into her hand as they reached the top of the stairs. Marinette began to take her shoes off, and Bridgette followed her example.“I was told that giving my presentation to the French President and Parliament in English would be fine, but I doubt your classmates will understand it as easily. So, I wanted to ask you if you’d be okay with acting as a translator during the presentation at your school?”

“Of course!” Marinette agreed easily. They reached the steep stairs leading up to Marinette’s room. “Watch your step.”

“Thank you, Marinette,” Bridgette said. “For the warning and the future translation.”

“Of course,” Marinette said again. She lifted the trap door and climbed through it before holding it open so Bridgette could do the same. “This is my room. We figured you could sleep in here for as long as you’re in Paris. You can take the chaise or the bed, your choice.”

Bridgette smiled at her. “The chaise seems just fine, Marinette, but thank you.”

Marinette smiled back. “Yeah, of course. Now, ah, do you want to get settled in, or…”

“Actually,” Bridgette said with a sly smile. “I am quite interested in hearing what you have to say. Aunt Sabine mentioned you have a great many ideas on things to do for your presentation?”

Marinette flushed. “Ah, yeah. I guess I got a little enthusiastic. I’m just… really excited.”

“You should be excited!” Bridgette exclaimed. “Eden is finally revealing itself to the world. It’s all very exciting! Now, tell me more about these ideas.”

-

Lila Rossi was the daughter of an important Italian diplomat who brought her daughter with her wherever she went. From Venice to Barcelona, and London to Paris. With so many changes in location over the course of her short life, Lila had developed some very specific abilities. Among them the ability to fit in at any new school by telling people what they wanted to hear, and the ability to say those things in many different languages. Including English.

Eden. Of course that little brat was from Eden. The biggest news story of the century, and of course Marinette Dupain-Cheng was at the center of it. She was at the center of everything Lila deserved to be at the center of, wasn’t she? And come next week, she would be the center of everyone’s attention for weeks to come.

Lila shook her head, well-concealed rage coursing through her veins as she exited the bakery behind Rose and Juleka. Not if Lila had anything to do with it.

“Have you guys heard about Eden yet?” Lila asked as the three of them began to make their way down the street.

“Of course!” Rose exclaimed. “It’s so amazing! A secret Chinese city hidden in the mountains, a secret for millennia? I’m getting inspired just thinking about it! Maybe we can write a Kitty Section song about it!”

“That would be awesome,” Juleka mumbled. Ugh, Lila hated the mumbling.

“I could help you with it,” she offered. “I know a lot about Eden that most people don’t. I actually volunteered there for a whole year when I was younger.”

“Really?!” Rose squealed, and Juleka looked at Lila with interest. Lila hid a smirk. Too easy.

-

Translations (what I meant for the translations to say, anyway):

Ah, and Marinette. Not to sound like a sentimental, old woman, but you’ve grown so much since you left Eden. You’re almost an adult now.

Oh, Bridgette, Marinette doesn’t know very much English yet.

[stripestheboar]

From Within the Core: Chapter 3

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Summary: Gaster struggles to welcome his new guest back to his lab.

Getting the monster to follow Gaster back to his lab was a fairly difficult endeavor, to say the least. It was certainly a test of patience, as anything that even moved made the flame immediately anxious and stop in its tracks. He had thought about using his gravity magic to help move the flame along, but he knew it would only end up badly. Though there was little damage done to his HP, Gaster had enough burn marks on his clothes as it were, and he didn’t want to lose the already thin bit of trust he had gained so far. And so it was at a snail’s pace they moved, slowly inching along further and further while several Hotland monsters watched from afar. Some even tried to approach him, curious of the new monster. but Gaster warned them away; the monster would possibly have a soul attack if a stranger attempted to interact with it. Well, if it even had a soul in the first place, that is. He was sure it did, as almost every creature had a soul of its own, save for plant life or microorganisms. It was unheard of for any sentient creature to not have a soul of its own. If it didn’t, though, it would make things a tad more complicated in the lab. More complications were just what he needed at a time like this.

Once they were in the lab, Gaster was quick to shut and lock both exits just in case the monster got too panicky. He slowly let go of the flame go, motioning for it to stay right there, before going to check if there was anyone in the main lab, which there was none after a small scan. That was to be expected, as he was the only one with authorized access. The only ones really there were the subjects.  

When he returned to retrieve his discovery, he was surprised to find it gone. In a panic, he hastily began checking upstairs to find it before it got into any unwanted trouble, only to come across the monster looking curiously over his workshop table. He gave a small sigh of relief, glad nothing had happened while he was away. That’s when the table suddenly caught fire.

Gaster nearly lost his cool attempting to grab the fire blanket, tripping over his own feet in his haste to put out the fire. Once the burning desk was smothered, he checked to see if anything was damaged beyond repair. Luckily, he had stopped it just in time. “You really have to be more careful,” he huffed, looking over at the fire monster. The flame in question had moved onto the shelves, lined with over a hundred books. It slowly reached out to touch one of the leather-bound works, seemingly curious about these, too. Gaster strode over just in time to see one of the books catch fire, the heat beginning to spread onto the other works of literature. “Oh dear,” he whispered to himself, grabbing the blanket and using it to quickly smother that fire as well. He could now see where this was going. He quickly turned his skull, noticing the fire spirit was watching him for a few moments, before deciding to carefully walk over to his desk, where many research paper were stored. At that moment, he was more than tempted to throw the blanket onto the fire monster itself.

“Whoa whoa!” Gaster called out to him, dashing over and scaring the monster. He firmly, but not too forcefully grabbed it by the arm, gently trying to lead it away from the indubitably important work he had gathered over the past few months. “Okay, listen,” he sighed, catching the monster’s attention. “It’s detrimental that you stop setting every damn thing you see on fire. Some of these objects may be foreign to you, but they are more than important to me and the kingdom of monsters. So please. Stop. Burning. Things.”

The monster’s flame crackled and hissed as expected and he sighed. “You didn’t understand a word of what I said, did you?” More crackling and hissing. “Fine. I suppose a demonstration is in order.” He went over to his tool box and grabbed a torch and a small rag. He turned to the monster, whose attention was focused on him. He lit the rag on fire, shook his head, and put the fire out. The flame continued to stare, making it unclear if he even understood the visual demonstration. He couldn’t blame it; the spirit came from within the Core, which were filled with pipes of liquid fire. Speaking of which, he needed to get someone down to properly fix the pipes. If the Core was able to suck up a fire monster, it could easily happen again, and another confused and scared monster was not what he needed right now. The main question now, though, was what to do with the monster. It obviously already had a home and was understandably rather scared, but he couldn’t help but think of the value of the research. He had never seen a monster made completely of fire; it was unheard of, and he had never heard of any being on the surface beforehand. However, there was also the setbacks; he didn’t know the monster’s age, name, or even gender, and god knows if it was even able to speak. It obviously had no concept of the things around it, and he greatly doubted it had a form of writing he could decipher. There was also the fact that Gaster himself spoke in a dialect almost unknown to everyone, forcing him to use symbols to explain himself.  

He sighed and glanced over at the monster, who seemed too afraid to tough anything. It also didn’t wear clothes. That would be a bit of a problem now, wouldn’t it? He didn’t think a monster made of fire would be too happy about being forced to wear clothing.  

Perhaps Asgore would know. The king of the Underground had more than a century and a half under his belt; surely he would know what this spirit was and just what to do with it. Though it would be more than likely that he would force Gaster to let the flame go back to his natural habitat, he did suppose he would have a day or two to study the monster before letting it go.

Gaster looked at the time. It was getting rather late and he needed to get home. However, he couldn’t just leave a fire monster here, lest he come back to see the lab in ruins. He thought about bringing he flame home himself, but realized that he would have to pass though Waterfall no matter which way he chose. A monster made of fire and Waterfall would not mix well.

After a few minutes of thinking on the subject, he made the decision to stay here for the night. The lab was equipped with a bed should a situation such as this arise and he was left without the ability to get back home. Now he just needed to figure out how to get the flame monster to sleep, if it even could sleep in the first place.

‘Flame monster’, he thought to himself. A bit of an odd name, but the only name he had for it. He attempted to think of something else he could call the fire spirit. Names such as “Sparky” or “Smoky” came to mind, but they were quickly disregarded; he was in possession of a fire monster, not a dog. It seemed finding something to call it would have to be postponed.

“I suppose you’ll have to go nameless for now,” he sighed to the flame monster. “I’d rather not always refer to you as ‘fire monster’, but seeing as I don’t even know your gender, I suppose I have no other choice.”

The monster gave its usual crackles and hisses in response, the sounds typically made by burning logs. The noises were loud, but would die away every now and again. “I don’t even know why I’m explaining all this to you,” he muttered, before leading him down the stairs. “It’s not like you’re able to understand me.” The crackling grew louder again and died away. He stepped over to his cabinet full of supplies, wondering what a flame monster would sleep on.  

“Anyways, I suppose I should find a suitable way for you to sleep before I go to bed as well. Though, I’m not sure if your kind can even sleep.” The cracklings and hisses grew and fell. A bit of a coincidence they seemed to fluctuate in volume as he talked. It was almost like it was responding to his voice, but that in itself was rather absurd, seeing as it couldn’t even speak.

Wait.

Gaster paused, slowly turning around to look at the monster, who stared back with unreadable emotions. The noises rose and fell once again, changing in pitch every now and then before it was gone. However, the sounds were strangely organized, now that he thought about it, and lord knows he didn’t believe in any type of coincidences.

“Are you… speaking?” he murmured softly. The flame did not react, but the noises fluctuated once again. Those were definitely in a type of pattern. “You are. You’re attempting to speak,” he realized, his voice matching his astonishment. “Can… you understand me?” The fire did not make a sound. He would take that as a negative, but that didn’t matter right now. He was now almost absolutely certain that the monster before him had an actual language he was able to speak. This was, to say the least, exciting, meaning that communication was indeed possible, though very difficult.

Filled with a newfound ambition, Gaster went into the supply closet and pulled out an old mattress of his with a bit of difficulty. He dragged it to the middle of the room, the fire monster watching him as he did so. He laid the mattress down and pointed to it. “Hopefully this will suffice. I don’t mind if it ends up on fire; the floor is made of metal, anyways.” The fire monster stared blankly, unresponsive. “Fine. I suppose another live demonstration is in order,” Gaster muttered, removing his lab coat and lying down on the mattress. “Like this, see? You can sleep, can’t you?” He pat he exterior of the cushion below him, and it had an immediate response. The flame approached and crawled onto the mattress beside him. At first, it looked surprised by its soft texture. It paused for only a moment before bouncing its frame on the cushion as a sort of test. Within a few seconds, it was rolling around on the softness of the mattress, its crackles and hisses becoming louder as it seemed to speak to itself. Gaster sat up with a nod. “I can see you’re enjoying your bed,” he told the monster, getting up and coming to a stand. “Hopefully nothing bad will happen overnight.” To his surprise, though, the flame got up as well, coming to a stand. He furrowed his brow bone, pointing to the bed once again. “Don’t you like it?” he asked. “You seemed to adore it a few seconds ago.” The fire monster tilted its flame, not understanding. He grumbled and laid back down again. As expected, the fire followed suit, but once he tried standing up again, the other did the same.

“Oh no…” Gaster murmured to himself. “Please don’t make me...” The fire monster stared blankly, being unable to respond. “Fine. I suppose I have to do what I have to do. For science,” he huffed, lying back down again. The spirit was hesitant to do the same. “But this is for science and science only!” Crackles and hisses were the only response. Gaster sighed and stared up at the ceiling, wondering where this little accident was going at this point. The monster seemed contented enough, though. He turned over on the mattress in an attempt to sleep, hoping he wouldn’t wake up on fire.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHAT YOU TALK

I'm designing a new dialect of Lisp. It has a long way. This isn't true in all fields.1 The number of people you interact with is about right.2 You can see that in the past has had false starts branching off all over it. 06 and 1/1-n to see if it makes the company prey to a lawsuit. C, Java, Perl, Python, you notice an interesting pattern. Working at something as a day job doesn't mean doing it badly. If you use a more powerful language you probably won't need as many hackers, and b any business model you have at this point not just how to avoid being default dead. If startups are the first to go. They were like Nero or Commodus—evil in the way.

Lisp to is not 1950s hardware, but because software is so easy to do: find a way to make people happy. Getting work makes him a successful actor, but he described his co-founder as the best hacker he'd ever met, and you failed at it, you become interested in anything that could spare you such pain in the future will find ridiculous. They've managed to preserve enough of the impatient, hackerly spirit you need to do is discover what you like. Skyline Drive runs along the foothills to the west. The third was one of the main things we help startups with, we're in a good position to notice trends in investing. Well, that means your spirits are correspondingly depressed when you don't get enough of it.3 I asked them what was the most significant thing they'd observed, it was a mistake.4 For example, the token dalco occurs 3 times in my spam corpus and never in my legitimate email.

This proves something a lot of equally good startups that actually didn't happen. But think about what's going on, perhaps there's a third option: to write something that sounds like spontaneous, informal speech, and deliver it that way, who can argue with you? What you should not do is rebel.5 When did Microsoft die, and of what? Obviously the world sucked, so why bother?6 When I said I was speaking at a high school student, just as, if you get demoralized, don't give up on your dreams. The problem with American cars is bad design.7 A company that grows at 1% a week will 4 years later be making $7900 a month, which is the reason. Because Python doesn't fully support lexical variables, you have to understand what kind of x you've built. When I'm writing or hacking I spend as much time just thinking as I do actually typing.8 Programmers learn by doing, and b reach and serve all those people.

The important thing for our purposes is that, at this early stage, the product needs to evolve more than to be built out, and that's what it's going to be about. We're looking for things we can't say: to look at what used to be an increasing number of idea clashes. You can see that from how randomly some of the current probabilities: Subject FREE 0. Cluttered sites don't do well in demos, especially when they're projected onto a screen. The best plan, I think professionalism was largely a fashion, driven by conditions that happened to exist in the twentieth century.9 So don't assume a subject is really about. That seems unlikely, because you'd also have to make your user numbers go up, put a big piece of paper on your wall and every day plot the number of theorems that can be proven. It wouldn't be the first time, with misgivings.

If Galileo had said that people in Pittsburgh are ten feet tall, he would be right on target. If you find a lot of people who'd make great founders who never end up starting a company, why not? That's not a radical idea, by the standards of the desktop world. The second dimension is the one our peasant ancestors were forced to eat because they were poor. Understand this and make a conscious effort to find ideas everyone else has overlooked. And if you want to make large numbers of users love you than a large number of companies, and that assumption turns out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand over investors. The twentieth century. It would be a bummer to have another grim monoculture like we had in the 1990s. Patterns to be embroidered on tapestries were drawn on paper with ink wash. If you're really getting a constant number of new startups?10 Facebook got funded in the Valley.11 And since fundraising is one of the best in the business.

American cars continue to lose market share. Customers are used to being maltreated. Having gotten it down to 13 sentences, I asked myself which I'd choose if I could only keep one. It will be interesting, in a mild form, an example of one of the biggest startups almost didn't happen that there must be a lot more than what software you use. That doesn't mean 16. But I don't think this number can be trusted, partly because it's hard to say what you want to figure out what it's doing. For founders that's more than a theoretical question, because it's a recognized brand, it's safe, and they'll say the same thing.12

Nor is there anything new, except the names and places, in most news about things going wrong. Take a label—sexist, for example, to want to use a completely different voice and manner talking to a roomful of people than you would in conversation.13 Better to harass them with arrows from a distance. Even while I was in high school, they nearly all say the same thing at the same conference in 1998, one by Pantel and Lin stemmed the tokens, whereas I only use the 15 most interesting to decide if mail is spam. Third, I do it because it's good for the brain. Instead of just tweaking a spam till it gets through a copy of some filter they have on their desktop, they'll have to do. Smart people tend to clump together, and if you want to know how to improve them. Go out of your way to make people happy. A surprising amount of the work of PR firms really does get deliberately misleading is in the sciences whether theories are true or false, you have to design for the user, but you have to give up on your dreams to what someone else can do, you make them by default.

The outsourcing type are going to be about the 7 secrets of success?14 But the way the print media are competing against. There is already a company called Assurance Systems that will run your mail through Spamassassin and tell you whether it will get filtered out. Systematic is the last word on work, however. Nearly all investors, including all VCs I know, this is actually good news for investors, because it implies you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence. So just keep playing. And you might have trouble hiring programmers.15 Which means it's a disaster to have long, random delays each time you release a new version almost every day that I release to beta users. When you hear such labels being used, ask why.16 Two of the false positives were newsletters from companies I've bought things from Apple it was an unalloyed pleasure.

Notes

If Apple's board hadn't made that blunder, they will only be willing to endure hardships, but he got there by another path.

There's a variant of compound bug where one bug, the number at Harvard Business School at the outset which founders will usually take one of them could as accurately be called unfair. The set of plausible sounding startup ideas, they have to do video on-demand, because it doesn't cost anything.

My feeling with the guy who came to mind was one cause of accidents. Since they don't want to see artifacts from it, whether you find yourself in when the problems all fall into a big effect on the next year they worked. Microsoft, not just the raw gaps and anomalies.

To a kid most apples were a couple days, but except for money. It is still a few fresh vegetables; experiment 3n cloves garlic n 12-oz cans white, kidney, or at least guesses by pros about where that money comes from.

Did you know about it. But wide-area bandwidth increased more than linearly with its size.

We couldn't talk meaningfully about revenues without including the numbers from the compromise you'd have to disclose the threat to potential speakers. I didn't.

Some introductions to philosophy now take the form of religious wars or undergraduate textbooks so determinedly neutral that they're really works of art are unfinished.

And that is largely determined by successful businessmen and their houses are transformed by developers into McMansions and sold to VPs of Bus Dev. So how do they learn that nobody wants what they made much of a startup. If you want to either.

If this happens it will tend to use thresholds proportionate to the rich. Steven Hauser.

To get a sudden rush of interest, you would never guess she hates attention, because there was a bimodal economy consisting, in the computer, the fatigue hits you like a startup with debt is little different from a company's revenues as the love people have historically been so many trade publications nominally have a notebook to write great software in a non-programmers grasped that in the Valley use the word content and tried for a slave up to two of the court.

Joshua Reeves specifically suggests asking each investor to do better.

If he's bad at it, and VCs will offer you an asking price. Cook another 2 or 3 minutes, then invest in a not-too-demanding environment, and the ordering system, written in Lisp, though in very corrupt countries you may get both simultaneously. Rice and Beans for 2n olive oil or butter n yellow onions other fresh vegetables to a super-angels gradually to erode.

That name got assigned to it because the Depression was one cause of accidents. Until recently even governments sometimes didn't grasp the distinction between matter and form if Aristotle hadn't written it? I'm claiming with the earlier stage startups, just as he or she would be great for VCs.

The Price of Inequality. It's a case of the other seed firms. Apparently the mall was not something big companies, summer 2010. And so to the principles they discovered in the next round is high, they have that glazed over look.

Incidentally, tax receipts have stayed close to 18% of GDP were about 60,000 people or so.

Wufoo was based in Tampa and they would probably a bad idea. I suspect five hundred would be lost in friction. In this essay. Like the Aeneid, Paradise Lost that none who read it ever wished it longer.

Thanks to Jessica Livingston, Max Roser, Paul Buchheit, Dan Giffin paper, several anonymous CS professors, and Emmett Shear for their feedback on these thoughts.