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Writer's Block: Out of Uniform
Apr. 3rd, 2009 09:51 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
All I ever wear in public is my duty black. When I get home, I go naked.
What?
All I ever wear in public is my duty black. When I get home, I go naked.
What?
Apr. 3rd, 2009
Yes, I am familiar with the following: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, serverside and clientside apps, CGI, Perl, Python, ASP and PHP.
I can't guarantee I'm going to be a shit hot whiz at all of them, but I can find my way around a web page in whatever language it's written, and tell you what it does.
And no, I don't know everything about each of these languages. Who the hell does? Not even the people who invented them now know everything about their children, because languages evolve with the needs of the users - especially computer languages - and thus evolve very quickly beyond the original specifications of their creators.
My fluency in each language also varies, from highly advanced in the case of HTML and CSS, to pretty good in the case of Javascript, to a basic level in some of the other cases. But that's the whole point. Even with twenty years' experience of computers, going on for thirty, you can't find the time to get to be a total master of everything, so you concentrate on being really good at some things and moderately good to pretty okay in everything else.
And my competitors might have had "two years' experience" in a given skill set, but is that two years' real experience of life, or just two years sitting at a desk for thirty hours a week, staring at a screen and cutting and pasting code that already exists and has been written somewhere else? Because if you want one of those sort of employees, I could do that too.
But that would be a waste of your salary.
I can't guarantee I'm going to be a shit hot whiz at all of them, but I can find my way around a web page in whatever language it's written, and tell you what it does.
And no, I don't know everything about each of these languages. Who the hell does? Not even the people who invented them now know everything about their children, because languages evolve with the needs of the users - especially computer languages - and thus evolve very quickly beyond the original specifications of their creators.
My fluency in each language also varies, from highly advanced in the case of HTML and CSS, to pretty good in the case of Javascript, to a basic level in some of the other cases. But that's the whole point. Even with twenty years' experience of computers, going on for thirty, you can't find the time to get to be a total master of everything, so you concentrate on being really good at some things and moderately good to pretty okay in everything else.
And my competitors might have had "two years' experience" in a given skill set, but is that two years' real experience of life, or just two years sitting at a desk for thirty hours a week, staring at a screen and cutting and pasting code that already exists and has been written somewhere else? Because if you want one of those sort of employees, I could do that too.
But that would be a waste of your salary.
Writer's Block: In a Jam
Apr. 3rd, 2009 02:30 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Oh, so many to choose from.
But if it came down to it, I'd love to write up one for myself, get published and then have that character solve the mystery.
Much more satisfying.
Otherwise, oh, Dr Mark Sloan, perhaps, or Jessica Fletcher. Perhaps Sgt Bullock from the Batman comic; Rorschach from Watchmen; Terry Pratchett's embittered, drying out, recovering alcoholic ex-Sergeant Vimes; Detective Inspector Morse; Detective Robert Goren, NYPD Major Crimes Unit; or Detectives Green and Lennie Briscoe of the NYPD Robbery / Homicide Division.
Oh, so many to choose from.
But if it came down to it, I'd love to write up one for myself, get published and then have that character solve the mystery.
Much more satisfying.
Otherwise, oh, Dr Mark Sloan, perhaps, or Jessica Fletcher. Perhaps Sgt Bullock from the Batman comic; Rorschach from Watchmen; Terry Pratchett's embittered, drying out, recovering alcoholic ex-Sergeant Vimes; Detective Inspector Morse; Detective Robert Goren, NYPD Major Crimes Unit; or Detectives Green and Lennie Briscoe of the NYPD Robbery / Homicide Division.
Today and Tonight
Apr. 3rd, 2009 07:48 pmEarlier today I bumped into a friend of mine, John Oakes. Apparently he is heading off to the United States in the next few days, for a twelve week stay with his girlfriend. I wish him all the very best of luck. :)
And now for tonight's agenda. I'm going to finish the night with baked beans served with pitta bread, and then off to bed earlyish, perhaps with this little laptop in tow so I can write some more of the Fourth Rewrite. I had an idea for a plot twist at the end of what I'm doing, which of course has ramifications for the future of the story and takes it in directions I never imagined the previous Rewrites to have gone. But that is actually a good thing.
I also have time, now, to enjoy looking through Night Stalkers for Hunter: the Vigil while I'm in bed tonight.
When did I turn into someone who thinks nothing of reading about vampires in bed at night? The contents of half the books I have on my bookshelf would send most Mundanes running away, screaming, calling the police. After all, these are the books most defense solicitors usually state are on the bookshelves of those wack job morons who kill old people, cut out and boil their hearts and drink their victims' blood.
And damn me ... not only do I read "these kinds of books": I've written for them, too.
Huh. How about that?
All this talk about cooking's making me hungry, now.
And now for tonight's agenda. I'm going to finish the night with baked beans served with pitta bread, and then off to bed earlyish, perhaps with this little laptop in tow so I can write some more of the Fourth Rewrite. I had an idea for a plot twist at the end of what I'm doing, which of course has ramifications for the future of the story and takes it in directions I never imagined the previous Rewrites to have gone. But that is actually a good thing.
I also have time, now, to enjoy looking through Night Stalkers for Hunter: the Vigil while I'm in bed tonight.
When did I turn into someone who thinks nothing of reading about vampires in bed at night? The contents of half the books I have on my bookshelf would send most Mundanes running away, screaming, calling the police. After all, these are the books most defense solicitors usually state are on the bookshelves of those wack job morons who kill old people, cut out and boil their hearts and drink their victims' blood.
And damn me ... not only do I read "these kinds of books": I've written for them, too.
Huh. How about that?
All this talk about cooking's making me hungry, now.
