Steven Hoefer🖋 @readsteven@mastodon.xyz

Someday I'm going to make a Mission: Impossible 66 Labels bot (Inspired by Batman 66 Labels over on the Tweetsite.) There's more than 150 hours of this stuff.

Chekhov's Gauge: If you have a red line on your gauge, you must use it by the end of the episode. (Watching old Mission: Impossibles)

This video was made to show what a script supervisor does, but most of it applies to fiction writing as well. Maintaining the continuity and flow of action is a basic task of writers and editors. Sloppy continuity can throw a reader out of the scene as much as a film viewer. https://youtube.com/watch?v=NAvn7CNpdB8
#amwriting #amediting

Thank you, Adobe.
Without you, I'd never see the crash reporting screen. I'd forget what the beachball looked like. My project folders wouldn't fill with recovery files.
So, thank you, Adobe, for all that you do.

Today a friend told me about their post-Cheers head cannon, mostly involving Cliff joining Norm and Vera in a throuple, solving all three's relationship problems.
I've decided I'm super into this.

The papercraft vintage computers you never knew you needed to obsess over. http://rockybergen.com/

The science behind why I'd really rather read than watch a rambling video. (tl;dr: Reading comprehension handily beats listening when learning something new.) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/sunday/audiobooks-reading-cheating-listening.html

"Two-time interstellar traveler Humanity..." https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-voyager-2-probe-enters-interstellar-space

Maybe a vampire?
- Only travels in the dead of night.
- Ageless.
- Only visits people who invite him into their homes.
- Flies.
- Enters homes through chimneys (like bats).
- Superhuman speed.
- Impossible to photograph.
- Bound to North Pole.

He has super powers, but is not a hero—nothing he does has risk. Closer to a attention-seeking cult leaderish villain. I mean, if you could produce arbitrary things for children, why give only 'good' kids toys when you could feed and shelter every poverty-stricken child?

This is a trippy neat little demo: Using projection mapping to change the apparent material of a dynamic scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c40cxE-dfPg (Doesn't need audio.) So slick, it took me a minute to figure out what was going on.

Someone saw Mastodon open on my tablet today and said "Looks like you're up to something fun!"

No one ever said that when they saw Tweetsite on my screen.

First recordings of the wind from the surface of Mars. (You'll probably need headphones.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=36&v=yT50Q_Zbf3s

Most people seem to be assuming that the Tony Stark scene, because it's at the beginning of the trailer, is at the beginning of the movie.

It could be at the end of the movie. (Hell, it could be an end credit scene.)

Yay! A collection of optimistic science fiction is on its way. Some great authors are on board. https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18055980/better-worlds-science-fiction-short-stories-video

Today's very weird fact: The SR-71 Blackbird was initially specified with a coal slurry power plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Fuel