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What is my response when asked what I do for a living? 👉
Hint: I’m a technical writer.
Extra hint: The pointer is the answer.

I love saving precious microseconds everyday. (So far I’ve got about 15 minutes in reserve!) Imagine just typing ‘mbphotos’ and having it replaced with ‘📷📸’. Fun!

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The Replacements

Hi All! I love saving precious microseconds everyday. (So far I’ve got about 15 minutes in reserve!) Imagine just typing ‘mbphotos’ and having it replaced with ‘📷📸’. Fun! A way to do this is with Text Replacements on Mac. Look under Settings and then Keyboard. I’ve collected all of the replacements pictured below into two files. MB Text Replacements.plist is a Mac preference file. You can import the contents by dropping the file on the open Text Replacements dialog box (in Settings | Keyboard).

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I am ready to make this admission. I do this on my own volition.

An e-bike is really just half a golf cart.

I still like them. I still ride them. I am not secretly looking for a tandem.

Thank you.

language

If language is funny, then character recognition is hilarious.
Okay, so it’s something like, uh…zero beasts went by road to Omega building.
Right?—No, I’ve got it: ecitto, Italian slang for an etching often offered as a party favor.
Or were you able to flip and rotate the text in your mind’s eye to read ”OFFICE”?

Office sign, reversed and transposed a quarter turn, on yellow wall.

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well

The way Elizabeth Montgomery’s Samantha said “Well.” stuck with me since I first heard it. So much happening, 3 or 4 syllables in one word. What a gem.

Elizabeth Montgomery - still frame from TV series Bewitched

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Standard brain:
“Okay, they just said something. Right, not sure what they mean. Let me ask…”.

Standard brain with recent modifications:
“Okay, they just said something. Right, prepare a response to the worst possible interpretation. Everything is riding on this. Ready…aim…”

Just exactly how many action film franchises have the dead love interest underwater scene? It’s in Lethal Weapon. It’s in Bourne. It’s in Bond.

I’m interested in that alien environment with no air, float and stare moment as a popular aesthetic choice for the brutal, typical plot development of the lead character.

Is it in other films I’m not remembering right now?

Sure, I wanna be a Jason, but I’m really much more a Nicky. That’s Treadstone Psych 101.

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