A reference tool I'll be using a lot in the coming months

Also, a good-morning present for everyone who can't believe "how much caffeine" (Coke Zero) I drink.

That large americano you're clutching? Yeah. That's a six-pack of Dr. Pepper, packed into about 5 minutes of sipping.

Heck, even a cup of tea is two of my sodas.

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It seems to me that crime and noir authors have taught me the most, using the fewest words

Here's to Elmore Leonard, a man that knew his craft.

Originally shared by +Northwest Institute of Literary Arts

RIP, Elmore Leonard. Here, his 10 Rules for Writing: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/16/arts/writers-writing-easy-adverbs-exclamation-points-especially-hooptedoodle.html

WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle – New York Times
These are rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I’m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what’s taking place in the story. If you have a facility for

Look, here's how it works for me

"Welcome to the dystopian present. I always thought it would be a lot more foggy and rainy. "

Originally shared by +Jerome Comeau

Look, here's how it works for me.

I don't want my government to protect me from terrorists; protecting me from terrorists is basically impossible anyway.

I want my government to protect me from corporations. Because those motherfuckers are straight-up trying to kill me every fucking day and not for ideological reasons, but for cash. I can generally converse with an ideologue, one way or another, but mercenaries just don't give a damn about anything but money.

"od: a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc."

Huh. I thought that was something they made up for Atomic Robo (at least whenever Thomas Edison reared his villainous head).

Dictionary.com Word of the Day
Tweet a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc. “I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force—I …