Definitely. Your question falls into the same category as "white as a sheet", "green with envy", "Purple with anger" and "blue with sadness". In actuality, I can feel myself flushing, which is the act of bringing blood to the surface of your skin. That makes it red.
~Tom
Maggie Simpson comes to mind. There are several others, but they belong more to the Manga set.
~Tom
Man bites dog. Chaos ensues.
Ready! Fire! Aim! Dang it!
The timer reached zero. BOOM!
The unicorn bowed. "Hail Queen!"
Sword unsheathed. Strike. A kill.
Hey, this is real fun!
Hold my beer. Watch this.
"Never mind the smell. Dig!"
The huge wave struck. "Mayday!"
"Oh great. Vampires everywhere!"
"Shoot!"
~Tom
As far as backing up goes, Microsoft has a great piece of free software called SyncToy. You can get it from the MS site. The URL is:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/downloa … x?id=15155
It will run in Windows 10, but in order to use the task scheduler to automate backups, you have to do a tiny bit of fiddling (instructions are on the MS site also). There are three modes of operation:
Synchronize - which allows additions/revisions/deletions to be exchanged between source and destination
Echo - additions/deletions/revisions are only ECHOed to the destination from the source.
Contribute - additions/revisions are copied to the destination from the source, but deletions are not made.
I have it run every night, making sure that I have backups of my Documents directory on 2 separate USB drives.
Open Office works well for me as I do a lot of editing on my laptop which run only Linux. I've not noticed any problems between OE and Word, but I don't get too creative in the formatting arena anyway. One of the initial problems I had was that OE on Linux didn't have any of the fonts Word used. I installed them using the Ubuntu Software Center. Now I use the same fonts in both word processors.
~Tom
I got the notice and accepted the "notice of expired security certificate". It happens. The problem is that you get the notice in your browser BEFORE you can get to this site and read your explanation. Sort of a Catch 22.
~Tom
What you're seeing, Ann, is the contents of the email. The subject line doesn't identify the author. Some email clients automatically open the email on receipt or viewing (which is not a good thing in a few cases).
~Tom
On my home page, that listing is waaaaaay down at the bottom and takes a bunch of scrolling to get there. Plus, there are only 7 slots for new postings. At the moment, I have 12 emails in my inbox with no idea who they're for.
~Tom
I agree completely with Matthew, Sol. When I get eight or nine emails in my TNBW inbox it woudl be a good thing to be able to tell who they concern. This goes for Booksie also.
Why not just append the author's name instead of the word "connection"?
~Tom
Simple Hosannas and young girls throwing rose petals at my feet would be sufficient, Janet. You know my real name.
~Tom
The only sticking point I can see is that points garnered here cannot be transferred to anyone else. If they could, I'd be standing in line as I have 850 points.
~Tom
... would a corpse actually disintegrate in outer space? ...
I would suspect that even though in deep vacuum of space, that certain bacteria and spores we have in our bodies would remain viable and eventually (years vs days) decompose a body. If nothing else, it would eventually dessicate to the point of extremely dry dust. Note Arthur C. Clarke wrote "A Fall of Moondust" that described this dry dust to a "T".
~Tom
In the same movie (2001: A Space Odyssey), David Bowman blows the escape hatch of his shuttle and enters a vacuum for around 5 seconds until the ship's emergency hatch slams shut and the air rushes in. Very dramatic, but probably not relevant to what you are asking. I would imagine that a slow leak, plugged just in the nick of time, might cause "the bends" as Vern says. If the leak was small enough, and the air loss slow enough, the humans would eventually lose consciousness, pass out, and eventually disintegrate (ewww) like the scene in Sean Connery's movie "Outland".
~Tom
Welcome back, Karin. I think that summer has grabbed the attention of lots of people, including me.
~Tom
Are you ever coming back, Karen? I really miss chatting and reading your story.
~Tom
This looks like a really tiny operation, Janet. A virtual one-horse show. She probably got snippy because she was intimidated. I'd just pass this one by as a not-ready-for-prime-time operation.
~Tom
I've been writing for quite some time and have never felt the need to get past what I call my "OneCab". It is filled with notes and stuff for each of my stories. OneNote seems nice but only if you are starting out as a new writer. It would take me several months, if not more, to transcribe all the flotsam and jetsam (as Charles points out) into electronic notes. A lot of them are maps which I use to plot travels of my characters. They would have to be scanned in.
http://intellisigsys.net/pics/onecabinet.jpg
~Tom
If you are logging in using your old credential, you should be able to see your old posts. Mine were carried over from the old site just fine. If not, then send a quick email to Sol and see if he can help.
~Tom
If you post in The Next Big Writer Premium, it will be seen by everybody. Not much broader than that.
~Tom
Do you have any specific changes in mind you don't like? I went from the old site to this one as a beta-tester. I loved the changes.
~Tom
Isn't it amazing to have chance encounters like that? I was at the Dayton Hamfest and saw a guy who looked slightly familiar. Turned out he was in my radio-oriented Boy Scout troop back in 1958.
~Tom
I'd say you acted just fine, Janet. I would have done the same. In fact, I've done it on a couple of forums.
~Tom
Good one, Jack. Back when I was blogging heavily on Wordpress, I used to sign my posts with "T.O.M." which, in my mind meant The Old Man. It sort of morphed into Tom Oldman when I began to write stories and novels.
~Tom
Excellent, Max! I look forward to your sunny replies and your always-entertaining stories.
~Tom
