SF writer with eighteen books - to date - of the future history of Machine Civilization. Semi-retired. Father of two wonderful, employed, debt-free daughters. Drunkard.
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Last Notes npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett @npub108z…dkr5 Most images not loading. They'll get about 5% then give up. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Fourth Law: a robodog shall do its best to love human beings. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I'd missed this reply. Answer is "yes," and her boyfriend is a 17yo farmer/fisher from former Wisconsin she literally fell on out of the sky. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett That's a short story collection; I've 3. An anthology is multiple writers. I'm using five for mine, 2 stories each. Due out Christmas. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett It pays to keep your eyes open (like mine now at 0320, wtf?). I saw this picture and a film started in my head. 3 days and 5100 words, and here's Pai Mendrovovitch. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett https://i.poastcdn.org/64362036b72e2b2e9d360131d09fab35b545565e31f010e8b278d85cec27f7b0.jpg npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett My 3rd collection, 19th book, is out to my editor. I flogged another short together for an anthology. And, just finished the raw 5100 words of 1 of 2 shorts for another anthology. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Yes, that what I recalled. An homage to Niven and his work writing on the animated series. He also did the more surreal episodes of season two of "Land of the Lost." npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Indeed, what with Niven introducing his Kzinti into the series. I seem to recall they did get a tiny cameo in one of the movies; the one with the whales, maybe? npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett After Frieren I have developed a weakness towards knife-ears. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Whoa... npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Would. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett What is it with you and ears? npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Too soon to make a kebab joke? npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett https://i.poastcdn.org/3b4880525800793d2713ef0bb8a9c48ead542147bda2d31599f57d4d713060de.jpg npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett When we watched this, my wife said, "she's relentlessly nice." npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett If your editor has any questions, ask him to reach out to the organizer, Stephen Zimmer. I'd do an email, but it's 2326 local and I'm out it. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Apologies. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett "Savings" should be silver and gold, backed by lead. Unless you also own land. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett What? Interesting is Interesting. I like it. Calm down. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Wow. Been with gf now wife for 35 years. I don't even know how many toes she has. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett "Could you identify your spouse by their feet?" npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett The apposite term is "race realist." npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I've some initial physical impressions (I've not yet read a word). You want that out in the open or in a chat? These are observations; your style is different from mine as I'm pushing 59 years old. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Missed something in the book? npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Arrived. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett It's a running joke that while watching anime, my wife and I will joke about "dodgy camera angles..." npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett "They always tell you what happened to them, but never why." npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Now do the owners. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett My wife is Hungarian. We use HOT from Szeged. In effing everything. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett We go thru that in a week. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I've seen urban camo. What is your recommendation for suburban, bedroom community? Serious question. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett This was and is my go-to npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Most Prods are "in the KJV..." and I tune them out. Lovely poetry but a shitty translation. When anyone of the Christian faith says, "in koine Greek, it was..." they have my full attention. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett On Sunday, I make super-concentrated ice tea, then drink that on the mornings before my DayJob all week. I'm vibrating from 0800-1030 and more productive than four other techs. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett @npub1qsv…8zwz npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett That's brilliant. Good Lord. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett GM, frens. Was warned last night that I'm going to be fired next quarter as someone came across my poa.st and Gab accts and forwarded them to our HR. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett God grants us free will to fuck ourselves up and choose Hell. He doesn't send anyone anywhere. Now, could He dial back the "chance to fuck yourself up" part? Probably. I'll ask in a few years. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett "Better over the moon that over Uranus! Thank you! I'll be here all week. Remember to tip your bartenders and waitresses." npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett It happens. I had a bad bout of RealLife from January to May and wrote bugger-all. That just made it worse. Saw something at church last Sunday and have been poasting raw snippets of that short, Bright Eyes. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett There are things which should not be in proximity in the "junk drawer." npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett After 18 books and being an old asshole, I do not take editing well. Copyediting? I send out what I think is clean copy and get back what amounts to a blood-soaked manuscript. You will never, ever, see your own mistakes. For 60-70k words, 500 correxions is not at all unusual. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett After a poor start to 2024, I pray I'm getting things back on rails. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett If you need an editor or cover designer, let me know. You must have a copyeditor. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett One of the main reasons I never make eye contact with pts in the hospital. Living dead. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I read this when Strike Witches first came out. I regard it as true. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Images loading very slowly. At my end or yours, @npub108z…dkr5 ? npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I once found a copy of Henry Ford's book. Yes, that one. Afraid they wouldn't sell it to me, I walked out with it. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Try discussing AI ensoulment. They sound like Blacks in a fight. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Finishing 3rd load, emptying dishwasher, taking huge bag of weeds to the curb. Toasted sourdough with brie for dinner (taking my wife out for steak tomorrow to try to reboot her mind after her taking care of her dying mother for 4 months). npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I take a multivitamin and vit D and C every morning. I'm trying to use this as an excuse to never help my wife in the yard again. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Similarly: wife nagged my for 13 months about the odd skin on my face. Finally saw a doc. Squamis cell carcinoma. They carved it out with a knife. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett And dunking women to see if they were witches. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I'm still slogging through "Plato Prehistorian" by Settegast. Amazing and the best $50 I ever spent on a book. Everything we've been taught is a lie. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett FFS, we're just talking to one another. It's so stupid to an old man such as me. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Having moved, by and large, from Gab to Poa.st, I was taught blocking was not done here. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett She had ink on her left arm and some tackle in her nose. But 23, fit, bright pharm tech, looks like Nicole 5? npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett My lust? npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Hate spending money on anything but meat and alcohol. But may have found an exception. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett In the Trailmix, sorry, Matrix movie from a generation ago, I picked up the term (and stole it) "residual self-image." My wife and I do not see ourselves as 58-year-old ofay lumps. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Awoo. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett It's a bedroom community 30 mi from Columbus. I still hate it. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I am increasingly convinced that leaving my house for any reason other than to buy meat and liquor is a mistake. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett King, Rowling, Martin are exemplars of when the C-Suite boys step in to get their beaks wet and throttle the editors. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Larry Niven and some other big name wrote some of their episodes. The animation is dated but the stories hold up. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Mother in law dead. Dog just had a seizure. Welcome to May. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett You see with your soul, not your eyes. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Shit. I wish I knew this five books ago. Then again, the tech probably didn't exist then. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I've two daughters in their early twenties. I'm about to the point of telling them to move to Belarus or China. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett It pisses off @GuardAmerican over at Gab to no end, but I'm an accelerationalist; the worse, the better. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett One of the reasons I embraced the "defund the police" movement. We could solve our problems in two to five days. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett A couple of my books have "prologues," but maybe a page. It's usually a chance for me to make a reader go, WTF? npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Titles are about the last things I deal with. I even tell my brilliant cover designer, "just block off the space, I'll get round to it." npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Daughter #1. Westerville, Ohio. Northern Lights. Carrington Event? npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett And if it's another Carrington Event, kiss poa.st goodbye. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Hetalia Hungary. In my mind's eye this is how I see my wife, who turned 58 today. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett This has been going on since cave paintings. All that matters is: npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I've heard some people call it "a very cliched series," but I think it is adorable. Then again, I'm an old man. I write enough excitement in my stories so enjoy just reading about two kids having a happy life. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Looks a bit like Hitomi but I do not recall this scene. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett >and I'm not so bad once you get to know me. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Arrived today. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I can think of eighteen more... npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I have pretty much everything of Niven's; got hooked about when I was 13 or so. Later came to realize that his occasional collaborator, Pournelle, was 10x a better writer. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett SD was top notch. I didn't understand much of it the first time I read it, but then much of PKD's work is like that. Sometimes you have to go paragraph by paragraph. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett >just told no more buying books npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett It's 2245 where I am. Tired. I will say that's a wall of text. Tl;dr I'll send a link tomorrow about back blurbs, as it helped me. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Following up on what I said, this made me pause. THAT is the reaction you want. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I was told by a well known author that my books are screenplays, not novels. But I don't see the Tribe in Hollywood rushing to option some Catholic monarchist fascist books any time soon. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Brighter. I like it. Back cover and blurb? npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Fussy dies a split second after the image, so there's that... npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Fucking win, right there. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett When I started this 9 years ago, I walked around places like Barns & Noble and Waldenbooks. What struck me was people looking back; that is, faces on covers. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett I'd put echoes up as the subtitle and your name down. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett You've 0.25 sec at best to catch someone's eye. To make them pause. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Better. Add some color. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett So long as I can check their genitalia, this is fine. Almost preferable. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett "Don't you think a lot of camera angles in anime are a little dodgy?" npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett Don't know about Aus-land, but here in FUSA during the Covidiocy, a hospital got $48,000 per pt they intubated from the federal government. npub13czu7xwxgs5tat8ycflch0xjlhdnytzg33dy6vyjshl8cep05chsz4qyvv Clayton Barnett When I worked at the county hospital*, once I heard a pt in ICU was intubated, I quipped, "Well, they're dead."
