Comments for Typosphere http://typosphere.com Website of Science Fiction Writer Ron Collins Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:23:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Comment on Ask a Writer by Moses Siregar III http://typosphere.com/2011/02/26/ask-a-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-3750 Moses Siregar III Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:23:53 +0000 http://typosphere.com/?p=578#comment-3750 Thanks for mentioning our podcast, Ron! Thanks for mentioning our podcast, Ron!

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]]> Comment on The Hacker’s Diet by Ron Collins http://typosphere.com/2011/02/13/the-hackers-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3603 Ron Collins Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:23:50 +0000 http://typosphere.com/?p=549#comment-3603 Bingo. :) Bingo. :)

]]> Comment on The Hacker’s Diet by tobias s buckell http://typosphere.com/2011/02/13/the-hackers-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3601 tobias s buckell Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:06:14 +0000 http://typosphere.com/?p=549#comment-3601 "I wrote up a quick spreadsheet tool that took into account what we weighed, did some back calculating to estimate the calories we were consuming, and then ran weight projections over weeks and months based on work out magnitudes that predicted what we would weigh at some form of equilibrium. Yes, that really can be done. It’s just biological science, and the results are pretty much predictable" You know what, almost no one believes this. But I just took my daily calorie counts from Lose It into CSV format, plugged them into a spreadsheet, and looked at what it would predict as far as weight gain/loss based on *just the calories* and then laid those next to actual observed loss and gain. Sure enough... “I wrote up a quick spreadsheet tool that took into account what we weighed, did some back calculating to estimate the calories we were consuming, and then ran weight projections over weeks and months based on work out magnitudes that predicted what we would weigh at some form of equilibrium. Yes, that really can be done. It’s just biological science, and the results are pretty much predictable”

You know what, almost no one believes this. But I just took my daily calorie counts from Lose It into CSV format, plugged them into a spreadsheet, and looked at what it would predict as far as weight gain/loss based on *just the calories* and then laid those next to actual observed loss and gain.

Sure enough…

]]> Comment on PEBA by Typosphere » Blog Archive » “See the PEBA for $25 a Day” Released! http://typosphere.com/peba/comment-page-1/#comment-3548 Typosphere » Blog Archive » “See the PEBA for $25 a Day” Released! Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:56:56 +0000 http://typosphere.com/?page_id=521#comment-3548 [...] PEBA [...] [...] PEBA [...]

]]> Comment on Draft Done! by John Rodriguez http://typosphere.com/2010/12/13/draft-done/comment-page-1/#comment-3517 John Rodriguez Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:33:40 +0000 http://typosphere.com/?p=507#comment-3517 If you haven't read this story yet, you should. It's a classic coming-of-age tale built around baseball and the power the game has to connect people. Visit http://pebabaseball.com/index.php/news-archive-pebalinks-56 and look for articles written by "Casey Neal". I'm sure you'll become as absorbed with the story as I was. If you haven’t read this story yet, you should. It’s a classic coming-of-age tale built around baseball and the power the game has to connect people. Visit http://pebabaseball.com/index.php/news-archive-pebalinks-56 and look for articles written by “Casey Neal”. I’m sure you’ll become as absorbed with the story as I was.

]]> Comment on A Wave of Words by Ron Collins http://typosphere.com/2010/11/29/a-wave-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-3516 Ron Collins Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:53:39 +0000 http://typosphere.com/?p=505#comment-3516 Good luck on the edit, Darren. It's always interesting to see the different way writers do their thing. Good luck on the edit, Darren. It’s always interesting to see the different way writers do their thing.

]]> Comment on A Wave of Words by Darren Hawkins http://typosphere.com/2010/11/29/a-wave-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-3514 Darren Hawkins Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:51:10 +0000 http://typosphere.com/?p=505#comment-3514 I'm so with you on this, Ron. I never intentionally set out to do NANOWRIMO (because I pride myself on not being a joiner), but something about mid-to-late October tends to find me with a novel project in mind. I've always been romantically inclined towards the idea of hibernating with a project through the winter and emerging in the spring with a completed text. Don't know why. It's just how my writing mind operates. I've done 90k words in November, plan to have the first draft by Xmas and then spend January and February in that coldly glaring at the pile of crap and its failures/revising stage I like to call editing. I’m so with you on this, Ron. I never intentionally set out to do NANOWRIMO (because I pride myself on not being a joiner), but something about mid-to-late October tends to find me with a novel project in mind. I’ve always been romantically inclined towards the idea of hibernating with a project through the winter and emerging in the spring with a completed text. Don’t know why. It’s just how my writing mind operates.

I’ve done 90k words in November, plan to have the first draft by Xmas and then spend January and February in that coldly glaring at the pile of crap and its failures/revising stage I like to call editing.

]]> Comment on Conversations With Story by Jarrod Szczeblewski http://typosphere.com/2010/09/16/conversations-with-story/comment-page-1/#comment-3193 Jarrod Szczeblewski Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:25:05 +0000 http://typosphere.com/?p=465#comment-3193 By simply adjusting the questions you ask when taking care of your life, you can instantly change your focus By simply adjusting the questions you ask when taking care of your life, you can instantly change your focus

]]> Comment on How Far Are You? by Ron Collins http://typosphere.com/2010/09/08/how-far-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3155 Ron Collins Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:55:17 +0000 http://typosphere.com/?p=450#comment-3155 John -- That's a philosophical question that this engineer with his HR lobotomy isn't sure he's qualified to answer. Dragon Tattoo takes a few chapters to get rolling, but I admit I enjoyed the characters quite a bit as he put the blocks in place so I never felt the need to put it down. John — That’s a philosophical question that this engineer with his HR lobotomy isn’t sure he’s qualified to answer.

Dragon Tattoo takes a few chapters to get rolling, but I admit I enjoyed the characters quite a bit as he put the blocks in place so I never felt the need to put it down.

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