How to pitch an editor – Great tips from Esther Schindler, who knows, for freelance writers on how to get an editor to buy an article.
I’m looking to broaden my portfolio into general-interest, tech journalism, which is an area where I have zero reputation. So I’ll be (metaphorically speaking) pinning this article prominently to my bulletin board.
(I actually don’t have a bulletin board and don’t print things out. But you know what I mean.)
Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft
Six years ago today, a girl in the park wanted me and Minnie to participate in a science experiment about handedness in dogs. She said Minnie had to be able to to sit and give paw on command. I said Minnie wasn’t reliable on that — truth is, we have never done it. The girl said we couldn’t participate. Minnie’s self-esteem was severely damaged (by which I mean Minnie had no idea what was going on and continued cheerfully on her way).
Feels like the news has been the same every day for a couple of weeks, but something big will reach a tipping point any day now.
Doctor Who: McGann, Eccleston & Tennant Doctors Unite For New Story — New Doctor Who miniseries will feature the Christopher Eccleston, Paul McGann, and David Tennant Doctors, as well as Billie Piper’s character, Rose Tyler, on “every possible media platform apart from the main Doctor Who television series,” including “novels, comics, audio, video games, VR games and even a new series of Doctor Who themed escape rooms.”
Sounds exhausting.
Fortnite and the Metaverse: Why Epic Games may build the next version of the Internet – Fortnite is building the Metaverse – a parallel universe in virtual reality.
The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories – Pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth started working on the book series “The Art of Computer Programming” in 1962. It’s still unfinished.
First-person account of how Covid-19 hit hard in a rural Georgia town – On the Today, Explained podcast
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter was out of stock last time I was at the supermarket. I expected the same when I went to the supermarket yesterday. But I was pleasantly surprised to see they had a good quantity on the shelves.
I exclaimed joyously, “I can’t believe it’s I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!”
Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic
++ Indie booksellers are doing pretty well in the pandemic, including Barnes & Noble, which is rebooting as an indie chain;
++ Listen to the podcast of “Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town,” one of my favorites of Cory’s novels;
++ Billionaires are making big money on the pandemic, while their employees go broke and risk death;
++ The pandemic proves ISP data-caps were always a pretense;
++ And Denver Health Medical Center cuts healthcare workers' pay while giving executives five- and six-figure bonuses.
A former neighbor of Joe Biden’s accuser Tara Reade has come forward to corroborate her sexual-assault account, saying Reade discussed the allegations in detail in the mid-1990s – Business Insider.
I’m still for Biden but this is troubling to say the least.
The chairman of Tyson Foods warns the food supply chain is breaking – Neoliberalism treats resiliency as waste, and Tyson is a chief culprit here. If you treat your employees like disposable components, you can’t keep up with an emergency.
A New York ER doctor who treated coronavirus patients took her own life. – The New York Times
“Make sure she’s praised as a hero, because she was," Dr. Lorna M. Breen’s father said. “She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.”
Yes.
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Six years ago today was a weekend day and I went to the mall. Out and around people, not wearing a mask or gloves!
From my journal:
Shopped for sandals, stopped in at Apple Store, looked in at Microsoft store (an eerie clone of the Apple store but none of the computers on display connect to anything other than the Microsoft Store demo website and one of the computers was broken). I had a dirty soy chai latte, which a friend regularly drinks. It was very tasty.
While leaving the Apple store I walked into a glass wall, thinking it was a passageway, and bumped my head. Smooth!
I went grocery shopping yesterday. Plastic bag reuse has been suspended in California for the crisis. The cashier said she was glad about that. People bring in some disgusting bags for re-use, she said.
