Now I’ve Gmail since it was invite only and I can not recall ever getting any spam in my inbox. I’ve started to receive actual spam in my inbox on an increasingly regular basis. While I generally like it I have noticed one issue and I can’t help but think this must be something with Spark. There’s a lot of YA power fantasy these days that involves hot girls with weapons.So sometime either last 2017 or early 2018 I decided to start using Spark vs the stock mail.app on iOS and eventually transitioned to using the Mac app as well. Rainbow Rowell’s heroine wields a laptop.įangirl is a writer’s fantasy. Cather Avery, a freshman at Nebraska, is a huge fan of Simon Snow, the boy-magician who has starred in seven long novels about a magic school. Cather writes Simon Snow fan fiction and has thousands and thousands of loyal readers. “I’m weirdly huge in Japan,” she remarks at lunch one day. She thinks nothing of bashing out three or four thousand words at a time, whenever she needs a new installment. Of course, any heroine needs a few obstacles. Cath’s father is bipolar, her mother is absent, her identical twin sister thinks Cath is a dork, her roommate thinks Cath is a joke, and Cath has no trace of self-confidence. “Think of how many beautiful first times you’ve written for Simon and Baz.” Despite a down-to-earth sensibility and a talent for writing steamy gay fanfic that won her an international audience, she’s got the sexual timidity of a mouse. “That’s totally different,” Cath said dismissively. Wren started giggling and then couldn’t stop. “-your own … and you’ve never even seen their parts.” “You’re more comfortable with their parts than -” She couldn’t stop giggling. “I try to write around it.” Cath was giggling, too. On top of this, Rowell has terrific fun by spinning the whole romance into a metafictional top, giving is fascinating snippets of the fantasy fan fiction, snippets of the “real” but imaginary fiction on which it’s based, and then turning everything very cleverly on its head.Ī couple of days back, the main hard drive gave out on my old PowerMac G5 I’ve been using as my email, correspondence, and accounting machine. Worse news was to come: the diagnostics said the main hard drive was toast, but they were none too sanguine about the state of the backup disk. And yes, sometimes, even the pros get caught. When an aging computer is acting badly, don’t reboot it: make another backup. It wasn’t a total disaster: the very worst case scenario only involved about a week or two of rekeying accounting records and a peeved biographer. The crucial stuff is backed up multiply and offsite. Worse, I couldn’t find our SATA drive sled, so I've been on tenterhooks for a couple days until a new sled arrived. Beyond Eudoraīut without the G5, we bid adieu to Eudora as an email client. That’s a bit of a blow: I’ve got an awful lot of email in Eudora, and I still like some aspects of Eudora better than mail.app. Nevertheless, I'm going to need to shift to a modern email environment.
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