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The document discusses several topics including acting and inhabiting different characters, thoughts on death, browsing a bookstore, predictions for upcoming technologies, authoritarian control in Turkey, characteristics of detectives in fiction, writing effective sales letters, cybersecurity risks and ransomware attacks, building a temperature display with Nixie tubes, social media and Messenger, losing interest in activities and life, and interesting websites for news and unusual products.

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Edn 2

The document discusses several topics including acting and inhabiting different characters, thoughts on death, browsing a bookstore, predictions for upcoming technologies, authoritarian control in Turkey, characteristics of detectives in fiction, writing effective sales letters, cybersecurity risks and ransomware attacks, building a temperature display with Nixie tubes, social media and Messenger, losing interest in activities and life, and interesting websites for news and unusual products.

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I'm in all of my characters.

I'm even in Harriet from This is Your Life, Harriet


Chance! I think there are universal emotional responses to things. There's always
the saying to walk a mile in someone's shoes. Take that a step further and strip
away the self. Instead of being a 49 year old guy, I was a 79 year old woman. My
history was her history. You start piling that stuff on and the new character's
decisions start to become real. That's the greatest thing for me: coming out of the
other end of a book and feeling like I'm a more expansive person.

To think with fear of the end of one's life is pretty general with human beings. It
is one of the means nature uses to conserve the life of the species. Approached
rationally, that fear is the most unjustified of all fears, for there is no risk of
any accidents to one who is dead or not yet born. In short, the fear is stupid but
it cannot be helped.

I took the girls out to dinner tonight and somehow we ended up at Barnes and Nobles
(as always it seems). I'm standing amidst a plethora of things I want to read, all
my senses are engaged and I'm completely in awe. I'm sure I looked like a slack
jawed yokel just staring off into space while my spawn walked the store picking out
their reading material for the week.

Once again we say good bye to one year and hello to a new one. It's always common
at the end of December to see lists of good and bad things that have happened over
the year then ending, and a similar list of projections for the upcoming year. I'd
like to do this a slightly different way. The first difference is that I don't want
to talk about the year just ending. The second difference is that while I'll talk
about some technologies with which you're probably already familiar, I want to give
more of my attention on upcoming trends that are getting less attention, with a
focus on technology. I've given up on making sports predictions … and any ones I
might make on entertainment would be laughable at best.

If Hungary stands in the shallow end of authoritarian control, Turkey is standing


on the edge of the deep end. Its President, Recep Tayyip Erdoan , has consolidated
a great deal of power in the hands of the state?—?in addition to his party
controlling Parliament, he has initiated widespread purges of dissidents in the
civil service, erected a lavish palace in 2014, and has graduated from a right
wing, socially conservative (but secular) platform to an openly autocratic
rhetoric, pandering to a populist base.

Now think about your favorite detective series. The main character doesn't evolve
and change by the end, right? You may understand the protagonist better by the end,
but there is no change. It would be too difficult to write a series if the
detective had to change with each story. So your basic detective is a stereotype
with a few eccentricities to distinguish him from every other detective. Not much
characterization there.

Death to every sales letter, being boring tolls the end of your reader's short
attention span. Once you've lost him or her, forget about all the good bits you
want them to know. While there's nothing wrong with a template email or sales
letter from which to start, take what you have and spice it up. Personalize it.
Make it speak directly to your reader. Give them a reason to keep reading. If
you're writing from one individual to another, a conversational tone is great. But
if you're writing B2B sales letters or emails, you want a more professional tone.
And no kitschy abbreviations like you do with text messages. Idk, LOL maybe? Okay,
you might not go that far, but being too casual and familiar when writing from one
business to another won't fly.

As we all know though, bad things do happen to good people. Today's organizations
face the real risk of being attacked and having data held hostage. In a survey
Ponemon Institute recently published , 61% of respondents reported falling victim
to a cyberattack. 54% of those suffered a breach of customer and/or employee data
as a result. If that wasn't enough, respondents saw a staggering 26x increase in
ransomware attacks. 52% of cybercrimes reported were attributed to ransomware,
compared to just 2% the previous year.

Bucky Badjer has a great tutorial on how to combine those two things to build the
coolest thermometer you've ever seen. The design features a beautiful wood
enclosure, metal mesh for a high-end finish and cooling, and, of course, Nixie
tubes. There are three numeric Nixie tubes in the build, which display the
temperature down to tenths of a degree. To create your own, you'll only need a
handful of components. First is an Adruino Uno , which provides all of the logic.
Then a temperature sensor, and a handful of common components like switches and
transformers are used to bridge the Arduino with the Nixie tubes. Finally, you'll
need three IN-1 numeric Nixie tubes, along with a SN74141 Nixie tube driver chip.

Messenger is (very) slowly becoming a driving force as a social media platform.


Facebook is doing all the right things, it just needs to catch a little more fire
with the introduction of Messenger Day and all the new Messenger additions. In the
latest string of updates comes the upgrade to Instant Games.

When you start to lose interest things in the activities you thought you loved, you
start to lose interest in life altogether. After all, if I can't even do the things
I like, how will I do all the other things in life I don't? Or more like, why
should I? If all of this is just an endurance test, why endure it at all? To what
end?

Incredible Things is one of the most interesting websites to look for when you are
more attentive in learning wacky products and creative ideas. Here, you can find
things that will blow you away in all kinds of diverse categories such as home,
food, fashion pets and many more obscure ones like NSFW and WTF. If you are looking
for interesting news sites t clear your boredom then Funny or Die is the best
website. It is entirely devoted to presenting funny sketches from comedians, users,
and personalities. It is known that the website is renowned for offering few of the
amusing and special video content.

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