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I still haven't completed my evaluation of fountain pen inks. As far as fountain pens go, TWSBI seems adequate. Conklin makes my favorite shape, a Flat Top by Sheaffer clone. And where ink is concerned, I have narrowed down my preferences to waterproof features. Fox & Quills, Octopus, Otto Hutt and Rhorer & Klingner have nice iron gall variety inks, but Otto Hutt's black is the darkest and works best for writing out my personal checks when paying bills. The next stage in my evaluation process is the fading criteria.

So much energy goes into this project, I decided to break from it and focus on programming. The tutorial course for CodeMonkeys is very down to earth. Or, it just may be that, over the years, I have accumulated a bit more comprehension of different code types. Nevertheless, I am stuck on lesson 8 and I think I'll be 'ditching' my self teaching courses until I understand the 404 error I am stuck on after following the tutorial for part 8.

This may be a good thing because it would free up my desk clutter to jot down more music sheet notes for my guitar lessons. I can later use those same notes to hang on the window facing south where plenty of sunlight will illuminate the ink I will be using. Having the collection of inks and filling them into different fountain pens helps compartmentalize my notes. It gives them depth. When the inks contrast between one another, it gives my notes distinct flavor. 

Meta-Story Collision

He drafts a screenplay about a writer fighting to get his own script made. As his life begins to mirror the narrative, the line between screenplay and reality blurs, offering a self-examining twist on storytelling.

1. Prompt 1: Logline Variations
   Create three loglines in different genres (hard sci-fi, noir comedy, and historical fantasy) about a struggling writer who shrinks to flea size to pilot a fly’s brain as a time machine, only to be hunted by relentless newspapers.
2. Prompt 2: Opening Sequence
   Write the opening sequence showing the writer’s life—blocked by producers, rejected scripts, and mounting debt—before he discovers the flea-sized cockpit and realizes time travel is possible.
3. Prompt 3: The Pilot Cockpit
   Describe the moment the protagonist shrinks and enters the fly’s brain as if piloting a spacecraft. Use sensory-rich specifics from the fly’s compound eyes to reveal the first “time jump” and its disorienting consequences.
4. Prompt 4: Time Landing Mechanic
   Develop the rule system for how he determines where/when he has landed. What cues (scents, wind patterns, light angles) from the fly’s vision indicate a specific era, city, or event?
5.  Prompt 5: Newspapers as Antagonists
   Make newspapers the nemesis: Machiavellian editors, archival clippings, and headlines that seem to predict or trap him. How do these print voices influence public perception and his own choices?
6. Prompt 6: Protagonist’s Inner Conflict
   Explore how viewing the world through the fly’s eyes changes his empathy, ethics, and art. Does he become more humane, or more cynical about the industry that wants his work?
7. Prompt 7: Supporting Characters
   Introduce a mentor or rival in the production world who either helps the writer calibrate time jumps or sabotages his efforts to advance his career.
8. Prompt 8: Visual Style Challenge
   Write a scene described predominantly through the visual logic of the fly’s perspective: macro details, rapid motion, and kaleidoscopic perspectives that distort time and space.
9. Prompt 9: Midpoint Twist
   Reveal a twist: a past or future era intrudes into the present via the fly’s feed, creating a moral dilemma—alter history to save a deadline or preserve truth for future audiences.
10. Prompt 10: The Ethics Beat
    Center a debate about whether changing real events for a script is acceptable. What are the consequences for people in those events, and how does the writer reconcile personal gain with responsibility?
11. Prompt 11: Genre Remix
    Reimagine the premise as a heist thriller: the writer must “steal” a vanished script from a historical moment by landing in a crucial time and returning with a version that will get produced—without erasing the future.
12. Prompt 12: The Flight Home
    Write the culmination where the writer returns to the present. Does he bring back a masterpiece that finally gets greenlit, or does he realize the true reward is the journey and its lessons?
13. Prompt 13: Ending Alternatives
    Create two endings: one where the writer chooses to stay in a time that finally understands his work, and another where he returns with a revised script that changes the entire arc of his career.
14. Prompt 14: The AI Fly
    Introduce a sentient, aging fly-borne “cockpit AI” that negotiates with the writer. It has its own memories of past eras and pushes the writer to consider whether art should be preserved as it was or reimagined.
15. Prompt 15: Production System Satire
    Write a satirical scene where the writer tries to submit a script produced by his fly-time adventures to a domineering production organization, only to have editors demand “more realism” that only his next jump can provide."

There use to be an option to simultaneously post an entry to a community AND one's own blog, but I can`t find it.

Cross-referenced some blog updates with 111322, the id4 debacle that has everybody podcasting deeply thought out scenarios. Saw this picture and linked the body suits with the conclusion that the reason Kohberger didn't leave any other DNA anywhere else is because he used a bodysuit.