Feel like I should turn hedgehog for act 2, except I can’t pick one big thing to hedgehog-out over. So many choices.
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options I’m considering if I can brainwash myself out of
headspace
1. Write science fiction
2. Build and sell custom gimmicky clocks
3. Become expert at 1 kind of advanced sensor
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These are all useless things to do, so I’ll need a mansion first
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No takers for my clocks huh?
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Problem with that is repeat custom. If you make sci-fi I could see myself buying a copy of each book. I don't see anyone buying more than one artisanal clock, unless they're doing a stage remake of Hook.
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That's the kernel of a good sci-fi plot, but I'm having a hard time imagining a real core market for temporary time. (Which says almost nothing: I didn't predict the market for pet rocks and chia pets either.)
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Interestingly a common kind of early clock was a consumable: timed candles with score marks, or lamps with fixed amounts of oil. Sherlock Holmes of course solved “3 pipe problems”
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Ohhhhhh. I just got a reference made in the series (from 2011ish) where he uses nicotine patches and is wearing 3 (or 2?) because it is a three patch problem. I read some of the stories, not many, would like to read all at some point.
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Heh yeah, that was a ref to the original. I recommend watching the Jeremy Brett tv show from the 80s/early 90s. They're almost better than the stories in some ways, same as David Suchet version of Poirot.
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My hazy childhood recollections second this. Cumberbatch was fun, but Brett is Holmes in my head.
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I love Cumberbatch series, my fav of those I've seen. Dislike the movies w Robert Downey Jr. Insipid. I may have watched some Brett from the 80s but don't remember, will look it up! This thread makes me think of audiobook narrators and how some carry the book and others ruin it.
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