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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 26
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      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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 26
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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 4. Write a dictionary

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 26
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      These are all useless things to do, so I’ll need a mansion first

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 26
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      No takers for my clocks huh?

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    5. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 Oct 27
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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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 27
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      Unless... I design them to rapidly biodegrade

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    7. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 Oct 27
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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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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 27
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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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    9. Lorah‏ @seekingyaga Oct 27
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 27
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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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        2. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 Oct 27
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          My hazy childhood recollections second this. Cumberbatch was fun, but Brett is Holmes in my head.

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        3. Lorah‏ @seekingyaga Oct 27
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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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