My back hurts but I have so much pizza
I helped a friend move this weekend, which is one of those social rituals that has remained oddly unchanged throughout my lifetime. So much of what we once considered the building blocks of society have been paywalled and offshored and app-ified, and yet the most effective way to get your shit from one address to another still involves wrangling a group of friends and colleagues with the promise of free pizza.
On a related note: if you make the mistake of referring to Papa John's Pizza as "Daddy John's" in mixed company, this is a door you can never again close and the delivery guy will be very confused that multiple people are now calling him "Daddy."
Summer/Winter Sale
Smashwords' Summer/Winter Sale has come around yet again, and I've got a few books participating:
- "Jay Moriarty Violates the Official Secrets Act" is available for free (regular price $0.99 USD)
- "Sebastian Moran Gets Mauled by a Tiger" and "Jay Moriarty Ruins Everybody's Childhood" are on sale for $0.99 USD (regular price $1.99 USD)
- Endling: 600 Years from Home is on sale for $0.99 USD (regular price $3.99 USD)
You can find these and my other books on Smashwords here, and sale prices are valid through to July 31.
Preorder: "Jay Moriarty Has Seen You Naked"
Preorders for "Jay Moriarty Has Seen You Naked," the fourth story in my Casefile of Jay Moriarty series, are still open!
You can preorder the book here. Or, if you're one of my Early Access supporters on Ko-fi, you can download the book for free, right now. And if you'd like an advance review copy of the book, you can get one on Booksprout.
"Jay Moriarty Has Seen You Naked" releases next week on July 9.
This Week's Links
julie_never_streams
My friend Julie plays piano and does livestreams every Tuesday and Friday where she performs arrangements of video game music. A very nice thing to have playing in the background as you go about your day.
My Dinner With Andreessen
Recently, I read about venture capitalist Marc Andreessen putting his 12,000-square-foot mansion in Atherton, California, which has seven fireplaces, up for sale for $33.75 million. ... Upon reading this, I realized it was time to stop procrastinating and tell you all a story I’ve been meaning to set down for a long time now about the time I visited that house (the cheap $33.75 million one, I mean). Strictly on a need-to-know basis. Because you really need to know how deeply twisted some of these plutocrats who run our society truly are.
Sesh Gremlin Q | Kill James Bond Highlight
A clip from the podcast Kill James Bond. Both the clip and the podcast are extremely good.
In the tech industry, the difference between producers and quality control is this: given a £100 pizza budget and a 50% off coupon, the producer will say, "Oh good, I only need to spend £50," whereas QC will say, "Oh good, we can order £200 worth of pizza."
Internalizing this revelation will explain a lot of things about tech for you.
-K
