Shady Characters @shadychars
@OrkneyDullard at the wheel. Author of SHADY CHARACTERS, THE BOOK and EMPIRE OF THE SUM (https://t.co/DOZZ1AQx0t). See also https://t.co/uE3zBgPboJ. shadycharacters.co.uk Joined January 2011-
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Sometimes I get in the mood for some non-fiction and @shadychars by @OrkneyDullard is just the thing 😊 and yes, my favourite symbol is the ampersand &❤️
This week on #CVBooksThatChangedLives we have @OrkneyDullard's choice - 'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien and 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville. 👉 bit.ly/3VbgeJI After production costs, all proceeds of #ClearAndVivid go to @AldaCenter.🗣️💙
Tomorrow is PODCAST DAY! @alanalda chats with @rboyle31. She relates the amazing story of how the moon has shaped our history, our evolution, and even our very existence. 👉 bit.ly/3tR21Gs After production costs, all proceeds of Clear+Vivid go to The @AldaCenter. 🗣️💙
A question for linguists, as I wrap up work on FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY (shadycharacters.co.uk/books/face-wit…): what other linguistic phenomena should I be comparing to emoji?
Who knew I shared an editor (@brendancurry) and a publisher (@wwnorton) with a Nobel laureate? I can only assume my own Nobel got lost in the post.
Who knew I shared an editor (@brendancurry) and a publisher (@wwnorton) with a Nobel laureate? I can only assume my own Nobel got lost in the post.
I guested on @alanalda's Clear + Vivid podcast recently, on the subjects of punctuation and counting: …r-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/keith…. What a treat, and what an honour! Have a listen and let me know what you think.
I guested on @alanalda's Clear + Vivid podcast recently, on the subjects of punctuation and counting: …r-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/keith…. What a treat, and what an honour! Have a listen and let me know what you think!
Listen and subscribe to Clear+Vivid with @alanalda. Keith Houston: There’s More to Writing Than Words. (@OrkneyDullard) (@shadychars) …r-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/keith…
Tomorrow is PODCAST DAY! @alanalda chats with author @OrkneyDullard about an aspect of communication we rarely think about - the wild world of punctuation! 👉 bit.ly/3tR21Gs After production costs, all proceeds of Clear+Vivid go to @AldaCenter.🗣️💙 (@shadychars)
Nice for Empire of the Sum to be mentioned in this article by @TimHarford - and intriguing to see Tim highlight the computerised spreadsheet as an analogy for generative AI.
Nice for Empire of the Sum to be mentioned in this article by @TimHarford - and intriguing to see Tim highlight the computerised spreadsheet as an analogy for generative AI.
Happy to be able to publish this article I wrote last year for MacGuffin magazine, issue 13, on the history of the interrobang: shadycharacters.co.uk/2024/01/macguf…. There will be lots that's familiar in there for Shady Characters readers, but some new material too. Enjoy!
And the interview is now live! Listen at bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c….
And the interview is now live! Listen at bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c….
This Saturday, the BBC's @BBCMoreOrLess radio show will be running a chat with host @TimHarford (Tim Harford!) and I on the story of the pocket calculator. It'll be available here after the broadcast: bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…. If you have a listen, let me know what you think!
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My conversation with Alan Alda was so unexpected and fun. I hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed talking. Sen. Arnie Vinick told me he loved my book! Or, depending on your generation, Hawkeye! Play @alda Clear and Vivid wherever you get podcasts! And buy my book 🌕
It's PODCAST DAY! @alanalda chats with @rboyle31. She relates the amazing story of how the moon has shaped our history, our evolution, and even our very existence. 👉 bit.ly/4b83590 After production costs, all proceeds of Clear+Vivid go to The @AldaCenter.
Tomorrow is PODCAST DAY! @alanalda chats with @rboyle31. She relates the amazing story of how the moon has shaped our history, our evolution, and even our very existence. 👉 bit.ly/3tR21Gs After production costs, all proceeds of Clear+Vivid go to The @AldaCenter. 🗣️💙
@shadychars So there must have been some amount of handwritten letter usage of smiley faces already out there that helped pave the way for emoticons in emails and finally emojis in...well, everything. ;) 2/2
@shadychars It's funny, but I remember that in the early 1990s, I was occasionally drawing smiley faces at the ends of sentences in my letters to my parents. I almost never used email at that time (lack of other people with email), so I wasn't doing this from email "emoticon" influence. 1/2
Nearing 80% on How Comics Were Made—with under 70 hours to go! If you love comics and history, back the campaign now so you can get your copy! kickstarter.com/projects/glenn…
Intrepid journalist and historian Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) is putting together an extraordinary book on "How Comics Were Made". Knowing and loving Glenn's work, I highly recommend this tour of the history of comics craft and production! kickstarter.com/projects/glenn…
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Tomorrow is PODCAST DAY! @alanalda chats with author @OrkneyDullard about an aspect of communication we rarely think about - the wild world of punctuation! 👉 bit.ly/3tR21Gs After production costs, all proceeds of Clear+Vivid go to @AldaCenter.🗣️💙 (@shadychars)
Yeah, the Greek term for the > sign used in quotations is “diple”, which just means “double” because it’s two lines. Sometimes they put a dot above and below the >, to mark really important passages, which was called the “diple periestigmene”. cf. @shadychars
> be me > corrupting the youth of Athens
@shadychars Definitely what I have said to him: after writing and publishing this, any work that follows is in its shadow. Would someone devote several years or longer of their life to writing a book relatively similar in scope? Possibly, never.
When the digital spreadsheet was launched in 1979, people had no idea what they were looking at. Then, almost overnight, it took over. What does VisiCalc teach us about Generative AI? on.ft.com/3SRMeRJ
Is that *two* copies of @shadychars book 'Book'?
And yes, I have books ABOUT books, much thumbed through the years when my books were in cardboard boxes. If anyone wants to buy me an original medieval Book of Hours (a facsimile also acceptable) I’ll swap you for one of my three copies of “The Name of the Rose” 😳
Do you know the difference between a hyphen and a hyphen-minus? What about a minus sign and a dash? We examine hyphens and dashes (at least ten varieties of them)—this week at CMOS Shop Talk. #ChicagoStyle #AmEditing #AmWriting cmosshoptalk.com/2024/01/23/hyp…
@shadychars I used to connect calculators as a quirky hobby. Had several older HP and TI calculators which to me resembled numerical brick machine, solid yet elegant in its structure that stored numbers.
@shadychars I think I will. I'm also listening to the audio book of 'The Book', You're vivid writing makes me feel like I'm writing on parchment paper in ancient Egypt. Books on books and letter characters. Helps to unpack the origins of literature. Thank you!
@shadychars Reading Shady Characters now. Great book Hail to the Pilcrow and the Ampersand. One of my favorite reads about the calculator is 'The Chip' by TR Reid discussing how Jack Kilby inventing his calculator. Fascinating. Thank you!
Attention everyone in maths twitter. I cannot BELIEVE that none of us noticed this entire advent calendar last year filled with calculating devices! 😍 Go check it out INMEDIATELY
It's day 2 of the Shady Characters advent calendar! I'm counting down to Christmas by way of a series of beautiful, clever, important, and/or outright odd calculating devices. Today: you know the abacus, but do you know what came before it? shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/12/advent…
#edutwitterBookClub my "no new books" pledge for 2024 is being SORELY tested by learning that this book exists @OrkneyDullard (h/t @99piorg) Listen to a podcast about it here: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/empire…
Empire of the Sum w/ @shadychars + @romanmars 99percentinvisible.org/episode/empire… via @99piorg
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