Joe Cecil

Contrast

There's something about contrasts that makes stories more interesting. Last night, I watched the first three or four episodes of the SPY x FAMILY anime dub. The pilot sets up the first of the main characters, Twilight, as this loner super-spy with no family and no ties to

Hogswatch charity

From page 205 of Terry Pratchett's Hogswatch, a scene where a king and his page have just burst into an old man peasant's hut. They're offering the leftovers from the king's feast despite protests: "And I expect you're pathetically

No hard feelings

A passage from Terry Pratchett's Jingo!, page 392, giving some dialog between a Klatchian prince (first) and his general (second): "And why are we going out to meet [the Ankh-Moporkian army commander] before battle commences?" "It's... it's a goodwill gesture, sire.

"Art is a support for life"

There's a passage from Stephen King's On Writing about how art is a support for life. This rhymed with some other things I've been thinking about, and I couldn't find it online. On pages 100 to 101 of my recent-edition print copy:

Places to find the OBD-II scanner port

I just finished looking for the OBD-II scan port (or Data Link Connector?) on a 2006 Chevy Trailblazer and a 2011 Chrysler 300. The OBD-II scan ports were not in obvious places on the dash like in the videos I watched, and the Chrysler's user manual did not

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