Without Notice

Sometimes the Reaper comes without notice.

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In the small-town LeMelle, Deep South, the day begins as usual for Verna–a chatty, small-time waitress at Chez Antoine. On the outside, she’s as cheerful as one can get, but hidden behind the facade lies a scarred soul, tormented by a terrible secret.

So when the doorbell jangles and a charming stranger crosses the diner’s threshold, Verna excitedly welcomes him, until it becomes clear that he knows more than he should.

Soon she realizes that her ordinary day is about to turn into a nightmare and she will have to gamble with her soul…

Fix Windows 10 Emoji Bug

Windows 10 comes with Emoji Panel which you can use to directly insert emojis into any document, chat, text field, etc. To do that you can use one of the following shortcuts: Windows key + . (WIN + period) OR Windows key + ; (WIN + semicolon)


So, What’s the Issue

The problem is, that sometimes, the keyboard combination doesn’t work, due to a bug in the operating system.

For this article, I assume you already have Scrivener installed. If not, go grab it here and follow the instructions to install it. You’ll need the Windows version for this tutorial.

Side Note: It if you don’t want to commit yet, don’t worry, Scrivener offers a trial version that gives you thirty days to experiment and see if it is for you.

Side Note 2: If you experience any problems during that process, let me know in the comments, and I’ll try to help. I’ll write a full post about the installation process, somewhere in the future.

OK, enough with the side notes. 🙂

The other day I read an article about a child praying to Alexa, and that got me thinking…

The Old Gods Are Dead

The Old Gods Are Dead — That’s the new creed of the modern world.

For years the society fought to eliminate the influence of the faith in our lives. To become secular. To judge and be judged on a merit base, and yet, we only succeeded to exchange one god for another.

On Friendship

When a tempest comes, it cleanses all that is dead. Including friendships.
Friends. Friends don’t flee with the first gust of frozen rain.

They stick with you, sharing body heat, and pain, and sorrow, and tears.

And when the blizzard finally hits, they hold you tight for all their life is worth. Because your demise will be theirs as well, as a life without you won’t be life at all.

Those are the friends you must keep close.

The rest is chaff.

Love & The Second Law of Thermodynamics

If the Universe is finite, and the science affirms it is, that means it’s an isolated system. The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of such systems tends not to decrease, so entropy must be the law of the Universe, but…

But, if you go out and look at the beauty of this world, the wonders of the nature—big and small; the secrets of the ocean’s depths—hidden beneath its turquoise swells; the vastness of the heavens with their trillions of stars shining down upon you, and the Moon, and the Sun with its crown of fire; and look beyond all that to your fellow human, and strive to reveal the goodness in his soul, you will surely notice that there is more to the Universe than Entropy and Void.

If you are a believer—it’s easy. You are already there.

But if you are not, well, it should not be hard for you too.

As a man of science, you know we live one life, and one life only. And even if we are lucky, and blow a hundred candles, it’s still nothing compared to the Universe’s longevity.