I made the CBC!

[james_davis_nicoll]

Passive aggressive sarcasm for the win!

Comments

[kedamono]

"We understand that there is a problem. We didn't foresee that temperature, weather, and the placement of large metal objects near our payment kiosks would cause problems..."

[mikeda]

I mean who would have expected cold weather to be a problem in Ontario...

[petrea_mitchell]

Someone let them know that the new hotness is doing away with fares altogether!

[beamjockey]

With an exciting link to "See James Davis Nicoll's other tweets!"

[beamjockey]

Say, should there be a Hugo for Best Fan Tweeter?

[james_davis_nicoll]

I think that is best fan writer. Not really sure were my various efforts fit into the Hugo categories.

[petrea_mitchell]

In broad strokes, if you got paid for it, then it (or whatever it is part of) is a Related Work. If not, and it's primarily audio or video, it's a Fancast. If neither of the above, it qualifies you for Fan Writer.

(For more nuance, see here.)

[james_davis_nicoll]

Does my patreon make me not eligible for best fan writer?

[petrea_mitchell]

Not necessarily. What matters is if your work appears in a professional publication. See the link in my previous comment for a definition of "professional".

Anybody's Twitter or other social media activity counts for Fan Writer. The situation with your reviews site is murkier. If the Patreon is explicitly a funding source for that site, then see the definition of "professional". If it meets that, then it's a Related Work. If it's not professional, but it fits the definition of a semiprozine, then it's eligible for Best Semiprozine and it qualifies you for Fan Writer. If it's neither professional nor a semiprozine, it's fan writing and it qualifies you for Fan Writer.

It is understood that this is kind of a mess.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Enough of one I am unsure how to do a Hugo post. I think I can justify
Best Fan writer: here, social media and James Nicoll Reviews.
Tor dot com:best Related
Young People: best fanzine?

[dormouse1953]

Some of the automatic ticket machines at my local railway station occasionally develop on odd fault in their touchscreens. Sometimes you have to touch to the right of the tile to get it to register.

Not too much a problem when you're just buying a single ticket to a common destination, but those machines can be used to pick up pre-paid long distance tickets, and then you have to enter a long transaction code on a touchscreen keyboard.

[(Anonymous)]

I found that I had to touch a railway ticket machine screen below the on-screen buttons. I wondered if that was because the touch screen was some distance in front of the display, and I was looking down on the screen from above, rather than face on, or whether they was an alignment error in the system.

[(Anonymous)]

It's an alignment issue either way.

I find ATM buttons beside the screen don't align well with onscreen graphics, which seems like a design / your height / where you stand / nobody tested it thing.

Robert Carnegie