Anyway, today, listening to Gaiman, I learnt that he had had a lisp. He says he used to take elocution lessons when he was a boy (and remembers a lovely line from his teacher, who said to him "Neil, dear, before you can be eccentric, you need to know where the circle is"). Which reminded me of Stephen King's novella If It Bleeds, where the outworldly antagonist also used to have a lisp, but then corrected it and, as an overcompensation, developed a slight delay before the s's.
Anyway, today, listening to Gaiman, I learnt that he had had a lisp. He says he used to take elocution lessons when he was a boy (and remembers a lovely line from his teacher, who said to him "Neil, dear, before you can be eccentric, you need to know where the circle is"). Which reminded me of Stephen King's novella If It Bleeds, where the outworldly antagonist also used to have a lisp, but then corrected it and, as an overcompensation, developed a slight delay before the s's.
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Tweeted and retweeted by developers. Dunno. Been working for me. Can't speak to excellence, but certainly lots of stimulating humiliation:
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Don't know if this is real or not, but if it is, it's really strange that Canadian bureaucrats should be specifically instructed not to use the…
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This was a good talk. Interesting to see that SvelteKit is taking the same direction as Remix.run, by using html forms to submit data without the…
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