Interesting Links for 04-12-2011

[andrewducker]

• Discussion on "largest mistakes made at work". The Industrial Chemist one is awesome.
  (tags: mistakes work )
• OpenLase: open realtime laser graphics
  (tags: laser diy opensource hardware animation art electronics music projection )

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[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

There's some things you just shouldn't admit to, particularly on the internet. :)

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Hence "throwaway accounts" on Reddit -- made a new anonymous account solely to share those stories. :D

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

One of Rome Girl's specialties as a freelancer is ghostwriting relationship advice guides.

She had this one regular client who would ask for 25 to 50 page relationship guides on a variety of different subjects on a fairly regular basis.

Now, normally this client had asked for very vanilla guides. "20 ways to meet a man," and "30 secrets to a great first date" and "Ways to get him to commit."

But one day she sends a message asking if Rome Girl can write "Filthy Secrets To A Happy Marriage."

Rome Girl is like "Cool" because it would be more interesting than the ones she had been doing for this lady. So she goes full out with descriptions of anal sex, water sports, flogging, face sitting, pegging, dirty talk, rape role play, spanking, bondage, pretty much all of the dirtiest and kinkiest shie she could think of and sends it off the the client.

The next day a very, very embarrassed client sent her a message saying "Um, sorry, there was a typo in my work request for you. I meant to ask for "Fifty Secrets To A Happy Marriage."

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Did the filthy secrets sell elsewhere?

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Actually it worked out OK. Because it was a client fuck up, the client paid for the filthy one (no clue if she ever used it for anything) and then paid Rome Girl to write the fifty one.

[ajr.livejournal.com]

You know, there were things I meant to do today.

But instead I found myself reading through that damn Reddit discussion. You bastard.