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Date Posted: Sun, June 09 2024, 20:45:30
Author: CindyG
Subject: QOTD for Monday, June 10, 2024

The following quote is from The Outlandish Companion by Diana Gabaldon, “Prologue.” Copyright ©️ 1999, 2015 by Diana Gabaldon, all rights reserved.

“At the time when my desire to write novels resurfaced, though, I was working at Arizona State University, writing Fortran programs to analyze the contents of bird gizzards. . . .
At the conclusion of eighteen months of labor—which resulted in a gigantic eight-hundred-page coauthored monograph on the dietary habits of the birds of the Colorado River Valley—I said to myself, You know, there are probably only five other people in the entire world who care about bird gizzards. Still, if they knew about these programs I’ve written, it would save each one of those five people eighteen months of effort. That’s about seven and a half years of wasted work. Why is there no way for me to find those five people and share these programs with them?
The net result of this rhetorical question was a scholarly journal called Science Software, which I founded, edited, and wrote most of for several years. A secondary result was that when my husband quit his job to start his own business and we needed more money, I was in a position to seek freelance writing work with the computer press.”

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[> Always a good story of serendipity -- kgp, Mon, June 10 2024, 14:53:11

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[> [> That’s a great word to use for Diana’s story. It is such a winding journey. Thanks for doing QOTD, Cindy. I love reading about Diana’s life. -- Kathy in PA, Mon, June 10 2024, 17:15:00

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