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ks Shlomi Fish’s Homepage Go to main content Go to the navigation Hide NavBar ⬈ Shlomi Fish’s Homepage About this Site Hi all, and welcome to the personal website of Shlomi Fish . I am an Israeli writer of stories, articles, essays, and presentations and a professional software developer (which I find is a necessary means to the end of writing, blogging and online and offline entertainment). You can explore the site using the navigation bar to the left. Alternatively, you can traverse it page-by-page using the arrows at the top . There’s also a news feed for what is new on the site, which is updated periodically. You can also browse my warez on: https://www.shlomifish.org/Files/ Tiffany (Tiff?) Alvord - this is your brother in effect, Shlomi Fish. The exorcist. Let’s hack the shit out of ${-1}GOD, ${-0.99b34}TheShrew [aka "Tamar Fish"] , and have %%%%%{+()()}JEHUVAH obliterate %{-1.0pre70000000pl6777777777.98763277777777778}\\\\\$NULL#b0.10-0.9+0.99-0.999[*0 (!!)] Here are some of the resources you can find here: Humour You can read many shorter bits I have written, a collection of original aphorisms and quotes, factoids about people and things (Chuck Norris/etc.), and a large collection of quotes by myself and others. If you do not lack the patience for reading longer texts, you can read large-scope humorous stories (novellas) and screenplays , which I have written. Articles and Essays You can read various essays and articles I wrote about politics, software development and software management, popular culture, the Internet, psychology, and ideology. Open Source Software Links to software I wrote, and some resources with links to other software. Knock yourself out! Presentations You can find several technical presentations I have written or maintain here. Some of them may qualify as technical tutorials. Puzzles and Riddles Some pages with Mathematical problems , with Logic puzzles and with other riddles. Computer Art You can find my lame attempts for art which I prepared, in the art section which includes graphic designs, photographs, and one piece of music. Links There are many links on the site, but I also concentrated many of them in one place. Who doesn’t like links? More about me I maintain a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about me, this site, and my interests. I have a bio , a TL;DR-compliant "I’m a rockstar software developer" résumé and one as a writer / entertainer / amateur philosopher . I have a comprehensive contact information page , a page about my Rindolf” nickname , and some old snapshots of this site. Enjoy! I hope you enjoy my web-site. If you do, please link here or share a link on social media, recommend it to your friends, and/or drop me a line . ( I’d also appreciate monetary donations but I blog because it is fun and educational . ) News 01-May-2021: What’s New? The Commercial Fanfiction Initiative - May 2021 The Commercial Fanfiction Initiative The biggest news is the commercial fanfiction initiative , which aims to make the film industry flourish just like open music on youtube/etc. or FOSS in the software world. The scope is somewhat larger, covering accepting screenplays in easier-to-write formats, and being communicative about why a screenplay was rejected. Some people online told me "commercial fanfiction will never happen" and two fellow writers of (gratis, Internet-hosted) fanfiction said it will be "unethical" to try to profit off other writers’ hard work. However, I recall people expressing similar sentiments about open source software and early music file swapping / file sharing / "piracy" and Wikipedia… I often grow older and more foolish, and some people do support the cause. I also wouldn’t call the current situation with many beautiful, competent, and either famous or budding actors and actresses unemployable, a lack of screenplay submissions, franchise fatigue, and film makers and executives increasingly feeling depressed and trapped and general watchers dissatisfaction "ethical". The enemies of commercial fanfic are recent bylaws, and court precedents. Guidelines! And I have a plan forward, which isn’t set in stone, and may require improvisation, and may fail. Spoiler: any of these lawsuits: $MEGA_CORP vs. Emma Watson Films. $MEGA_CORP vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger Films. $MEGA_CORP vs. Joss Whedon Films. (And many more naturally.) Will cause $MEGA_CORP’s stock’s value to plummet. One does not simply say no” to an Alpha Female . Other stuff: Image macros ("captioned images", "memes") page, and a subsection of short true stories , and new quotes and new factoids and a farfetched crossover hypothesis about the origins of consciousness and insanity. See comments and comment on this. 17-Nov-2019: Taylor Swift Factoids; Relicensing Works Offer; New Essays Here are the recent updates for Shlomi Fish’s Homepage . Terminator: Liberation is a new work-in-progress fanfic/crossover screenplay: A self-referential parody of the Terminator franchise , with Emma Watson as herself and as the evil terminator Hanna, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as himself and as the good terminator, that takes place in Tel Aviv during Passover (when Olamot Con takes place). There are new questions and answers in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List : Why does the site looks old? Well, the site’s old fashioned look may be part of its charm, and kinda lets it stands out from every Bootstrap Website ever . That put aside, feel free to submit pull-requests, patches, or CSS fragments if you think they will improve matters. I am offering to relicense all the cultural works I created and placed on my site under CC-by if I get 10 million Euro. There is a new essay titled Putting Cards on the Table (2019-2020) which aims to provide a snapshot of Rindolfism, my personal philosophy: The Israeli military was small and as there was a lot of work to do to properly secure the Israeli civilians it coined the terms Rosh gadol ("big minded") and Rosh qatan ("small minded") to encourage the soldiers to take initiative and try to perform their jobs as well as possible, regardless of the fact they were paid little. This extends to non-military work, government work, and voluntary work or hobbies and endeavours: if you care about something, do it as well as possible and give it enough time as needed. It will get easier and faster in time. For instance, a vendor on a candy store or an icecream parlour, should try to greet the customers, be friendly to them, offer recommendations to them if they ask, accept business cards with their personal web sites or social media presence and visit them, and generally treat every customer like royalty. If you do this, you’ll likely get more returning customers, bigger tips, bigger bonuses and raises, and you may be able to land a better job based on a warm recommendation from your superiors and coworkers. The opposite is just following orders blindly, "I just work here" attitude, which is no different from the Nazis’ Superior orders - "I was only following orders" which leads to laziness, stagnation, vandalism and sadism, just like the German Nazis in World War II, or the Knights Templar in Saladin’s time. There is a new collection of factoids about Taylor Swift as well as new Chuck Norris factoids and new Emma Watson factoids : If Apple ever tried to sue Taylor Swift for trademark violations of Apple Swift, they will spend all their money on litigation, and still lose. This will make many lawyers richer, and the world a better place. Chuck Norris’s roundhouse kicks are licensed under the public domain because no one besides him can duplicate them. Emma Watson played Hermione in the Harry Potter films, but she doesn’t need a wand to kick your ass. "Why I will continue to write my real person fan fiction (fanfic)" is an essay about why real person fiction appears to hurt Hollywood actors and why it cannot hurt singers or YouTubers. "Why Openly Bipolar People Should Not Be Medicated" is a new essay. The site’s pages...