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I recently posted this, but since it is #TerryPratchett Day, I'm reposting.

If my text editor app @novelwriter crashes (Offler forbid), it will use one of the following Discworld error messages as the window title of the error dialog. 😁 🧙‍♀️

Code comment: "Pick a random window title from a set of error messages by Hex the computer, Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork, Discworld and other Discworld references" Options: +++ Out of Cheese Error +++, +++ Divide by Cucumber Error +++, +++ Please Reinstall Universe and Reboot +++, +++ Error At Address 14, Treacle Mine Road +++, +++ Abomination Unto Nuggan Error +++, +++ Anoia Error: Cutlery Stuck in Drawer +++
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Happy birthday Sir Terry Pratchett. The more the world gets more cruel and unfair, the more I miss him.

Plus the Vimes boots theory remains the greatest piece of economics ever written.

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A pair of tattered boots and the Vimes boots theory: "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet."
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Apparently 28th April is Terry Pratchett Day, being his birthday an' all.

A person I never met, yet I still mourn his passing, for his works brought joy and comfort to myself and millions of others. Not to mention, as a teenager, a foundational education in society, politics, justice, and puns.

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A photograph of Sir Terry Pratchett
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