When I’ve got my head around the stuff these bar chart thingies are supposed to be telling me, I’ll ‘ave a look at There’s got t’ be a ‘Dummies’’ or ‘Idiots Guide’’ out there somewhere
Sure, shaping nodes for gender and sizing them for amount of dialogue is just okay. The part I thought was nifty was that they had analyzed the scripts in such a way as to be able to draw connecting lines between characters who were in dialogue with each other. Come on, that’s just neat. (And they used it as a factor in their algorithm for determining the centrality of a character – not to mention using it to make the spiffy interactive 3D “dialogue molecules”.)
It is a fascinating sort of gizmo. Couldn’t resist an urge to ask for a diagram of The Fisher King, and for as much as I could figure it out — not a terribly lot — it was good. But still…
You do realize, don’t you, that setting this sort of thing free on the forum is liable to provoke several requests from ostensibly sane persons that this feature be incorporated into Scrivener?
And Vic, perhaps you can help me with this one. For a recent birthday, one of my sons presented a bottle of 12-year old Red Breast. My dilemma is this. Am I justified in continuing to pour the Jameson Black Barrel for guests, or must I share with them the RB?
To answer Jaysen first: no guest warrants sharing the likes of the two Holy Amber Distillations Jameson&RB with!
The solution to Phil’s dilemma is a no-brainer. It require a modest initial investment of about $40 on a couple of these,
and a bottle of paint stripper. Split the Bells paint stripper between the two crystal decanters, and when a whisky/whiskey connoisseur invades your space, give them a choice of Jameson (Bells ) from that decanter, or, a glass of RB (Bells ) from t’other decanter, with the accompanying caveat, that your palate must be jaundiced, because you can’t tell the difference twixt one or t’other, and that they both taste like paint stripper to you. Best to have couple of bottles of Aldi’s cheap Australian wine to hand, as an alternative to the paint stripper for the guest.
Of course, it goes without saying, you must keep the legit Holy Amber Distillations somewhere safe and out of view of prying, covetous eyes.
As usual, mon ami, you have extracted the crucial — one might say the threatened — element from a situation, set it aside in a safe haven, and replaced it with a bland and dispensable alternative. I shall in future dispense the bland alternative and reserve the crucial element to mine own needs and desires. Merci.
Y’re rationale is flawed, Numpt. If he avoided interaction with other lifeforms, including humans, Phil wouldn’t have been presented with the Holy Amber Distillation RB, in the first place, would he?