What the **** is Thoughtcicles?

What the **** is Thoughtcicles?
"I say, good man, look at that... a thought!"

A thoughtcicle is frozen brain juice encoded into bits, zapped through wires, converted to photons, and flung into your eyeballs. They originate in the mind of David Amos.

Who is David Amos?

Just a dude who grew up in the 90s and thought he wanted to be a musician. When that didn't work, he thought he wanted to be a mathematician. And when that didn't work, he became a writer.

What does David Amos look like?

Well, since you must know, here he is after some thirty-nine revolutions around a star located somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy and totally clueless as to how fast he's traveling:

A middle aged white man with a self-inflicted buzz cut with glasses that imply either a love of SciFi novels or the habit of forgetting where he placed his keys, wearing a light blue-and-grey plaid collared shirt and a face that says he's either really glad to meet you or happy to see you go.
The author, standing "still" for a photo.

He's now in his forty-first revolution.

What does David Amos do?

If you ask him, he'll launch into some highfalutin explanation about translating the arcane mumbo jumbo of people who design highly specialized, proprietary gadgets into a slightly less arcane mumbo jumbo for people who use those gadgets. He calls this noble endeavor technical writing. If you ask his family, he sits in a hole and pushes buttons on a keyboard all day. They're still surprised he's convinced someone to pay him for this.

When his employer isn't paying him for mumbo jumbo, he makes mumbo jumbo for free on the internet. This involves more time in a hole pushing buttons on a keyboard. It's a good thing he's fond of holes and finds pleasure in the pushing of buttons.

Doesn't that make his hands hurt?

They used to, a lot. His wife got sick of hearing about it, though, and encouraged him to invest in his well-being, so he bought a fancy ergonomic keyboard:

It's called the ZSA Moonlander and now his wife is sick of hearing about that. To keep it from wiggling while he types on it, he's cleverly put it on a mat featuring a picture of an actual moonlander.

It's through his Moonlander that David's thoughts are exegeted and crystallized into thoughtcicles.

How often do thoughtcicles form?

As often as they please, which may or may not be as much as you like. David doesn't care, and nor should you.

Sometimes fast, sometimes slow.
When the time is right,
they'll come and they'll go.

Do thoughtcicles cost money?

No, but they aren't free, either. It takes David a good deal of effort to make them, and he passes only a small portion of this cost down to you.

I want some thoughtcicles flung into my eyeballs!

Subscribe today and David will send one your way as soon as the next one accretes.