Online Annoyances (4 Viewers)

[The_Doc_Man]

There's no telling what people will do with Access when having fun.

I'm an amateur writer, specializing in adventure-oriented fantasy or sci-fi. My main fantasy series involves a world with four moons at different distances and thus different orbital periods. So, for shiggles I set up code to simulate the orbits of each of the moons to derive approximate rise/fall times, complete with special cases of having two or more moons full at the same time. When I did the math using DOUBLE for everything orbit-related, I realized two interesting things - 1, that a four-moons-full night would only happen once every 3300 years on my fantasy world, and 2, one such night was going to happen in the middle of my 3rd story in the series. So OF COURSE that had be a major plot-point.

I am also working on a "scene" builder where I have Access "read" the chapters of the novel and as I pass through each paragraph in each chapter, I can mark the point of a "new scene" so that if I ever needed to write a screenplay, I have it all defined and delimited. It's amazing to think of what some people do for fun.

 

[DickyP]

After almost thirty years of programming for a living and enjoying nearly all of it, I kept going with Access to 'keep-my-hand-in'.

My Access lottery db I started when running a syndicate at work back in the days of Access 2 and it has been, changing, expanding (but not necessarily improving) ever since.

 

[Mark_]

There's no telling what people will do with Access when having fun.

I'm an amateur writer, specializing in adventure-oriented fantasy or sci-fi. My main fantasy series involves a world with four moons at different distances and thus different orbital periods. So, for shiggles I set up code to simulate the orbits of each of the moons to derive approximate rise/fall times, complete with special cases of having two or more moons full at the same time. When I did the math using DOUBLE for everything orbit-related, I realized two interesting things - 1, that a four-moons-full night would only happen once every 3300 years on my fantasy world, and 2, one such night was going to happen in the middle of my 3rd story in the series. So OF COURSE that had be a major plot-point.

I am also working on a "scene" builder where I have Access "read" the chapters of the novel and as I pass through each paragraph in each chapter, I can mark the point of a "new scene" so that if I ever needed to write a screenplay, I have it all defined and delimited. It's amazing to think of what some people do for fun.

For fun, try working out "Sunrise" on a moon tidally locked to a hot Jupiter. Depending on which side of the moon you are on, you get one or TWO per rotation around the main planet!

 

[Isaac]

Best of all reasons - FUN. I enjoy keeping records.

You are what we would call a true Nerd.
And that is NOT an insult, it's a borderline compliment