Dustings #132

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It’s my favorite time of year, Haunted Key Season!

That special time of year when a cylindrical object rolls over on your own hand, and you try to convince an adult with a brain in their head that only a ghost could do such a thing.

GLOMM Lodge #5, The Ghost Shrimps, has now been established in Savannah, Georgia.

They join these other four GLOMM lodges:

GLOMM Lodge #1: The Does
West Lafayette, Indiana

GLOMM Lodge #2: The Mastodons
Melbourne, Australia

GLOMM Lodge #3: The Coyotes
Eugene, Oregon

GLOMM Lodge #4: The Otters
Sacramento, California

The GLOMM, which is the largest magic organization on earth (because everyone with an interest in magic whose not a sex offender is automatically a member), is also now the fastest growing magic organization because the official chapters have gone from zero to five in the past year or so. Technically, that’s like infinite growth percentage-wise.

Here’s an email I received from Tomáš H. regarding the Damsel List Force shortcut as discussed in this post.

Thanks for sharing the Damsel List Force shortcut. I like it over the DFB because of it simplicity and use of native features of iOS.

However, I had few issues with the shortcut you shared. So i re-worked it and made improved version. Here is the link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c57623c992d341a795c46d2a2e897db3

There are two main improvements:

- The default list of items does not have to be numbered. The numbers are added during the list creation automatically. That makes editing and adding more items much easier. And there does not have to be empty line at the beginning.

- It works even with first and last number selected

But here is another, imho very interesting followup of the shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0a7852b1fad04728bf0073cfc761839a

Instead of typing the number on the phone, the value is dictated. It tries to parse a number from the dictated text. The phone needs to be in a silent mode otherwise there is a "dictation" sound.

I did not have a chance to try it on real performance yet. But the way how I imagine it would work is that you start the shortcut just before the spectator is going to say the number. Or, alternatively, after the spectator tells the number you start the extension and repeat the number, like you are confirming the number they said.

I think it would require some testing and the shortcut can be further improved - e.g. re-trying the dictation if no number is parsed from the text. Feel free to experiment with the shortcut, if you find the idea interesting.

Big news for the Vanishing Inc. Boys!

First, Andi Gladwin shared this on facebook….

And now I’m hearing that an upcoming cover story on Joshua Jay smashes the record for the number of times Genii has used the word “cunt.”