{"id":28926,"date":"2021-09-10T05:59:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T10:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28926"},"modified":"2021-09-10T05:59:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T10:59:36","slug":"been-there-done-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/10\/been-there-done-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Been There, Done That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, someone of Facebook thinks I am a baseball fan, or that I am so desperate to <em>learn to code<\/em> that I would like to learn Pandas through either fantasy football or baseball.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/learntocodewithbaseball.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, man, I tell <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/commodore-128-as-nature-intended-it\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">the story of the only software product I was paid to write<\/a> (over and over, like an old man with five or ten go-to stories to tell over and over), when I was in high school, I wrote a baseball stat manager in BASIC 2.0 for the Commodore 64:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/c128bsmsplash.jpg\" target=\"_new\"><\/p>\n<p>My high school&#8217;s baseball team manager paid me $50 for something that could save and calculate the team&#8217;s stats.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, in my various dilettante careers, I was most highly paid for poetry.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poetry:  $100 for &#8220;Canny&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B019KYLOKQ\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B019KYLOKQ&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj00-20&#038;linkId=6ebe024506d70b36f159714def7e9f41\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>There Will Be War Volume X<\/em><\/a>.  I think I was supposed to get a share of royalties, too, but I no longer can reach out to my editor to wrench it from the publishing house as he did my flat payment.<\/li>\n<li>Software development: $50 for Baseball Stats Manager v1.0.<\/li>\n<li>Short fiction: $5 for &#8220;Reading Faces&#8221; in <em>Show and Tell<\/em> magazine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You know, I guess I have been paid money for nonfiction, including pieces in <em>Writers Journal<\/em> and <em>History<\/em> magazines as well as perhaps some cash from <em>Artisan Journal<\/em> back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Blogging and self-publishing, though?  <em>Money sinks.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, someone of Facebook thinks I am a baseball fan, or that I am so desperate to learn to code that I would like to learn Pandas through either fantasy football or baseball. C&#8217;mon, man, I tell the story of the only software product I was paid to write (over and over, like an old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertisements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28929,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28926\/revisions\/28929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}