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BostonRocks Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post.

Hi Eugene...Been a while since I have visited to transcribe and was reviewing some of the past transcriptions and saw one of yours and when I finally came across the 3rd chapter I was SUPER EXCITED! Good God you have the gift of sucking me right in with your writing! Loving Heat and the crew! CHAPTER 4 IS A MUST!

Posted on Soul Of Hatred (Chp. 3) by Eugene Weems Soul Of Hatred (Chp. 3)
DiannaWentworthHauf Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Hi John, This is Dianna Wentworth Hauf - I found some writings of yours here on betweenthebars. It would be nice to contact you, but I'm not sure how to do that. Perhaps this will get through to you.
Blessings to you & yours,
Dianna

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Cavak Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Like you already said, hashtags are things that make exact words stick out in social media search engines. If you want a layman's explanation, you can think of a hashtag (#followedbywhatever) as a type of label. But that wouldn't be right to leave it just as that, so here we go.

They were around for a while on online forums, but they exploded on Twitter about 2008 or so. It's since been something that appears on social media beyond Twitter. It became pretty popular for people to adopt ever since online groups and commercial marketing started using them to promote something. As such, hashtags are popularly linked to a particular cause or idea so they can bundle multiple entries into one spot. Sharing public reactions and opinions online became wildly popular since the MySpace days.

Because of the way how computer coding works, hashtags don't accept spaces between words. So if you wanted a hashtag like "Halloween 2015", you'd have to write it like #Halloween2015.

There's no real distinction between who "owns" a hashtag though. For instance, #AshisBack was once used to refer to Bruce Campbell playing Ash Williams again for a new Evil Dead TV series. But this has since been used by other actors or teenagers completely unrelated to the TV series. So if you were to look up this hashtag now, you'd get a random mix of things that may or may not be the exact thing you're looking for. Weird, huh?

You can also vocally say something like, "Hashtag Mondays Suck", as a type of sarcastic remark or joke. Though I usually hear young people—we're talking toddlers, teenagers, or early twenties—using them with any regularity in their everyday conversations. So I ask you to please not do this since it could be considered irritating to some. Just be aware that it's something that exists.

Between the Bars doesn't have a search engine built into the site itself so I don't think they will work here. It does have a social media Share function, but that's a different beast altogether. Maybe if you keep your hashtags consistent and think of something catchy to label them as, they might appear in Google or some other search engines. Who knows what will happen?

Anyway, hope this brightens your day a little and you have a happy Halloween.

Posted on Hashtag #Huh? by Dymitri Haraszewski Hashtag #Huh?
TrishTurner98 Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Hi John,
How are you? I have so many questions. I apologize for not being more frequent in writing to you but my life is going very well and I wish the same for you. I have always wondered about you and what traits I acquired from you. Now that I am aware of the fact that you know I exist the hole in my heart has shrunk a bit but is still there nonetheless. What color are your eyes?

Hope to hear from you soon!

Your daughter,

Trish

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Bellababy88 Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
And yes dad i forgive u for everything u said nor made me feel

Bellababy88 Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Idk how much stamps cost either i only have 2 something dollars left

Bellababy88 Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
Dad my bday in four days but it s nun without u Nd btw dad my ex fiancee it s time u know and fuck the world if they see what i say my ex fiance cheated on me and gave me genital herpes and oral herpes i got them both we were gonna get married and then he cheated and i m stuck with it that s why i be so suicidal and wanting to give up on life sometimes

Bellababy88 Posted 9 years, 4 months ago.   Favorite
My life is driving me insane it s like there s nun left of me ..

Jamie Posted 9 years, 5 months ago.   Favorite
Hello James,

Did you draw a fly on the letter? It looks cool! Kind of creepy, but cool.

Sounds really dangerous, to be honest... Do the tattoos that the inmates get often get infected?
Very understandable that you don't do them! But I think it must be scary when they want you to do them and you decline, too, isn't it?
"Look I can make it look like a weasel winding a clock" <- That made me laugh.:D

I don't really know what to do in my future. First I have to finish 3 years of school. After that... I'll probably go to University. But I don't know what to study yet. Maybe psychology.

I don't really know what to reply to your second page. It's just sad when people ´choose to commit suicide. I mean, your body does everything it can to keep you alive, but this world makes you feel like there's no other way. I even understand why people would want to commit suicide. I've been there. But I would never be able to pull it off.

Why did you write "Jim" at the end of your letter? Nickname?

Take care,
Jamie

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Jamie Posted 9 years, 5 months ago.   Favorite
Hello Eric,
Sorry for the confusion, I'll always write the date down from now! It's the 12. October.
And with that, sorry for taking so long to answer! :(
Ew, so much math, haha. You were absolutely correct when you said that I don't like math.
I'm glad I only got 77.5% wrong...........x)
I currently have holidays, but I could print your mazes in school! Hope I won't forget that. I'd really like to see the hidden drawings. :(
What are Snowbirds and Retirees? It was interesting to read that stuff about Florida. I didn't know that it was so mixed, culturewise.
I found the comments/posts.Don't really know what I should say about it. I guess I'll just keep quiet. :3
I'm glad you can listen to music. I feel like music helps with almost everything.

Oh no, don't let yourself go! Go keep up with the times. :P Funny that a 55 year old knows all of the groups.
I like Nirvana, too.

Yeah, we have lots of trains and buses that drive almost everywhere, so having no car isn't that big of a hurdle. And I think most 16/17 year olds shouldn't have the responsibality that comes with a car... I feel like there would be a lot more crashes.

German and English are actually the only languages that I know well enough to communicate with them. x) I'm also learning French, but I hate it.

You pronounce it like Vee-gan? -gan as in Megan. I don't know about the phonetics you sent me, sorry!
I know I know, it's hard to resist to joke about it. Sometimes there are funny jokes. But most of the time they're just ignorant and provocating, just to piss the vegans off. And it's hard not to get pissed when someone takes something that you care deeply about lightly, you feel me?

I'm glad you have someone who helps you out even when you're in prison.:)

Take care!
Jamie

Posted on What's In A Name? (The Epilogue) by Eric Wilkes What's In A Name? (The Epilogue)
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