Sentences with phrase «not magic pixie dust»

About a year ago I wrote a post inspired by Thomas R. Bruce «s article «GitHub: It Ain't Magic Pixie Dust.»

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These are the people with whom I feel a connection of the kindred - spirit and bosom - friend type, this doesn't require much commitment because there is magic and pixie dust here.

If I had lucked out and got an agent for my first novel, a vampire romantic suspense, and it had sold to a publisher, and if it had sold only 3,000 copies in the first months, (i.e. being with a publisher wouldn't have led to an increase in sales due to the magic fairy pixie dust I'm told that publishers employ), I would never have published the second or third book in the series and likely would have been dropped by the publisher for publishing a «dud».

It is all rooted in the idea of telling people fantasies, telling them that price does not matter, that there is some magic pixie dust that is going to make it all work out this time.

And yes, you can make the «well, government enabled it» standard argument and say the the solution is to sprinkle magic Libertarian pixie dust and make everyone into Randian supermen, but in the real world where we have billions of people who need to coexist in a functioning society with legacy social structures we need solutions that work, not philosophical wankery.

/ blockquote > See my comment about finding that the sky is blue and attributing it to magic pixie dust: That the sky is blue or that the vast majority of papers (even by critics) affirm the basic message that «the Earth is warming, and humans are playing a role in that warming» are not novel results.