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I hate it when software insists on updating itself when I'm in the middle of a project. Convenient? No.

I also despise APPLE for their sneak attack Safari-dumping. No Macs here, no IPhones, no silly little music boxettes, OK? My ears are clear. Safari is *not* what I want. I have Firefox 3 beta 5 running, I have the newest Opera running. Take a hike, Safari!

So, that said, I did manage to finally get the Saltation chapter up today, about an hour late. Even if it isn't as clean as it ought to be. Some drafts are like that.

Chess tonight. Maybe I'll get to try out my new digital clock. I kinda dislike digital clocks, which are hardly as readable as analog for someone who has been playing chess with *real* clocks for 43 years, but I'll need to have some experience with them if I want to TD these days. Progress.

Soon we'll have more info for you about the Write-a-thon for Clarion West. Wheee....

We see that Sony's online e-book store admits we exist:

http://ebookstore.sony.com/search/ebooks.htm?searchtype=q_author&searchtext=sharon+lee&q=&q_author=sharon+lee&q_title=&q_isbn=&x=23&y=10

A cute thing is to try searching on Steve Miller ...
if you find that page with a photo of a guy with no beard? That ain't me.

Hokay, away we go!

2008-05-12 21:11 (UTC)
by [identity profile] saruby.livejournal.com
I can certainly appreciate problems with Safari and Apple, if they are dumping on you. However, I have a Mac and since IE doesn't support Apple anymore, my default browser is Safari. I can't get Chapter 15 to come up on my Safari browser. Just the promise of a chapter today, which was there this a.m. Does this mean I have to move my bookmarks, etc. over to Firefox? I can do that, but it's kind of a pain. Anyway, just thought you should know that it won't come up on Safari after several tries.

2008-05-12 23:37 (UTC)
by [identity profile] cailleuch.livejournal.com
Not sure which version of Safari you are using but it opens for me. Maybe try again. Also opens in Firefox of course.

Chapter Fifteen

2008-05-13 02:10 (UTC)
by [identity profile] fairportfan.livejournal.com
"This one needs some smoothing"

I'll say. There seems to be a fair amount of something missing between

"...neither has indicated a claim of victim, precedence goes to the senior."

and

"Theo vibrated with anger and tension..."

Re: Chapter Fifteen

2008-05-13 10:50 (UTC)
by [identity profile] kinzel.livejournal.com
Um, no, that part's certain. A blow by blow who struck John multi-viewpoint summation right THERE is not in the works; if a reread tells us otherwise -- or an editor down the road -- we might do something. For us, the writers, doing this now in this draft would slow the pacing for us, as we're writing. It may be that the transition itself needs an extra sentence, another visual cue, a different audible intro, but that, too will depend on a long slow reread where we get to do the balance between senses and balance between intro-tense. For the moment, this is the draft we have.

In general, these kinds of things are discussed in Theo's own community -- http://community.livejournal.com/theo_waitley/

Re: Chapter Fifteen

2008-05-13 12:00 (UTC)
by [identity profile] fairportfan.livejournal.com
Well, i wasn't thinking it necessarily needed a blowbyblow, just that it needs *something* - if only a line of asterisks - to indicate something along the lines of "the curtain is lowered for sixty minutes to denote the passage of one hour".

Re: Chapter Fifteen

2008-05-13 12:16 (UTC)
by [identity profile] kinzel.livejournal.com
Coulda been one -- I had to redo the posting at the very last minute. Asterisks we use, usually, for change of scene location or change of viewpoint character ...

Home > Steve Miller

2008-05-13 13:50 (UTC)
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by [identity profile] muehe.livejournal.com
Wow, are you sure that is not you? It says he has been married to Sharon Lee since 1980.
Maybe you were just having a bad hair day

Re: Home > Steve Miller

2008-05-13 14:05 (UTC)
by [identity profile] kinzel.livejournal.com
This is what happens when databases meet the real world. I was mad at Powells for years because they couldn't manage to get me on as an author of our books after the first three ...

2008-05-13 15:05 (UTC)
by [identity profile] fairportfan.livejournal.com
Speaking of pictures - long-time buddies/collaborators/singersongwriters/Lubbock Mafia wierdos Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore bear a *slight* resemblance to each other n mediocre photos.

Te story goes that one year the program book for the Kerrville Folk Festival got their names swapped under their pics. Or may not have.

Anyway, someone thought it had, and before the program went to press, corrected the apparent error.

Then either Butch or Jimmie Dale saw it, decided it was still wrong, and re-corrected the correction...

Several more "correctios" allegedly followed.

The best version of the story, which must properly be related in an absolutely straight-faced manner, ends with Butch and Jimmie Dale not only uncertain whose pic was who, but even somewhat so as to which f themselves was which.

2008-05-14 22:40 (UTC)
by [identity profile] kinzel.livejournal.com
In someways this is related to the con-clone phenomenon in which someone reports a discussion or event involving you at a convention you know you didn't attend.

You recall the discussion or event, but ... when someone verifies it you need to check your schedule to know that yes, you *were* at a convention that weekend -- on the other side of the country.

Telepathy? Ghosts? Dopplegangers?

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