Boo birds and other annoyances while I'm breaking for lunch

[kinzel]

Chuck Thompson called them "the boo birds." He was referring to (baseball) fans who are never happy -- the ones who booed the good players just to boo, and who would dis a man's batting stance -- and if he hit a homeroom would dis his salary, or the way he rounded the bases, or... whatever.

I see Sword of Orion has attracted one or two of the boo birds over at Amazon -- I looked up one of the reviewers and by golly, they live in a hard world. Nothing satisfies them -- the average rating they give is 1.1 out of 5. Boo bird.

Annoyances:

The 4 pack of cinnamon buns. Look close -- each bun is two servings. So why don't they make it an 8 pack? I see -- they want you to eat a whole bun, but they can't offically condone giving you that much sugar/fat at once. Then there's the chicken tenders I'm cooking for lunch. Eight pieces, all about the same size... "Approximately 3.5 servings." The asparagus can holds 2.5 servings.

And the weatherfolks have changed the forecast for Thanksgiving from snow to early snow showers, followed by a rainy day. Blech.

Comments

Boo birds

[(Anonymous)]

You do know they are right in a couple instances. One it did read like a Heinlein juvenile( I do like Heinlein juveniles). Second it was all intro and chase scenes. So all in all I enjoyed reading SoO but it did have a cliffhanger stopping point.

Thomas Monaghan

Re: Boo birds

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it read like a Heinlein juvenile -- as I've mentioned elsewhere, prep for writing Sword of Orion was back-to-back-to-back-to-back reading of an Andre Norton book -- Star Rangers, followed by a Heinlein -- Farmer in The Sky, followed by a Norton -- The Galactic Derelict (IIRC), followed by a Heinlein. Yep -- we were after that feeling.

As for a cliffhanger ending, I demure. We couldn't get the damn cliff in there. Maybe next time.

"Ffffreeeeeeebbbbirrrrrrddddd!" is what I'm hearing.