I first heard wanker while watching Prisoner Cell Block H back in 81 or 82. Its one of those words where you feel a kinship as soon as you see it.
Go Patrick!
I've had some bad experiences with the dentist but now I have a lovely woman who came highly recommended. Still, I'm so scarred from my previous experiences that I wish I could start the nitrous oxide before I leave the house. I tend to sit in the waiting room and snivel even though she's been very gentle with me. Luckily she's also quite understanding,
Patrick - when is the appointment? We can all help you remember to keep it.
Teresa - my dentist said she was going to send you a thank you note on behalf of the American Dental Association.
I've got an appointment at 1:30 for a crown. I've had an iffy tooth for about a year and it abscessed a few weeks ago, apparently setting my face on fire. It started on a Friday evening and was bad enough that I was happy when the nerve died over the weekend.
I heartily endorse making your appointment before you reach that stage.
I liked them also, Xopher and I'd read on if offered the opportunity.
Whoop! It seems like I've been waiting for The Sarah Connor Chronicles for years. I hope this means Josh Friedman will have more time for blogging. Love him.
Mount Everest averages one death per ten successful ascents.
They're saying it's safer than it used to be? In the early 90's I read that you only had a one in eight chance of getting through the Khumbu ice falls. I actually had an Everest video game back in the day and my son's character got squashed by a serac 20 times in a row, at which point he gave up in disgust...
My spirits have been particularly low these last few weeks. I believe that the second point may help as I like my shower-bath to be quite hot.
Thank you TNH for the excellent advice.
I've invested close to a quarter of a decade in one.
Did you mean to say decade? 2 years and three months is not much of an investment in a career that you say is fading. Maybe some other line of work would be in order?
What are you doing to develop your paper's online presence?
Six years my company told my boss that nobody (excluding pr0n) made money with online newspapers and magazines but instead of taking that to heart he hired me and we're now sending out twelve newsletters a week, running a discussion board, and supporting online versions of four of our newspapers and magazines and we're making in the seven figures in ad revenue, including classifieds.
I came to publishing after twelve years in medical claims, seven and a half paying them for a fringe benefits fund and the rest working for a doctor's office and a physical therapy office. I took a good look around and decided I did not want to keep having to fill out treatment plans that allowed three visits to a man who fell six stories down an elevator shaft and quit and started a new career. I'm not a stranger to having to start over because your job changed and became something very different.
The photos from Mike's memorial are wonderful. Thanks for sharing them.
Bonus - now I know the name of someone I met at the DC Fragile Things reading.
Bruce - I do! My boss heard about it on NPR, dug up the story and sent me the link, saying it was the kind of thing I would enjoy and he was right as usual. If you go to the NPR site you can hear some of the music and read an excerpt from the book.
As my boss pointed out, even the author photo is a work of art.
Linkmeister - thanks so much, that looks like a terrific event. I will pass the message along to James.
W00t! Thank you very much.
Re raccoons - the Real Live Preacher had quite a time when he was invaded by them. His account is quite funny, but probably not so much when you're faced with a similar problem. The first entry is here.
Xopher - I really like your comment about BSG at 184. Would you mind if I run it as my one sentence review for tomorrow's weekly column?
Harry - what do you use now?
I used Word for my first 2 scripts then switched to Movie Magic for the next 3. I downloaded Celtx recently but haven't really explored it.
My Movie Magic CD broke when I moved a couple of years ago at the same time I switched computers so I have a bunch of work in a format I can't open. That's why I want to try Celtx, it's open source.
If you want the same effect as Ray's suggestion at 16, but don't want to mess with copying and pasting, you can just save your document as text only.
Our NYC office has mostly macs, I have a PC and I get some strange formatting stuff from the reporters in NYC like little tiny 1s or 2s and 3s instead of apostrophes and quotes. I used to do a find and replace to fix them but other junk showed up all the time so now I save all files as plain text on my desktop then format them from there.
That's a great idea. I don't travel well but will be at Capclave as it's local for us. I would love it if we could do something there.
@12 Avram,
Josh Friedman (LOVE HIM!) started the SoaP buzz with his hilarious and wonderful post published on 8/17/2005. Josh was asked to do some script doctoring on the original script but took a pass when the studio was insisting they wanted to call the film something insipid.
While I agree that the movie did considerably better than the studio expected when they put the thing together, I can't agree that it was crap. It was lots and lots of fun and I said so in my weekly entertainment column.
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