Alex Cohen: (As an added bonus for Making Light readers especially, it also features a vanity press publisher getting the crap kicked out of him by goons. Hurray!)
Snort. You almost tempted me to read it, but alas not even that happy prospect can overcome my dislike for that kind of narrative structure.
Patrick--thanks for letting me know. It's much appreciated.
People over on Usenet are noting again that Martha Wells' _Element of Fire_ is very hard to find, expensive to purchase when found, and also very very good.
If in your copious free time you have a moment, Patrick, to advise which publisher we should be lobbying to get _Element_ back into print, I would greatly appreciate it.
Katherine who was reading _Angels in America_, if you're still here: what do you think about the play's treatment of Joe, and to a lesser extent Louis?
(Feel free to put big spoiler warnings on it if you think appropriate.)
Cool. Tor throws much better parties than I could. We'll be sorry to miss you, but looking at your schedule I can certainly understand why!
No Boskone, huh?
When will you (institutional) know if Tor is doing a Boskone party? I vowed last Boskone to do a Saturday night party if Tor wasn't, and I guess I should get moving on that.
Nathan: I liked Donaldson's Gap series too, though I haven't dared re-read it for fear that I wouldn't like them now.
(Speaking of hurt/comfort . . . )
Good timing--I just checked the new link colors on my rotten, glare-shielded work monitor and even there they're distinguishable.
I'm currently not reading anything--angsting over my failure to read more of Stephen King's Dark Tower series (more information than you wanted on that). I had been mindlessly re-reading J.D. Robb novels while sick this weekend.
Jason: my county's ballots are online in pdf format (index page).
Melissa: that's very interesting. I wonder how old they get before that is no longer feasible.
Melissa Singer: congratulations to your daughter!
(But I have to ask, what does a third-grade president *do*? I don't think we had class officers until high school, and really if students knew that running for president and winning would get them stuck organizing class reunions for perpetuity . . . well.)
I was #116 at about 9am in Niskayuna (*waves to Mike Jones*). I've never voted before in a presidential election in NY, though, so I don't know if that's good. The workers did say it was a little busier.
PNH, I didn't know about this, but next time I will read up on the WFP and consider voting on their line.
Rivka: yes, the hamsters running washingtonmonthly's DNS server appear to go on strike quite regularly.
Re: GMail: I have more invites than I can shake a stick at just now. People are free to take their requests to this LJ post and leave requests; say you came from here, please.
FYI re: Gmail for Troops: they've only asked for half the invites I gave them a while ago, and I've seen news articles likewise indicating that their supply exceeds demand.
Jon Hansen: Chad found a link to your Tales of the Plush Cthulhu from another site, and it was fabulous.
Also, what Bruce Baugh said.
Jon Hansen: hah, that's exactly how I got sucked into LJ. I didn't have a general-purpose blog before that, though, so you're probably safe.
I didn't find it weird to use my real name as a username, but then I was after being recognizable. Besides, nothing else came to mind; I could never run away to the Border, because I'd get stuck with a horrible use-name by someone else when I couldn't make up one of my own. No, wait, I think once I said I'd use Kade Carrion (after _The Element of Fire_), but I take it back.
Blogs are not LiveJournal and LJ customs, like usernames, can be an uneasy fit. Chad & I both have a few commenters who use LJ names; two specifically come to mind. I think with one, I'd linked to something under the LJ-persona; and with the other, I believe the person came to the blogs via LJ, so it's actually a useful identifier.
If someone is doing all their writing on their LJ, it doesn't surprise me that they might want to put that address in the "web page" field. But the little "do I know you" dance is an odd thing about LJ and I think it's entirely to be expected that people would have varying degrees of patience with it.
(I suppose all of this could apply to pseudonyms in general.)
Somewhere up-thread, Xopher said: But in any case, very few people IME, and in America, say TOLL-keen. They say TOLL-kin, which gives no help at all.
Yes, and even though people who I suspect know better than me say it "keen", my mouth just doesn't want to do that.
If it's really truly correct (preferably from the family itself; there are probably people who'd tell you how to pronounce my name from first principles, which is fine and good but isn't necessarily the way *I* say it, and that's what counts for names--witness the Teresa discussion here a bit ago), I'll try to retrain my tongue. But it's going to be hard.
* * *
Also, I want to say a word in defense of _Freedom and Necessity_, one of my very favorite books. I personally can't speak to its historical authenticity, but I have seen people whose opinions I respect say it was basically right (except for the attitude toward distance and travel). It's not universally reviled, is all.
Hi--we sent you and Teresa e-mail Monday night. If you haven't received it, let me know? Thanks.
(Also posted on T.'s open thread)
| Year | Number of comments posted |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 4 |
| 2004 | 29 |
| 2003 | 27 |
| 2002 | 8 |
Total: 68 comments. View all these comments on a single page.
The most recent 20 comments posted to Electrolite by Kate Nepveu:
Show all comments by Kate Nepveu.