James @ 14 - fine here now, ta muchly.
Sarah S and Tracie - can you guys come up for the Fringe? You're funnier than a lot of the 'comedians' I've seen.
I'm in Firefox (2.0.0.7) and the screenshots are now drooping into the first three comments, which are scrunching over to the sides of their boxes so as to avoid being squashed.
I have to say that while I understand the logic of properly citing your own work, it does seem odd to be accused of plagiarizing yourself. Why not quote your own master's thesis just for the glee of seeing your name in the bibliography?
Abi @ 198: word. An incomprehensible word, at that. When John Smeaton, hero of the Glasgow Airport bombing, was making media statements, even my central-Scotland-born-and-bred-and-currently-works-in-a-less-than-salacious-area-of-the-Weej partner was praying for subtitles.
*plugs ears as it sounds like an air raid siren's going off in here*
Congrats!
I haven't been involved with SFWA for over a decade now. Can someone please give me some context and/or background for what they're doing? I mean, is this part of a trend (implied by 'latest stunt'), or an aberration?
TNH @ 35:
what you sometimes see in lit studies
Well, yes, because you can't see anything in an unlit study....
*rimshot*
Dave @ 28 - which reminds me, anything by David Irving. IIRC, even Wikipedia discounts him as a source....
My thesis? :)
As for bad books - I would personally avoid anything that refers to the author of Pride and Prejudice as 'Miss Austen' because that sets my teeth on edge, though I realize that's throwing out many Grand Old Men Of Literary Criticism with the bathwater.
Julia @33 - re: Jinx, I'm quoting an old SNL sketch with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mary Gross; this and many other details can, of course, be found in the Wikipedia entry.
(Which reminds me of the time I watched 'The Sixth Sense' in Bucharest, and was the only person in the theater who laughed at the 'it was much better than Cats' line. SNL, how you have warped me.)
Jinx! Buy me a Coke!
The company's COO has responded, in order to 'set the record straight'. Yup. It includes paragraphs like:
To give you some context, we currently have 1,200 suppliers to our business and have sent letters to 47 of those whom we hope to hold discussions with over the coming weeks. The payments we have requested from those suppliers represent a gap payment for profits that were lost or costs that were incurred as a result of our commercial relationship with those particular suppliers.
That second sentence reminds me the Bad Example in a 'how to write clearly' guide.
According to an edit made on a comment in that SMH thread:
A small point of correction: Tower Books is the distributor of the Miles Franklin winner, Carpentaria by Alexis Wright (ie the company that ships it out to bookshops around the country). The publisher is Giramondo, a small Sydney press owned by Ivor Indyk and Evelyn Juers and run from the University of Western Sydney. They publish a very small number of books but interesting, ambitious, often uncommercial and yet a high proportion of award-winners.
Man, I've never been to Australia, but this makes me want to go just so I can not buy books from A&R. Thankfully the high cost of airfare makes me just give them a virtual raspberry.
Rob @33 - My memories of TCR are of electronics shops occasionally interspersed with an upscale coffee and/or sandwich shop. And this page isn't showing much in the way of greasy spoons.
Hmm, or maybe not.
"So the part of his soul that was in me..."
Dumbledore nodded still more enthusiastically, urging Harry onwards, a broad smile of encouragement on his face. [man, it's lines like this that keep fandom strong]
"...has it gone?"
"Oh, yes!" said Dumbledore. "Yes, he destroyed it. Your soul is whole, and completely your own, Harry."
"But then..."
Harry glanced over his shoulder, to where the small, maimed creature trembled under the chair.
"What is that, Professor?"
"Something that is beyond either of our help," said Dumbledore.
Guess it depends on whether 'destroyed' means 'blasted into smithereens' or 'here in limbo'. The other Horcruxes screamed upon being destroyed, but they were the intentionally-made ones.
Hmmm, maybe it's the bit of Voldemort's soul that got blasted out? Now Harry's free of it?
Found it:
Chapter 6:
"I've also modified my parents' memories so that they're convinced they're really called Wendell and Monica Wilkins blah blah Australia blah emotion."
Chapter 9:
"You're the boss," said Ron, sounding profoundly relieved. "But I've never done a Memory Charm." // "Nor have I," said Hermione, "but I know the theory."
I'm still scratching my head over the fact that the three kids go to Tottenham Court Road and find an all-hours greasy spoon complete with gum-cracking waitress.
And then they order cappuchino. Instead of, say, grits.
Also, someone said that after Hermione wipes her parents' memories with a Memory Charm and exiles them, she says a few chapters later that she's never done a Memory Charm. Can anyone verify?
Well, so Shrub has enough smarts to get his colon checked out. That's a point chalked up in the 'not entirely stupid' column.
There are a lot of things I will be grateful for throughout my life, but the fact that my dad gets regular colonoscopies is way up there on that list, because if he hadn't bothered, I'd be lighting a yahrzeit candle for him.
I consider myself to be pretty good about separating American and British English (I live in the UK now, 5.5 years and counting, and I usually remember to call my mom on her cell but phone my boyfriend on his mobile), but I was amazed when I spell-checked thesis chapters and found just how many American spellings crept in when I wasn't consciously thinking about them. I don't know what the the uni's [nods to dcb @70] official position was, but I figured that as I was getting a degree at a British university, I ought to be spelling it in British. (And I made sure to use 'outwith' at least once - a brilliant Scottish word that I can't believe hasn't been taken up elsewhere, as it fits a small language gap so nicely.)
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