Thanks for this, Patrick--I found out last night through Elise's livejournal, but I would have never found the buried lede otherwise.
You're all in my thoughts, Teresa most of all.
We are playing host to a group of our friends, as we have for the past several years. The group has gone through some changes the past couple of years, but the tradition, happily, remains.
This is my second year in charge of the turkey, but it turned out well last year (I highly recommend the remote meat thermometer), and I will have expert advice on hand this time.
Last night I prepared the stuffing, the maple-rosemary butter for basting the turkey, the maple-allspice butter for sweet potatoes and squash, and the spiced cranberry sauce. Other people are managing veggies and bread and dessert. Apparently "dessert" includes a pecan-Drambuie pie.
Something tells me there's going to be a great deal of thanks-giving in this house this year.
In the wake of the current firestorm, San Diego area fans have set up a couple of check-in sites.
Wiki: http://www.conrunner.net/wiki/
Yahoo! newsgroup: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sdfans2007fires/
(Zak and I are not in danger. I'd like to say we are in no danger, but that's an impossible statement to make given this weather.)
The Creative Commons copyright claims strike me as pretty damn ingenuous, at best.
Anybody remember that copyright notice on the GEnie login screen? (For the uninitiated: GEnie was a paid online service, a competitor to CompuServe Back In The Day, a predecessor to AOL, and the home of SFWA in the early '90s.)
Remember how it was explained that that was a compilation copyright, and did not in fact mean that General Electric owned all of our posts and uploaded files?
Remember how somebody bought up GEnie, tried to put up all the roundtable messages and file library contents on the Internet, and had to take it all down because they didn't have the rights to do that?
Even if Andrew Burt couldn't recognize a compilation copyright -- which I find doubtful -- I'd at least hope Jerry Pournelle would. I'm fairly certain Burt was on GEnie, but I know Pournelle ran a roundtable there.
In other words, they really ought to know better, and I find it difficult to believe they don't.
(If I'm misremembering any of this, I hope somebody will correct me.)
I knew him only from The Dragon Waiting and his Paranoia supplement and his posts here. Still, I'm heartbroken.
It doesn't seem right that he's no longer here.
I wish I'd thought of the cool shower trick two weeks ago. (Southern California, no air conditioning.)
The thought that the forums may soon be back, more or less undamaged, nearly brings tears to my eyes.
Yes. It's been that kind of week.
I know others have said this already, but thank you for the temporary shelter and watering hole.
One of my (admittedly selfish) fears is that some of the wonderful folks who have gathered at the Cooler will decide the tumult isn't worth it and stop posting.
Teresa, if your friend has posted a book's worth of wisdom at the Cooler, I have undoubtedly benefitted from her wisdom more than once. I hope she doesn't lose heart.
Had it not been for the Absolute Write Water Cooler, I would have never applied to Viable Paradise last year. It's a terrific resource, and I'm very glad to know it'll be back soon.
I hate seeing somebody get results by yelling and screaming and being abusive to people who don't deserve the abuse. That, I think, is the worst part of this whole mess for me. Dr. Bauer has now learned she can get (at least temporary) results from throwing a large enough fit. She's not the sort of person I want getting that kind of positive reinforcement.
Found today:
... dragging his heals like a child ...
That's one dreadful phrase that won't find its way into the wild. (This thread is more like a zoo, or maybe a quarantine pen.)
Then there's the news story that circulated several years ago (i.e. almost certainly apocryphal) about the Neo-Nazi who went before the court to change his name in honor of his hero.
Yes, that's right.
Hi Hitler.
Did you know that the island of Surtsey was formed by undersea fishers? It's true -- I heard it in an educational film. (Granted, I was in elementary school at the time, and hadn't come across fissure often enough to be familiar with it.)
... and the rein/reign thing is sneaky and evil even if you know better. Just sayin'.
Greg: What you're looking for is here.
Well, not exactly, because not all the rights to the quotes have cleared yet. But the "speechless" version, at least.
Especially charming how it's misattributed so that all the excesses can be written off as the emotional lability of a hysterical female. But she has family fighting in Iraq, so of course she has the right to be emotional, and how cruel the leftist traitors are to upset a poor innocent woman like that...
I'm not reading too much into this, am I?
Oh, no. I hope the planner vs. "pantzer" argument doesn't infest here, now, too. ("Pantzer" = somebody who writes by the seat of the pants, i.e. without outlining.) It's a very popular topic of debate on a writing site I frequent, and I'm always horrified at how quickly it devolves into an issue of moral superiority despite the efforts of most participants.
Stephen King is just wrong here, IMO. And I say this as a freak who straddles both sides of the planner-pantzer divide.
If dinosaurs don't interest me, can I substitute pygmy mammoths instead?
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