The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Laurie Ashton:

Evil Rob has a story about a cookout where they ran out of cheese and somebody went to the store and purchased the cheapest thing there: FMV, also known as the generic of generics.

Apparently, when they put them on the grill, they didn't even melt.

Sounds like the only kind of locally-made "cheese" we can get here in Sri Lanka... Just for kicks, I took a bit of "cheese" and put it in a frying pan on the highest flame because, well, I'm just that curious. Evidently, re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere wouldn't be enough to melt it since it turned black without even a hint of melting.

The last time I had decent cheese (note the lack of quotation marks) was on a trip to Dubai or Singapore.

So, I'm really really late to the party, but I'm in! I'm not too late, am I?

Curiously I arrived here via a New Zealand based writer's site (and I am in South Africa) - so this really has affected people across the world.

AW members are from all over the world, including Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Hong Kong... Well, admittedly, the Asian ones stick out more for me, and those are the ones I remember off the top of my head. AW is a world wide writer's community. Yup.

As a budding hobby-classicist, I just want to cringe at even the concept of pluralizing "database" as "databii".

Not that this person is alone: I've seen "cactii", "nexii", "penii", and "fetii" in recent years.

:D Yeah, I do it mainly to irritate people. :D Thanks for rising to the challenge. :D

Seth, thanks for the explanation. It makes sense. :)

Yup, Jim, it's done. :)

It really stinks that JCHosting has missed their THIRD deadline to release the hostages, er, databii. That's just another bad business decision on their part to heap on their other bad business decisions.

Why would anyone want to go to Barstow? Despite being Canadian and having been to California only once, even I know that it's the armpit of the nation...

Dawno, thanks for mentioning my post.

We really do need to take advantage of the many, many people posting the top twenty worst agents list on their sites and encourage them to link all the agents. We want all scammers posing as agents exposed, not just Barbara Bauer.

If you have a blog, and especially if you've copied the list onto your site/blog, please do this. Help protect the innocent and naive.

TNH, thank you for graciously allowing us to post here.

Regarding the recommendation for LunarPages webhosting upstream: don't. They unceremoniously kick sites off that have any kinds of problems at all. No forgiveness for things like exceeding bandwidth or CPU usage or. . . They dump and don't provide refunds for the remaining prepaid and unused portion.

I would not recommend them. In fact, I would recommend staying far, far away.

I have no doubt that Jenna will get AW back up and running in fairly short order. She's got an army of geeks volunteering to help her.

Thanks, Teresa, for providing this info.

Serge wrote:
"I'd say that was romantic, Teresa. I wonder how many people here have had the chance to join with someone who's their soul mate. Life's such a crapshoot that it's rather unbelievable that these joinings happen at all."

Me, too! I downloaded a program my husband wrote, had problems with it, posted on his forum for help, started chatting with him to fix the html and ftp stuff that made no sense to me, then flew from Canada to Sri Lanka to meet him in person just shy of two months later, and we were married about eight hours later. :D Bonus round: We both write science fiction.

Theresa, your medical situation sucks. I hope it gets better, and soon.

Serge wrote:
"I'd say that was romantic, Teresa. I wonder how many people here have had the chance to join with someone who's their soul mate. Life's such a crapshoot that it's rather unbelievable that these joinings happen at all."

Me, too! I downloaded a program my husband wrote, had problems with it, posted on his forum for help, started chatting with him to fix the html and ftp stuff that made no sense to me, then flew from Canada to Sri Lanka to meet him in person just shy of two months later, and we were married about eight hours later. :D Bonus round: We both write science fiction.

Theresa, your medical situation sucks. I hope it gets better, and soon.

I suffer from multiple sleep disorders, and if my treatment was taken away, especially with no warning, I'd be pretty damned angry, too. It took long enough for sleep disorders to be recognized and diagnosed (over ten years for me) as a health problem for many of us, but to be denied treatment when one that's so successful is available? That's one huge load of the stinkiest elephant crap imaginable! I'm sorry you and others are going through this.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article and the ensuing debates. The Context of Rejection with the 13 reasons a manuscript were rejected are my favorite part.

I thoroughly enjoyed the article as well. At least I know there's hope!

Hey, if Tor does decide to open up slush pile reading, I'm in!

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