At least two of the suggestions in the last part, "You can save the endangered midlist author," are actually more about saving the endangered independent bookstore, which is a good cause, too, but not really quite the same as promoting lesser-known authors. People can buy Harry Potter just as easily at Joe's Bookstore as at Megachain.
And to promote my own favorite book-related cause:
I wish she'd mentioned libraries, which are excellent places for readers to find books by authors they don't already know and may not be willing to shell out $20 a pop for. (Hint: many public libraries, the one I work at included, are woefully underfunded and need all the help they can get in promotions and finding creative ways to get both people and books into their buildings.)
Ray, I'm very sorry to hear about Loki. Condolences to you, Angie, Calliope, and the rest of your family.
Tom, you're right. My scrud -- actually, in my case, I think it's sinusitis -- sometimes seems to clog my brain as well as my nasal passages.
Stephan, I meant a six between the "1" and the "00". As in "1600".
Or that they left out a figure. In Teresa's case I might suspect a 6 after the 1, for the verbal score.
Glad to hear you're feeling better, Teresa. Maybe next time anyone moves offices around at Tor, though, they should go to a hardware store and get dust masks to wear.
Hearkening back to a long-ago thread, now closed:
The Library of Congress is helping the Baghdad Library "rebuild and restructure". (Seen on LIS News.)
Just thought a little good news might be nice.
The furnace crisis is abating.
Hope that means it's fixed, or will be soon. Thinking warm thoughts for you.
I was taught by a lefty and I knit left-handed.
Paula, my mom was left-handed* and refused to teach me knitting for fear I'd learn backwards. When I finally learned it (from a book), she realized she'd been doing it right-handed all along!
*Actually, Mom was fairly ambidextrous, but she always thought of herself as a southpaw.
Ooooh! Those mobius scarves look very pretty and practical -- especially in this weather! -- as well as being mathematically curious. I've printed out the instructions and am going to try an all-one-piece one! If I can get it to work, guess what my sisters and nieces are getting next Christmas? (Maybe my nephew the math major too.)
that guy Arthur out on Staten Island
When I was in Perth Amboy, I wondered if Arthur was the killer or the killee. Until I remembered the "kill=creek" etymology I'd learned when reading Washington Irving in school, that is.
(Arthur Kill is the waterway crossed by the also oddly-named Outerbridge Crossing, which connects Staten Island to New Jersey.)
When I studied Chaucer in college, I found my best approximation of Middle English came by reading it with the vowel sounds I'd learned in French class. Basically, like the theory that the Great Vowel Shift began when everyone came home from ol' Geoff's funeral.
This site explains the spoofitude of the Objective site. But I've been exposed to so many weird splinter-group theological ideas that I wouldn't have been surprised if there were a Triclavian movement.
Then again, I was going through some Renaissance art books today and one of those had a painting of the three nails.
I send myself e-mail back and forth all the time from my four and a half different e-mail accounts (one I share with a coworker).
Do they get David Letterman in S.A.? He used to have fun dropping things from high places, though lately he seems to have replaced this with the "Will it float?" gag.
If terrorists were really into reference books, they'd use Chase's Annual Events. It tells what special events are going on, at least in the U.S., every day of the year, as well as a good bit of the stuff that's in almanacs. (It doesn't tell things like the tallest buildings, largest bridges, etc., though, which may be what the FBI thinks terrorists are really wanting to know.) We use it a lot at our reference desk. But I still love the World Almanac best even if I need stronger glasses to read it these days. Their print is getting awfully small lately! :-)
I've been known to tell people my motto is, "The World Almanac -- don't leave home without it." As I mentioned over on Electrolite, I may start taking that literally, just for spite.
Patrick: thanks. If I ever heard about the Beatles attempt to do LotR, I'd completely forgotten about it. Interesting idea, though, John as Gollum.
Teresa and Patrick: apropos of nothing else in this thread, I just wanted to show you the photo on this page.
As for the reading part: I do visualize things and people, and sometimes have an idea of sounds. If pressed I could probably come up with smells, tastes, or feels. My mom and I, because we often read the same books, used to play the casting game -- who do you see as this character? (we do this a lot on the Bujold list too.) Apparently she read things that way, too. So that got to be a habit.
Which leads back to the LotR movies. I've always cast Sam in my brain as Ringo Starr. (Don't ask why, but I think maybe Kip W. glommed onto it.) In fact the other Fab Three could be the other hobbits but I've never entirely settled on which was which.
Teresa, I'm glad to hear your computer is on the mend!
Data are like potato chips: you can't eat just one. Like a library with one book. Still, neither "potato chip" nor "book" is a mass noun, not even at my house.
I will try to look for the rocket program on Discovery. They're also apparently showing it Saturday, and the next Saturday too.
I'm not any help at all with the tech stuff, but I do want to offer my sympathy.
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