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New Soul

May. 14th, 2008 | 12:17 am
posted by: [info]devinjay


I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take
But since I came here, felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake


Yeah, it's the song from the Macbook Air ad. I like it.

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devinjay

Capitalism

May. 14th, 2008 | 12:09 am
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eviltofu

Bacon!

May. 13th, 2008 | 11:51 pm
posted by: [info]eviltofu

Is there... bacon flavoured milk?

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felisdemens

Metalocalypse

May. 13th, 2008 | 11:41 am
posted by: [info]felisdemens

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

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norda

Pun alert.

May. 13th, 2008 | 11:04 am
mood: giddy giddy
posted by: [info]norda

I got a phone call from a celebrity yesterday while I was making dinner, which flustered me so much that I forgot a key ingredient in the casserole I was concocting... an ingredient that I didn't even miss until I heated up leftovers for a late night snack.

The celebrity [no, I'm not telling you who] paid me some very sweet compliments on our customer service.

That kind of flattery can tuna girl's head.

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efw

CAPITALIZED GREETING!

May. 13th, 2008 | 10:42 am
posted by: [info]smarriveurr in [info]efw

Expressions of greeting and glee at finding community! Vague assertions of OP's status as completely exemplary member, with no supporting evidence. Joy at finally having discovered like-minded individuals!

Horrifically lengthy, detailed biographical introduction of OP, containing no information or events relevant to community function or interests, highlighting supposed personal accomplishments in attempt to impress community at large. Particular emphasis on description of minor hardships OP has endured and supposedly overcome, painted as epic struggles against grotesque injustice.

Facetious apology for length biographical introduction. Indication that OP now intends to focus on matters relevant to community at large.

Willfully ignorant description of community purpose. Indication of OP's utter agreement with misrepresented ideals. Assertion that, due to fresh perspective, OP has discovered myriad issues in community preventing members from achieving OP's incorrect interpretation of community goals.

Exhortation of membership to "return" to previously misrepresented ideals of community. Heartfelt promise that achievement of indicated goals remain firmly in reach of community, given minor modification to community regulations. Faux humility to introduce OP's recommended course of action.

Lengthy list of suggestions for new community standards, many of which directly contradict actual community goals and unspoken traditions. Solutions to problems that have never occured within community. Redundant regulations to supplement current regulations, which succeed only in complicating current ruleset and opening present, straightforward system for neverending debate.

Cheerful repetition of joy at finding community! Heartfelt exhortation to "true" members of community to aid OP in "improving" standards and practices of community!

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shlafe

Help a Writer #4

May. 13th, 2008 | 09:48 am
mood: tired tired
posted by: [info]shlafe

Occupations you can do from home, any time of the day.

Use of a computer would be helpful.

I've already thought about computer programmer and novelist.  :)

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deborahb

Talking 'bout my revolution

May. 13th, 2008 | 10:28 pm
posted by: [info]deborahb

"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution."
-- Emma Goldman, Feminist of the Day ([info]feminist_otd)

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benpayne

The week so far

May. 13th, 2008 | 10:17 pm
music: Sparklehorse
posted by: [info]benpayne

busy busy busy

Have been getting shit done this week, both at work and at home, advancing various projects. Writing has been slowly stuttering back to life. I'm dissatisfied with everything I write. Stupid words. Be more interesting.

In general I've been feeling somewhat distant and.... thoughtful. *shrug* And so on.

Reading about the Spanish Civil War. Good times.

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devinjay

Perfect

May. 13th, 2008 | 07:54 pm
posted by: [info]devinjay

In a perfect world, I'd wake every morning beside you, and we'd take the dogs for a walk before settling down on the balcony to read the papers together over juice and toast.

Instead, I roll out of bed, have a shit, a shower and a shave before heading out to catch the 7am bus.

In a perfect world, I'd spend the day making music, taking photos, singing, dancing and writing, engaging my creativity at every turn.

Instead, I teach hordes of students, when I'm not putting a magazine together in a faraway office.

In a perfect world, I'd cook a simple dinner for us both, and after that, we'd settle down to read or watch tv or surf the 'net with the dogs wuffing softly as they lay at our feet.

Instead, I come home, turn my PC on and send out tendrils of connection through the 'net, on Facebook and Livejournal and Twitter, while still doing whatever work is left over from the day.

In a perfect world, I'd holiday often, and I'd get to take you to the south of France, to Tuscany, to New York.

Instead, I scrimp and save to spend a few days each year with my extended family in Perth and Carnarvon and Canberra and Melbourne.

In a perfect world, I'd be perfectly safe, perfectly stable, perfectly content.

Instead I'm reasonably safe, excitingly unstable and somehow still content.

In a perfect world I'd be a man with a mission.

Instead, I pray for salvation and mercy every day, and with every breath thank the Maker for my blessings.

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adele_cb

writing

May. 13th, 2008 | 12:09 pm
posted by: [info]adele_cb

http://www.pendlewriters.com/
There are many, many articles on writing at the above link.

I am supposed to be writing the next chapter of Rowan. It's the quiet bit before the Big Bit at the end of the novel. The huge white screen looks kinda scary, so I'm proscrastinating by pottering (hiding) on LJ.

Eeeeek. What am I going to write in the next chapter?!!!!! I have NO idea! Well, I know what the character in question has to do, I just haven't a clue how he's going to do it. Oh well, I'll start writing and see what lands on the page.

*gulps, and heads-off to Word....*



Edit:- Ta-dah! 1,680 words, three hours and two cups of tea later, the next chapter (the quiet bit) is done. Ok, onto the Big Bit (tommorow!)
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invadersteven

Fraggles, fraggles everywhere!

May. 13th, 2008 | 05:37 am
posted by: [info]invadersteven


Weinsteins Reviving Fraggle Rock

The Weinstein Co. will adapt the Jim Henson series Fraggle Rock into a live-action musical feature, Variety reported. Cory Edwards (Hoodwinked!) will direct the film and write the screenplay. The Jim Henson Co. will produce and The Weinstein Co. will distribute.

Just like the series, the film will be populated by a mix of human characters and Fraggle Rock muppets. It will take the core characters Gogo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red outside of their home in Fraggle Rock, where they interact with humans who they think are aliens. The show premiered on HBO in 1983, ran five seasons and was broadcast in more than 80 countries. It posted strong sales recently when the first three seasons were released on DVD.

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caligatia

Taking a break from knitting

May. 13th, 2008 | 02:35 am
posted by: [info]caligatia

For the last day or two I've been wanting to cross-stitch. I found the Hello Cthulhu pattern, but it was bigger than I wanted so I graphed my own smaller version. Today when I ran errands (post office, library) I ran into Joanns for some aida cloth.

In... let's see... two hours... I've outlined one wing, the face, and a hand. The graph version is rough and I'm kind of filling it in as I go along. It's fun to "draw" with needle and thread.

I'm tired. Going to sleep now.

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yuki_onna

Things I Hardly Knew I Missed

May. 12th, 2008 | 11:50 pm
mood: awake awake
posted by: [info]yuki_onna

I haven't had a hotel room to myself in ages. At a con, if I'm not with [info]justbeast, I'm rooming with someone to save money. It's so strange, to be alone in this clean room that isn't really mine, but temporarily tolerates my presence. It's a calming thing, though isolating. I miss my beast, his constant presence, even when I am off arguing silly things on panels--the hotel room is where I am always grounded, always loved and known. So I have an instinctual response to such conglomerations of bed + table + desk + TV, but now the source of the love and grounding and knowing is not here, and it is just a strange space. But I still feel a little of that grace, even alone.

There is a little waterfall outside my window, and a river in the canyon below. I can hear rushing water all the time. We lost power today, and so I spent most of the afternoon reading and sleeping. I'm cooking for the lot tomorrow, and am slightly nervous, as Walter Jon Williams and Maureen McHugh have been on dinner duty so far, and produced kingly feasts. I hope I can not screw it up.

Many long conversations on books, the writing of them and the reading of them, have spooled out already. And when they stop, I feel like a poor kid at the candy store window who saved up all her money for one little toffee, but is still so hungry. I miss this. There was a time when this was a daily part of my life, talking about literature and criticism and what books should be and do and what we settle for and why. A time when books mattered so much to everyone I knew that to love them--more than love, to be devoted to them--was not an idiosyncrasy. It doesn't happen offline (the online world is wonderful, but it doesn't really satisfy, ultimately) too much these days, except with [info]justbeast, or the occasional manifestation of an online person in the too-brief flesh. I hang with people who love books, but not really the kind of books I love, not the way I love them, and the joy I take in criticism and the apparatus of studying books is something I don't get to let out play at all anymore.  Geekdom comes in many flavors, and I have broadened my horizons in the last few years...and lost the sandbox, lost the safe and vibrant spaces I used to love to play in myself. This week is like being thrown into a mountain pool after being allowed one drop of water every day for five years. I'm just so stupidly grateful.

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girliejones

New Ceres

May. 13th, 2008 | 01:43 pm
posted by: [info]girliejones

So ahhh .... you might have noticed that www.newceres.com is currently down. It seems that I must have been diddled at some point with my domain registration - in that when I checked out my new offer to reregister, we decided *that* one was a scam and then to wait for my original registration company to contact me to reregister. That letter never came and by the time the domain name had expired, it seems I am now unable to reregister the name.

In the meantime, you can access the site at: http://www.ceres.dreamhosters.com
And it will be accessible from the new Twelfth Planet Press website which will soon be up and running.

Issue 1 of New Ceres is, has and will always remain free. And it's downloadable from the website.

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lyndahawryluk

Space

May. 13th, 2008 | 03:22 pm
mood: quiet
music: Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
posted by: [info]lyndahawryluk

Ooh, I will so be downloading and using the Worldwide Telescope. Let's not forget the tragedy and heartache inflicting the poorest most oppressed and most populated parts of the world lately. From this angle, we're all neighbours:


http://www.geography4kids.com/extras/dtop_space/moonearth_1024x768.jpg

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mistborn

A great Reader Mail Question

May. 13th, 2008 | 12:30 am
posted by: [info]mistborn

I posted that other email I got that was somewhat negative, but the overwhelming majority are very encouraging and thoughtful.  I got one piece recently from a reader named Matt which got me thinking.  It relates to A MEMORY OF LIGHT, and so I figured I'd answer it here.

Brandon - My name is Matt, and I have been following your blog posts and website since you were announced as the writer for AMOL. A question to ask occurred to me today that I don't think I ever saw in any of your interviews/posts about being selected to write the book. As a fan, is a part of you disappointed to read the ending of the story the way you did, that is through RJ's notes and not after reading an entire book?

Excellent question!  My answer follows:

It was indeed a different experience to read through the outline and materials, with the holes and occasional vague sections, rather than reading a complete novel. A little bit of me is regretful. Of all the readers and fans out there, I'm one of the few who won't be able to experience this book for the first time in its complete form. Mr. Jordan's assistants and wife have probably been in that boat for years!

And yet, I am a writer, and I don't look at an outline the same way that a regular reader might. The closest approximation I can make is to origami masters. If you go and look at their websites, they will often release 'patterns' that go with a new piece of origami they've developed. The pattern is just a sheet of paper with lines on it. I look at that, and all I see are lines. But to another origami master, that pattern reveals the exact method used to create the piece. They can look at the pattern and see the finished product.

This outline was kind of like that for me, particularly since the ending was the most complete section. I could look at it, and my mind filled in the gaps, adding the foreshadowings and character climaxes that had come before, taking the hints and the outline chunks that Mr. Jordan wrote and putting them all together. It didn't feel like reading a complete book, but I felt like I could SEE that complete book as he would have written it, and that has become my guide in writing it myself.

(I might also note at the end here that one thing I forgot to include in my email to him is that while I didn't get to read the final book like you all will, I DID get to find out what happened at the end of the series a good two years ahead of anyone else!)

I really need to get some annotations posted this week.  Sorry for all of you waiting!  They're coming.  As a consolation, you can see that my primary goal of getting 10k of AMoL was accomplished last week, and I was able to add 3% to the counter.

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girliejones

It's Fan Art, BBC

May. 13th, 2008 | 11:39 am
posted by: [info]girliejones

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23691066-23109,00.html
A CRAFT enthusiast who posted knitting patterns inspired by Doctor Who characters on the internet has had them exterminated by the BBC's own Daleks in the forms of a copyright infringement notice.

In a statement posted on their website, science fiction and knitting fan Mazzmatazz said they were forced to remove five designs after a notice from the BBC.

"Thanks to the BBC, I am no longer allowed to distribute any Doctor Who patterns, even for free (not that I was charging anyway). I apologise to any fans who are disappointed by this," the knitter said.


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The offending knitting patterns showed how to create small toys resembling Doctor Who monsters such as the Ood and Adipose.

"The patterns I created, inspired by Doctor Who, were never for sale – they were shared under Creative Commons licenses, to prevent resale, so that other fans could enjoy and share the fun too," Mazzmatazz said.

The infringement notice has angered bloggers who claim the BBC is overreacting to fan art, and that the patterns are not a direct representation of their characters.



Ahhh good times. I guess knitters everywhere will have to go underground with their infringement stuffed daleks. What's next? Banning of Dalek gingerbread cookies?

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girliejones

Heehehehe

May. 13th, 2008 | 11:15 am
posted by: [info]girliejones

This link is for [info]martinlivings.

I celebrate that there is someone else ploughing through the same stuff as us.

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devinjay

Complete

May. 13th, 2008 | 10:01 am
posted by: [info]devinjay


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