| Friday, November 20th, 2009 |
| 8:09 am |
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| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 |
| 3:15 pm |
Writer's Block: Book review
None. There are of course limits to what such a library can hold -- both budgetary and space-wise -- so there will of course be some element of "banning" in a de-facto sense because the librarians will have to choose what books they BUY for the library. However, if we assume that I have an infinite library so all published books fit in there, I ban none of them. I may separate some out into an area where they are clearly marked as "your parents may not want you to read these", but maybe not; after all, that would just invite them to borrow the books MORE. A librarian's job is to provide access to information, not to decide what information the library provides. There may be SPECIFIC CASES -- as in, relative not to the book's content, but to the individual accessing said book -- in which you may want to either not hand the book over, or at least notify responsible people of the possibility of a problem -- but the book itself should not be, in effect, penalized for the fact that in the wrong hands it can cause trouble. INFORMATIONAL EDIT: I will note that back in... 1992, I was in an "Ethics in Information Science" class, and this precise question was asked. To my astonishment, I was either the only one, or one of only two, people in a class of about 30 would-be librarians and information professionals, who answered "no censorship" in the absolute and complete sense. All others were willing to do SOME level of censorship, ranging from "I wouldn't buy such books for the library" to "I'd file them so they're hard for anyone to locate" to "I'd have those books removed from the library as soon as possible". |
| 7:10 am |
Dear LORD!
I've been using the RTF capability of LJ to post these chapters without my having to go through them by hand and insert the italics, etc., but in this chapter, for some reason, two lines ended up screwed up (one of those "invisible change of format in Word" tricks), so I went into the HTML to fix them. HolyCRAP that's ugly. I must rip out my eyeballs. |
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| Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
| 6:23 pm |
Grand Central Arena Teaser Trailer and Website are LIVE!
SEE the Video! VISIT the Website! TELL your fiends friends! The Teaser Trailer for GCA is now up at YouTube. It ends with a slide leading you to the Official Site for Grand Central Arena and for my other books. (eventually I'm going to get a more generic domain and this will form the nucleus of the site for everything). Give VERY SPECIAL thanks to: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) keithmm for the magnificent video footage of the Holy Grail. (plus one image of his concept for Ariane!) marydell for the kickass images of the three main characters (she's also promised to at least figure out some mugshot/passport photo images for the others). kayshapero for her work in making a nice, clean, not-too-complicated but professional looking site! So go look when you have a chance, and if you like what you see, send it to anyone else you think might like it! |
| 8:41 am |
GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 7
Our first chapter of the week, back to Simon's head. We are almost to the REAL start of action. And now we have our full crew, the ship is basically ready -- next time, we go for it! |
| Friday, November 13th, 2009 |
| 1:34 pm |
Writer's Block: Super-human
TheFull-power (as in, assume I have lots and lots of power to back it up) version of "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu", the duplicate-yourself power from Naruto. It has an INCREDIBLE number of applications in real life as well as in superhero situations, especially when you have enough power to manage not just one, but dozens or even hundreds of yourself. |
| 7:46 am |
GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 6
And now we reach our third chapter for this week; back to DuQuesne's point of view... Yes, Marc has his secrets, but he does seem to also be aware of the difficulties of his new companions... |
| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
| 10:13 am |
Am I wasting my time posting GCA on my LJ?
EDIT: Thanks all for the responses, I'm not wasting my time, so I will continue! I've seen virtually no replies (except from people already on my Beta list!) on my snippets, so I don't know if anyone is reading those posts. Some people on my friends list I know would not care to, or need to, read the snippets, so I suppose it's possible that anyone who IS interested in reading my stuff (at least prior to it actually being available in paper form) has already joined my Beta list and thus posting it here on my LJ is wasted effort. |
| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
| 7:57 am |
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
| 7:53 am |
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| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
| 6:42 am |
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| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 |
| 7:30 am |
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| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 |
| 6:34 am |
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| Thursday, October 29th, 2009 |
| 12:09 pm |
Writer's Block: Mysterious benefactor
I'd give them ... *pinky in mouth*... Ten... MILLION... Dollars. Because unless this anonymous person just happened to be one of the TRULY super rich, there's almost no one on Earth who wouldn't find a huge hunk of spendable cash a worthwhile gift. |
| Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 |
| 8:28 pm |
Word Problem...
Kathy's MS Word has suddenly developed a problem I don't know how to fix (nor how it happened). EDIT: Version Microsoft Word X for Macintosh OS X.Whenever she opens a document, it appears to be replacing a lot of characters like quotes, apostrophes, em-dashes, etc., with other symbols like accented "i"s and so on. My guess is that SOMEHOW a setting has been nudged in Word which is causing it to use some wierd character set instead of the normal one, but I can't find the place in Word's myriad menus of DOOM where such a setting might reside. . |
| 5:17 pm |
It's official...
... it's the Piggy Plague we have here. Test results came back positive. |
| 10:22 am |
There must be a TVTropes term/entry...
... for the phenomenon in videogames in which the characters are in trouble, a new character (or one they've occasionally encountered before in mysterious circumstances) intervenes and blows away the monstrous opposition with an incredibly cool power/attack, and then this cool guy joins the party... ... and is now probably weaker than your main characters. If you encountered NOW the thing that he beat ten minutes ago, it'd hand ALL of your asses to you on a silver platter on a bed of parsley, with Mr. Cool Attack being the first one to go. I can't seem to figure out what they would call it, though. Any help? |
| Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 |
| 2:48 pm |
Fall of Saints Teaser 2
Since Polychrome got two chapters (well, two prologues) I guess it's only fair to have two pieces of Fall of Saints posted. I realized that, oddly, both Fall of Saints and Polychrome have the characteristic that their first scene involves none of the real principal characters, even if it AFFECTS the principal characters, so that only in the second section of each do we meet any of the protagonists.
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| 8:42 am |
Writer's Block: Forgive and forget?
I really don't hold grudges for things done against me. It takes truly extreme work to make me mad at someone long-term. About the only person I can think of that I held anger against for like a year or more was my old boss, John Deep, and a lot of that was due to him torpedoing what had been my favorite job due to his deluded way of running his own company, which in the end cost everyone associated with him their jobs and got him and others sued, and got me subpoenaed to testify against him. And now I just mostly feel sorry for him and wonder if his family survived the mess. I certainly don't hold grudges against people that did not deliberately and directly and personally do anything to me (as opposed to, say, people I've heard of in other areas of the world who actually hold grudges against people who did things generations before they were born). |
