Suffering Fools Gladly; You're Doing it Wrong
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniWell! That could have gone worse. And having my brain still dialed to "Con" meant that I got a solution to a problem that has been blighting my secretarial life for months. This is what happens when you dare to call the Ghod of Email on the telephone. Really. He was very helpful, after an initial muddle of mutual misunderstanding. I have my hack, and life is good. Which is a pleasant way to end a day that started with the news that the other chairpersonship to be filled next year, has been. Alas. Next year is not shaping up to be the winner in the Best Bosses category. Maybe I'll take a sabbatical.
In poster-making news, a speaker who had given me a title for his talk Some Months Back, and for which a poster had been made and printed, decided -- you're ahead of me, aren't you? Yep; he decided to change the title to something High Falutin' and Scholarly. How Scholarly is the new title? Let's just say that it doesn't lend itself well to illustration. I wrote to the speaker, asking if he had an image which he had the right to use that I could incorporate into his new poster, and received a reply within minutes.
If I was "worried about copyright" the answer ran, then my speaker couldn't help me.
Yeah, I'm worried about copyright. So sue me. The typeface on his poster is extremely readable, if I do say so myself. It's a pure wonder how big you can make the words without a silly graphic taking up space.
On my way home, I stopped at the post office box, and picked up a bunch of goodies, including cover flats for Longeye and the Moo cards that were supposed to have arrived in time for us to take them to StellarCon. I'm impressed. Nice stock, clear printing. The information on the reverse is a little small for old eyes, but that really is a quibble. I'm going to be ordering in some more of these to take to WorldCon.
At home, two more boxes of Longeye are taking up a sizeable chunk of the living room, these to be signed and then sent on their way to Mysterious Galaxy. If you have a signed Duainfey and want a matched set, Mysterious Galaxy is your go-to place.
Mozart has been very clingy; I can't sit down without having a seventeen pound coon cat in my lap and/or sprawled across the keyboard. The attention is flattering, of course, but the retro-guilt is killing me.
I ought to work tonight, but I'm not gonna. I'm going to meet Steve in the living room and watch an episode or two of Avatar and then I'm going to bed. Perhaps my brain will dial down from "Con" on the overnight.
Or perhaps it won't.
In poster-making news, a speaker who had given me a title for his talk Some Months Back, and for which a poster had been made and printed, decided -- you're ahead of me, aren't you? Yep; he decided to change the title to something High Falutin' and Scholarly. How Scholarly is the new title? Let's just say that it doesn't lend itself well to illustration. I wrote to the speaker, asking if he had an image which he had the right to use that I could incorporate into his new poster, and received a reply within minutes.
If I was "worried about copyright" the answer ran, then my speaker couldn't help me.
Yeah, I'm worried about copyright. So sue me. The typeface on his poster is extremely readable, if I do say so myself. It's a pure wonder how big you can make the words without a silly graphic taking up space.
On my way home, I stopped at the post office box, and picked up a bunch of goodies, including cover flats for Longeye and the Moo cards that were supposed to have arrived in time for us to take them to StellarCon. I'm impressed. Nice stock, clear printing. The information on the reverse is a little small for old eyes, but that really is a quibble. I'm going to be ordering in some more of these to take to WorldCon.
At home, two more boxes of Longeye are taking up a sizeable chunk of the living room, these to be signed and then sent on their way to Mysterious Galaxy. If you have a signed Duainfey and want a matched set, Mysterious Galaxy is your go-to place.
Mozart has been very clingy; I can't sit down without having a seventeen pound coon cat in my lap and/or sprawled across the keyboard. The attention is flattering, of course, but the retro-guilt is killing me.
I ought to work tonight, but I'm not gonna. I'm going to meet Steve in the living room and watch an episode or two of Avatar and then I'm going to bed. Perhaps my brain will dial down from "Con" on the overnight.
Or perhaps it won't.
