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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanni1. Steve has caught a nasty cold and is home sick today. While this is the better part of valor, it's also a measure of just how badly he feels. *worries*
2. I'm wearing three shirts (including my thickest flannel shirt), heavy jeans and ski socks and I'm still freezing up here in the attic office. Time to run a couple laps up and down the hall, I guess. Fleece. I need more fleece.
3. Apparently the campus has been invaded by Clan Corvus. My usual walk from the parking lot to the above-referenced attic office follows a winding path around the art museum and through a pleasant little park occupied by oak trees and old pine, which house the Fattest Squirrels in the State of Maine. Yesterday morning, the snow cover in the park was littered with twigs, broken branches, acorns and pine cones; the pathway carpeted with pine needles, and stained with a really disgusting amount of guano. Two of my co-workers, who leave later in the day that I do, told me that their evening walk to the parking lot was made dangerous by the hundreds and hundreds of crows in the trees in the park and around the adjacent dorms. I had thought that crows always returned to their same territory to roost for the night, so I'm wondering where they got kicked out of. I suppose the grounds folks will have to evict them before the majority of students come back for spring session.
4. A former proponent of "information-wants-to-be-free" rethinks his position.
5. So, who's read the Saltation eArc? Show of hands only, please -- no spoilers.
2. I'm wearing three shirts (including my thickest flannel shirt), heavy jeans and ski socks and I'm still freezing up here in the attic office. Time to run a couple laps up and down the hall, I guess. Fleece. I need more fleece.
3. Apparently the campus has been invaded by Clan Corvus. My usual walk from the parking lot to the above-referenced attic office follows a winding path around the art museum and through a pleasant little park occupied by oak trees and old pine, which house the Fattest Squirrels in the State of Maine. Yesterday morning, the snow cover in the park was littered with twigs, broken branches, acorns and pine cones; the pathway carpeted with pine needles, and stained with a really disgusting amount of guano. Two of my co-workers, who leave later in the day that I do, told me that their evening walk to the parking lot was made dangerous by the hundreds and hundreds of crows in the trees in the park and around the adjacent dorms. I had thought that crows always returned to their same territory to roost for the night, so I'm wondering where they got kicked out of. I suppose the grounds folks will have to evict them before the majority of students come back for spring session.
4. A former proponent of "information-wants-to-be-free" rethinks his position.
5. So, who's read the Saltation eArc? Show of hands only, please -- no spoilers.
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Date: 2010-01-12 02:39 pm (UTC)Even Professional Naturalist Wife was rather perplexed.
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Date: 2010-01-12 02:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-12 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-12 03:01 pm (UTC)Melita
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Date: 2010-01-12 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-13 06:38 am (UTC)Some will be recoverable when I get home. Others... will not.
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Date: 2010-01-12 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-12 03:33 pm (UTC)Because the record labels weren't willing and able to work with Napster and the like to come up with a way to monetize the process (either through a "subscription" fee which would be split out in a way similar to radio airplay via ASCAP/BMI, or by making it possible to buy individual songs as the iTunes Store later did), they lost out on a chance to make the "cultural default" be paying for music online.
(The fact that iTunes makes money even now shows that they didn't completely blow it, but I think the expectation-setting made it a lot harder to sell music than it would have been otherwise.)
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Date: 2010-01-12 03:39 pm (UTC)Hopefully, we got 'em all!
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Date: 2010-01-12 03:38 pm (UTC)Delete it delete it!
*dies*
~Lizah C, whose brain is a bit defective but already out of warranty
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Date: 2010-01-12 03:39 pm (UTC)deleted by request
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Date: 2010-01-12 03:45 pm (UTC)And loving it.
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Date: 2010-01-12 04:10 pm (UTC)Part way through and today 's time is booked on work related stuff. I hope to finish it this week however.
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Date: 2010-01-12 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-12 04:31 pm (UTC)Read it - re-reading parts of it.
Appetite whetted for Ghost Ship.
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Date: 2010-01-12 05:06 pm (UTC)Technologically challenged
Date: 2010-01-12 05:10 pm (UTC)Oh, and I did notice a few typos in the free first 9 chapters. Should I mention them in a private email to Sharon?
Anne
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Date: 2010-01-12 05:24 pm (UTC)Wow. Thank you.
How do I buy the eARC version and what do I do with it after I buy it?
You can go here (http://www.webscription.net/p-1223-saltation-arc.aspx) for the eArc. I think, but cannot prove, that there are instructions telling you how to download and giving you a choice of formats, including .rtf -- which you can read in your word processor. I recall the process as straightforward and friendly. On the other hand, I've been living on a computer of one sort or another for twenty years, so much that seems obvious to me may not be.
Maybe someone who is more familiar with Webscriptions from a reader/buyer standpoint will come by and provide details.
Oh, and I did notice a few typos in the free first 9 chapters. Should I mention them in a private email to Sharon?
No, thank you. The authors' galleys (the step after the eArc) have been turned back. Hopefully we and the other folks who went over those caught most of the typos.
Re: Technologically challenged(Free Test)
Date: 2010-01-12 07:52 pm (UTC)Before buying an expensive eARC, I would highly recommend experimenting with the free books:
( http://www.webscription.net/c-1-free-library.aspx )
Under “More Info” click on download for a book you are interested in. For each book it says “sample chapters” at the top, but on the left hand column are other formats of the complete book.
Previously I read my books online, but it tied up my phone line. Then I downloaded the HTML version of each. Since my eyes are getting older I could make it 20 pt using the commands on the left.
=FIN
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Date: 2010-01-12 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-12 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-12 07:20 pm (UTC)Richard
Dessert
Date: 2010-01-12 07:55 pm (UTC)=FIN
eARC
Date: 2010-01-12 07:57 pm (UTC)(In fact, I completed reading it ~6 hours after it went up on Webscriptions...)
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Date: 2010-01-12 09:14 pm (UTC)Found out about it at one of our local SF cons (waves at ariaflame), and read it the following night!
read it
Date: 2010-01-12 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-13 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-13 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-13 01:37 am (UTC)You do get more money from an eArc purchase, don't you?
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Date: 2010-01-13 01:47 am (UTC)Judy
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Date: 2010-01-13 04:23 am (UTC)Brom
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Date: 2010-01-13 01:24 pm (UTC)Re: #4, the death of creativity
Date: 2010-01-13 07:03 pm (UTC)Eh, I think we need to come up with new ways to preserve IP. I remember reading that - because of the lack of copyright reciprocity across the Atlantic - it wasn't until the 1960s that European authors received royalties for American published editions of their work. One particular standout (to me) was that Les Miserables was a bestseller in the North and the South during the Civil War but the author didn't see a dime, err, sou.
Lauretta
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Date: 2010-01-13 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-15 02:41 am (UTC)Ipod touch does great as a portable ebook reader for whn riding into work on the metro in DC...
Saltation E-ARC
Date: 2010-01-18 04:57 pm (UTC)John Danielson