Summer Reading Poll! Droid Apps! LJ-Book Assist!
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rolanniWow, is that a classy headline, or what?
Anyhow — remember ‘way back the beginning of the summer when NPR asked everybody within the sound of their pixels to nominate books-and-series for their Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Book List? Well! They’ve whittled the first list of 5,000+/- titles down to the top 250 and now they need your help again. Go here and choose your personal top 10 from the list provided. Full disclosure: Yes, “The Liaden Universe by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller” is on the list.
OK, that. What’s next? Droid apps! Actually, Droid app. Those of you who use your Droid to make notes-to-self — which app do you use? I had just about settled on one that looked to be everything I wanted and more! (having narrowly talked myself out of the one that takes notes in 18th century copperplate), but upon reading the fine print, it would appear that this particular app prevents the phone from going to sleep, which means, as I understand the matter, the phone will chew through its battery faster. Yes, the Droid does have the increased capacity battery (the first thing I do for my gadgets, after they’ve taken the Oath of Fealty, is fix ‘em up with the high-capacity battery and more memory, if applicable), but I’m going to be traveling by train, and power outlets are not always as plentiful as one would wish.
How’m I doing here? One more topic to cover.
Who can help me with LJ-Book? I…can’t seem to get a book out of it. It’s probably something very, very simple that I’m doing wrong, but at this point it seems pretty clear that I’m not going to find it on my own.
In other news from around the Cat Farm, yesterday was the Official! Ghost Ship Release Day. The sales numbers on Barnes and Noble have been dancing around in the 400 and 500s, which is pretty dern awesome; and in the 700 to 900 range at Amazon.com, which also Isn’t Too Bad.
It’s been difficult to work without Hexapuma keeping a watch over my keyboard, but I have been paying attention to the submissions for the writing workshop Steve and I are leading on WorldCon Thursday, and also to George. That last is going a little less quickly than I want, but I’m at one of the anchor scenes, and it has to be right — set deep and straight.
The WorldCon dance card is filling right up. Looks like I’m going to sprint out to the museum for mummies on Wednesday morning before the con starts — which, for us, will be Wednesday at 3:45, at the Sierra View Library. Still have to locate a laundromat for…Sunday sometime, that looks like. Except for those two outside excursions, it’ll be All Con, All the Time.
Today…can’t figure out if it’s going to rain or just be cloudy, cool and damp. I can go with either of those, frankly, because? I’ll be at the dining room table, staring at a blank page until the drops of blood break out on my forehead.
Wish me luck.
Progress on the Book Presently known as George
45,844 words/100,000 OR 45% complete
“You see them don’t you?” she whispered, her breath hot against his cheek and smelling faintly of mint. “You see them, inside the darkness. They’re waiting for us, eh? Aren’t they? Waiting to eat us, and spit out our souls.”
Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2011-08-03 03:56 pm (UTC)Hubbard Way Coin Laundry
135 Hubbard Way # A, Reno, NV 0.7 mi N
(775) 825-1135
Reno Launderland
4970 South Virginia Street, Reno, NV 0.6 mi S
(775) 825-9274
However, I have no idea how clean/desirable they may be.
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Date: 2011-08-03 04:07 pm (UTC)Notes on a Droid
Date: 2011-08-03 04:52 pm (UTC)Plus, you can use http://www.textdropapp.com/ to edit them from any web browser.
Chris
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Date: 2011-08-03 05:09 pm (UTC)I have Ghost Ship(s). I am a happy bookseller, soon to have happy customers.
Thanks for the bits of George. Yum.
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks
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Date: 2011-08-03 08:25 pm (UTC)Ellen gloats over Ghost Ship
Date: 2011-08-03 08:46 pm (UTC)Hexapuma
Date: 2011-08-03 09:40 pm (UTC)I just had to put down one of my cats from the same thing.
Mine was with us longer (16 years), so he is missed a little more.
The other cats are somewhat in shock and wandering around looking for him, checking out the chair that was his, etc.
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Date: 2011-08-04 03:04 am (UTC)Ghost Ship
Date: 2011-08-04 06:41 am (UTC)Good luck with George. Let us know when you actually have a title for it.
Have a good trip,
C.
Excursions
Date: 2011-08-04 06:42 am (UTC)C.
Power for your Droid
Date: 2011-08-04 06:44 am (UTC)-Bart
Re: LJ-Book
Date: 2011-08-04 12:20 pm (UTC)"Why can't I generate a LJBook even if my login/password and UTF-8 conversions are OK ?
LiveJournal will not allow more than 3 backups per hour. Thus LJBook's requests will be rejected.
Allow 2-3 hours and retry."
I think that means 3 backups overall for LJBook, which means there's a reasonably good chance if you put in the same request a while later -- it might work. As long as not too many people are trying to use it at the same time!
Give it another shot, and see if it works.
I voted!
Date: 2011-08-04 05:45 pm (UTC)Mary in MN
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Date: 2011-08-04 06:02 pm (UTC)Ghost Ship and cats
Date: 2011-08-06 02:37 pm (UTC)I received Ghost Ship from Uncle Hugo's last month, and read through it once to get the 'big picture', and am now re-reading it to get the nuances. Loved the book! Can't wait for the next one.
My deepest sympathies on Hex's passing. I had the same thing happen to the sweetest cat I adopted when he showed up living in a neighbor's basement window well. He was a polydactyl with a pure white, Angora-type coat. His favorite trick was to sit on my chest (all 12 poinds of him!), purring and drooling, to wake me up in the morning! After I he had been with me for about 4 or 5 years, he suddenly developed kidney failure and had to be "sent down the rainbow road". I still miss him to this day.
M.C.Thomson