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toys and pimpage
May. 8th, 2006 11:55 pmThe new laptop has been ordered. New as in new, not new as in Official Factory Refurbished, which was the original plan. There go the royalties for the first quarter...
Pimpage 1: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine is experimenting with pdf distribution. The initial trial is with issue 22, which is available at a special low price of A$3, reflecting the lack of cover art and a couple of the stories. Note down the password you're given before clicking on the link, as the customer interface leaves something to be desired...
http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/orderpdf.htm
Pimpage 2: Currently working my way through Harald
, by David Friedman. I am biased both because David's a friend and because I saw this book being chewed over in rasfc while he was writing it, but so far I'm throughly enjoying it. The style is very terse, which isn't going to be to everyone's taste, but it's appropriate to the POV character. That link goes to the Amazon page if you want more details.
Word count since last update: 450 on Friday, 350 on Saturday, 150 Sunday (because I spent much of the afternoon potting up tomatoes and seeds, and tidying the patio). 250 today.
The Dahle trimmer and the Brodart book jacket covers both arrived this afternoon, so I've been playing with the new toys. The trimmer cuts cleanly rather than tears, copes happily with light cardstock, and is accurate even with a stack of five sheets (at least on the straight blade). It's not quite as solid and no-nonsense as the pro grade models, but it is a major improvement over the not-cheap and nasty thing I bought from the local office supplies shed last year, and promptly took back for failure to actually do the job. The wavy edge blades look pretty, although they're less accurate and a little trickier to use. I now have a stack of bookmarks ready for Baycon. Definitely worth shelling out to get a decent machine. It's easy to swap the blades over; I just wish that the packing box was better designed to hold the spare blades safely or it included a storage box for the blades.
Pimpage 1: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine is experimenting with pdf distribution. The initial trial is with issue 22, which is available at a special low price of A$3, reflecting the lack of cover art and a couple of the stories. Note down the password you're given before clicking on the link, as the customer interface leaves something to be desired...
http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/orderpdf.htm
Pimpage 2: Currently working my way through Harald
, by David Friedman. I am biased both because David's a friend and because I saw this book being chewed over in rasfc while he was writing it, but so far I'm throughly enjoying it. The style is very terse, which isn't going to be to everyone's taste, but it's appropriate to the POV character. That link goes to the Amazon page if you want more details.Word count since last update: 450 on Friday, 350 on Saturday, 150 Sunday (because I spent much of the afternoon potting up tomatoes and seeds, and tidying the patio). 250 today.
The Dahle trimmer and the Brodart book jacket covers both arrived this afternoon, so I've been playing with the new toys. The trimmer cuts cleanly rather than tears, copes happily with light cardstock, and is accurate even with a stack of five sheets (at least on the straight blade). It's not quite as solid and no-nonsense as the pro grade models, but it is a major improvement over the not-cheap and nasty thing I bought from the local office supplies shed last year, and promptly took back for failure to actually do the job. The wavy edge blades look pretty, although they're less accurate and a little trickier to use. I now have a stack of bookmarks ready for Baycon. Definitely worth shelling out to get a decent machine. It's easy to swap the blades over; I just wish that the packing box was better designed to hold the spare blades safely or it included a storage box for the blades.