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Jun. 6th, 2006 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesNo writing done today, although I'm feeling significantly less yuck than I did yesterday as long as I don't try to talk (talking *hurts*, coughing's even worse, so I'm trying to avoid those activities). I'll probably be up to writing tomorrow if I get another reasonable night's sleep.
One of the books I bagged from the clearout![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brooksmoses and suzimoses had a couple of weeks back was Larry Niven's "Neutron Star". It turned out that although I'd read the title story of the collection, I'd never read the collection itself. Finished it tonight, having been reading it on and off over the last couple of weeks (usually while the new laptop was being prodded and thus unavailable for work). There's some cracking good stuff in there. Must try to write a review tomorrow.
I ordered some stuff with my cover art on it from Cafepress when they had a shopowners' 20% discount a couple of weeks ago. The parcel arrived yesterday, delivered by a UPS driver who dropped it on the doorstep and ran off without bothering to ring the doorbell, which I am not impressed with. The mugs with the Syndicate montage look extremely good, although obviously I've no idea yet how they'll stand up to washing. The black shirt with the Mindscan art was so awful I'd be sending it back if it wasn't that when I set up the shop they did warn that the black shirt was still experimental and they didn't guarantee results. The colours are dull, heavily posterised, and not very accurate even so -- my best description would be that it looks as if it's already been through the wash a couple of dozen times. I think I'll take that one out of the shop. The white teeshirt with the Spindrift art looks much better, with no posterisation, but is still rather faded looking. I'm afraid I can't recommend either teeshirt for photographic reproduction, although the sort of flat colour logo suitable for storing in gif format would probably be all right. I have a Loose Id teeshirt with Loowis the Loose Id and the other company logos, and although it did start fading in the wash fairly quickly it looked pretty nice when it was new, much nicer than either of the two new ones.
One of the books I bagged from the clearout
brooksmoses and suzimoses had a couple of weeks back was Larry Niven's "Neutron Star". It turned out that although I'd read the title story of the collection, I'd never read the collection itself. Finished it tonight, having been reading it on and off over the last couple of weeks (usually while the new laptop was being prodded and thus unavailable for work). There's some cracking good stuff in there. Must try to write a review tomorrow.I ordered some stuff with my cover art on it from Cafepress when they had a shopowners' 20% discount a couple of weeks ago. The parcel arrived yesterday, delivered by a UPS driver who dropped it on the doorstep and ran off without bothering to ring the doorbell, which I am not impressed with. The mugs with the Syndicate montage look extremely good, although obviously I've no idea yet how they'll stand up to washing. The black shirt with the Mindscan art was so awful I'd be sending it back if it wasn't that when I set up the shop they did warn that the black shirt was still experimental and they didn't guarantee results. The colours are dull, heavily posterised, and not very accurate even so -- my best description would be that it looks as if it's already been through the wash a couple of dozen times. I think I'll take that one out of the shop. The white teeshirt with the Spindrift art looks much better, with no posterisation, but is still rather faded looking. I'm afraid I can't recommend either teeshirt for photographic reproduction, although the sort of flat colour logo suitable for storing in gif format would probably be all right. I have a Loose Id teeshirt with Loowis the Loose Id and the other company logos, and although it did start fading in the wash fairly quickly it looked pretty nice when it was new, much nicer than either of the two new ones.
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Date: 2006-06-07 08:19 am (UTC)And aren't faded tee-shirts IN? LOL