Took about a week but I finally have time to update about King Tut! It wasn't too bad, though since it was the last 2 days of the exhibit, the place was PACKED, and consequently one couldn't always see the items as clearly or stay looking at them for as long as one might have liked. Since I was sick I brought lots of kleenex...
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grayness:
I like that the phrase "was sick" is used because it implies you may be better by this point. 
Glad you're on the map. Compound fracture of the femur to you! 
Glad you're on the map. Compound fracture of the femur to you! 
wtk10025:
Sounds like it was a decent expedition. Hope you really are feeling better.
Goddammit -- I barely recover from that last cold and now I seem to be getting a fresh one. My dad has a job working for a medical supply company and so he spends a lot of time at hospitals, I think he keeps picking things up from there then bringing 'em home to infect the rest of us. I'm trying to remedy this, and...
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wtk10025:
Hope Tut was a fine experience despite the head cold.
Commedia dell'Arte is already not going well, I'm having trouble getting performance space. Since the desire is to do it to participate in Commedia dell'Arte Day, it's necessary that the show be done on Feb. 25th. Unfortunately, that is a Friday, so everything is booked up.
I'm also in a bad mood because my dad made me buy lottery tickets again. I wish he would...
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I'm also in a bad mood because my dad made me buy lottery tickets again. I wish he would...
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grayness:
Yeah, you'd have better odds (although a lower payout) at roulette.., and that's a sucker's game. (In my opinion.)
It appears I'm going to be producing a commedia dell'arte play.
Commedia dell'Arte Day is on Feb. 25th so, I decided I should put up some of that money I've hoarded away to pay for a show. The only real expense is the costumes, and if I play the inamorata I can use my own clothes (I have an Avon Jupon gown that is suitable.)...
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Commedia dell'Arte Day is on Feb. 25th so, I decided I should put up some of that money I've hoarded away to pay for a show. The only real expense is the costumes, and if I play the inamorata I can use my own clothes (I have an Avon Jupon gown that is suitable.)...
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grayness:
printing ticket at home fee...?
How long will it be before there's a "not coming to the exhibit fee" ?
That one could be quite the source of revenue.
How long will it be before there's a "not coming to the exhibit fee" ?
That one could be quite the source of revenue.
I need to stop being too tired to work on translations.
tireoghain:
They have little spike shaped studs on them.
New Rocks.
The funny thing is that it was my Batman belt buckle that set the alarm thing off, not the shoes. I just encountered nazis is all.
Hope you have a good new year when it gets to you
New Rocks.
The funny thing is that it was my Batman belt buckle that set the alarm thing off, not the shoes. I just encountered nazis is all.
Hope you have a good new year when it gets to you
Gaaah! I ought to be doing something important like getting started on the next Beaumarchais translation or working on the ebook I want to have ready before the end of January, but no -- here I am tampering with those aStores again.
My current list of the things is as follows:
The Sweeney Todd Shoppe
The Commedia dell'Arte Bookstore
The Indio Products Store
The Lucky...
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My current list of the things is as follows:
The Sweeney Todd Shoppe
The Commedia dell'Arte Bookstore
The Indio Products Store
The Lucky...
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Merry Post-Christmas everyone!
The holiday went fairly well this year. The family had a bit more money this year than in the last several, so there were lots of presents and I think we actually used up all of our wrapping paper. I got a facial massager, an Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, an 18th century French dictionary (which has to be returned, though, because it's badly printed...
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The holiday went fairly well this year. The family had a bit more money this year than in the last several, so there were lots of presents and I think we actually used up all of our wrapping paper. I got a facial massager, an Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, an 18th century French dictionary (which has to be returned, though, because it's badly printed...
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politeanarchist:
Merry Xmas!
grayness:
I would probably do the same thing- I have a talent for navigating into awkward situations...
Well, my efforts to convert my latest publication to Amazon Kindle format is going poorly -- I once attempted another book and had pretty much the same problem, which is namely that illustrations come out looking like total crap. Maybe I'll try putting it up on Lulu instead, see if that goes better.
Meanwhile, I'm experimenting with selling Lucky Mojo Bags for New Years,...
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Meanwhile, I'm experimenting with selling Lucky Mojo Bags for New Years,...
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wtk10025:
I have no experience of Kindle, but I do notice that the illustrations in my iBooks copy of Pooh are certainly muddy. While this is at first a bit surprising for devices that are supposed to be so wonderfully graphics friendly (the iPad, anyway), but on second thought it may not be so strange that the book-dedicated applications have been really focused primarily on rendering text.
Allegedly the latest iBooks app is specifically meant to address illustrations. Frankly, the Pooh drawings still look a bit muddy to me, but maybe I'm just unrealistically picky. In any case, if iBooks has moved to specifically address illustration quality, will Kindle be far behind? I suspect not. The ebook wars are too hot for Kindle to leave the field for such advances to Apple only.
Your Kindle illustration upgrade may not be far off.
Allegedly the latest iBooks app is specifically meant to address illustrations. Frankly, the Pooh drawings still look a bit muddy to me, but maybe I'm just unrealistically picky. In any case, if iBooks has moved to specifically address illustration quality, will Kindle be far behind? I suspect not. The ebook wars are too hot for Kindle to leave the field for such advances to Apple only.
Your Kindle illustration upgrade may not be far off.
Had a weird dream in which the girls from The Sweetest Thing, Sex and the City -- and then gradually more and more characters from other sources, including the old Nickelodeon show Salute Your Shorts -- had somehow been mistaken for mutant supervillains by some organization which was going to catch them to do experiments on them, and so were being pursued for a very...
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wtk10025:
I would say this definitely qualifies as "weird."
It's amazing how boring it is, trying to translate costume design instruction. Then about 1/3rd of it needs to be left in French anyway -- the perruque la brigadiere, the robe l'anglaise, the habit la franaise, the fichu, and many other terms never seem to have developed true English equivalents.