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February 27, 2011
News: The Etymology of Fire ePub Format
I've posted the first new short story that I've written in almost fiften years to the website. Vignettes don't count, but if they did, it's still something like nine years since the last short fiction. The new work is called Observation Time and can be found on the Fiction page. It's a short little time travel story that takes place in one room over the course of a couple of minutes. Inspired by the fact that nobody ever seems to remember the This American Life segment about the theoretical physicist who proved that time travel was possible. Oh, except maybe the writer/director of the movie Primer.
News: The Etymology of Fire ePub Format
The ePub version of The Etymology of Fire has been uploaded. Random stuff has delayed finishing The Magic Flute ePub file so I decided not to wait. I had the opportunity to work on the cover image for The Etymology of Fire, and it went a lot faster than I was expecting. Now, I just have to hope the ePub file looks okay. I don't have a smart phone or other portable reader so I'm going on a lot of luck and blind hope here. It looks okay on the desktop eBook reader that I've got. Next, finish The Magic Flute file. Then, work on a copy, complete with ISBN, for Lulu.com. That may take more time than I want to think about. Have to consider how much to charge and if I want to bother with other formats like Apple myself or just let Lulu deal with it. There's some philosophical stuff here. How much of the distribution process do I want to hand over to other people and like that.
February 26, 2011
Fuzzy Nation Not Quite so Irrational Part 3
For all I know, Little Fuzzy is in the public domain. For all I know, the estate approved the rewrite. For all I know, the book is good. Hugs and kisses all around. What do I know?
I'm just rhetorically howling "is nothing sacred" at the moon. Know the answer. This is just that thing that made me twig and howl.
Is it an adaptation? Is it before or after? Is it inspired by?
Is it a rewrite? Is it a re-imagining of a classic?
The question isn't "can you?" It is "should you?"
Hugs and kisses all around, right?
Sigh
February 25, 2011
Fuzzy Nation Irrational Rant Part 2
February 24, 2011
Fuzzy Nation
February 16, 2011
News: The Magic Flute PDF Format
Okay, technically neither news update is going to be posted until after midnight, but I'm not really concerned about that. Both The Magic Flute and The Etymology of Fire are now available in single-file PDF versions. Lots of last minute fixes were necessary, which is why I prepared both at the same time. The idea was that I would be able to quickly apply one fix to the other, and this strategy sort-of worked. Next step is to prepare both in eBook format.
February 15, 2011
News: The Etymology of Fire PDF Format
The Etymology of Fire is finally available as a single-file PDF. The Magic Flute is also ready, but it's basically midnight so I'm going to give it a separate news entry just for fun.
January 28, 2011
News: The Magic Flute HTML Format
That managed to take both longer and shorter than I expected. The point being that The Magic Flute has been converted to HTML format. Next step will be to work on the single file PDF for both The Etymology of Fire and The Magic Flute. Hopefully, it won't take forever. Time will tell. It's grant season at work.
January 23, 2011
Journal: Why Inception
The thing that really continues to entertain me about the movie Inception is how much people are still arguing over what it all means. Well, the argument may be over. People may have moved on, but since it is all on the internet, it just looks like people are still passionately debating the thing. Wonderful internet. You can't always go back, edit your post, and put everything in the past tense. So to speak.
I understand that people can feel so passionately about Inception that they've actually edited the movie in their heads. Going so far as to insist that the final token actually fell off the table, which didn't happen. I'm even guilty of this. The edited memory part. Not the token falling on camera part. From the moment the movie ended, I was convinced that you never actually saw the children's faces, which is not true. As I relatively recently discovered, you do get a real good luck at the kids faces. The fact that I was convinced otherwise is really cool and goes a long way toward telling you how I interpreted the ending.
I suppose I should point out that I don't really care what actually happened. Whether it can be definitively proven that the movie ended with Cobb still in a dream or the real world doesn't particularly interest me. The important thing to remember is that Inception is a movie set in dreams. Dreams have a tendency to be ambiguous and open to interpretation. So, it comes as absolutely no surprise to me that Inception has an ambiguous and open to interpretation ending. When done well, an ambiguous ending is really cool. It also keeps people talking about the movie, which can increase other people's interest in seeing it. Even seeing it again.
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January 22, 2011
News: The Etymology of Fire HTML Format
The Etymology of Fire has been converted to HTML format. It will return as a single file PDF, but first, I want to get The Magic flute converted to HTML. All part of this strange idea I have that the process will go faster if I convert by format rather than work.
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