C.J. Cherryh's Blog, page 176
August 7, 2010
thoughts on a tourist accident in the Grand Canyon…
…and a teen was very, very lucky. He fell 75 feet, and is in 'good' condition in hospital, after having to be lifted out by rescue chopper.
There is, incidentally, a sign near the rim that says that that chopper ride is somewhere around 30,000 dollars, and you will be billed.
I have a book to recommend: it's Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon. Fascinating account of the effect the Canyon has on people, among other things, plus the history of the place. We had it for reading on car trips, ...
August 6, 2010
This from OSG via Pub Weekly: Dorchester Romances goes all e-book…
The Link
They're about the first regular NY publisher to shift, but one doubts they'll be the last. Look at the rate at which this news is hitting the world.
Up at 5:30 am to work in the yard…
OSG brought us some newspaper, with which we covered the big weed/dirt/lawn scrapings pile and have poured on mulch and water…it's about 8′ wide and about 20 feet long, and above knee high. This was a good morning's work…before work. Back to the keyboard. At least that weed-zone is handled until next year, at which time we hope it will just be a nice pile of useable good dirt.
Bumblebees have occupied one of the piles: I'm thinking of wet-newspapering and mulching that, in the theory the bees ...
August 5, 2010
the word you want in phones is 'full duplex' as best I can figure.
We got some phones from Costco a few years ago that have driven me nuts. My idea of a phone conversation, or any reasonable conversation, has two sides to it. If you do have a full duplex phone one side can give normal conversational clues to another person. In a semi duplex phone, one side can monologue forever without your being able to get in an "Ahem!" until you can finally catch them breathing, because only one side CAN talk at a time: transmission is not two-way. I am never, ever...
August 4, 2010
Barnes and Noble up for sale.
here
It's getting stranger out there…and just wait til Amazon snaps it up.
Looks as if the oil leak in the Gulf is stopped…crossing fingers.
This is not the biggest leak that has ever hit the oceans: the biggest was when Saddam Hussein sabotaged the Kuwaiti oil field. And there was a massive leak in Mexican waters, there was the Exxon Valdez, and there is, almost continually, the abysmal mess in Nigeria, where people attempt to deal with oil with low-tech, healthwise lethal means …not to mention what gets spilled into Nigerian waters.
The demand for oil and its profits have made for some very bad decisions. Many of them we can't d...
Closed Circle is still turning up bugs in odd places…can you help us out?
We're still getting errors like "Rendering of template gallery-wp-eStore.php failed" —we do know about that one: thank you, Ed. That's occurring on my stuff, Jane's, and Lynn's.
But if others of you have time today, kind of randomly prowl Closed Circle and look around; report any bugs like that to us. It was, due to having two administrators operating and implementing at the same moment, one involving a software upgrade, and the other a template/formatting adjustment, a particularly buggy...
August 3, 2010
A wee bit of trouble with the Closed Circle site…
Trying to run some site changes involving improved navigation and display happened (cosmic luck) to exactly correspond with Lynn's update of the WP software….this comedy of errors has resulted in some artifacts on the CC site. It's functional, and the info is there, and it can be read, but there are a few glitches that we are working on—this time without two sets of major changes going in from two different Administrators at the same exact instant.
August 2, 2010
solar mass ejection headed our way: pretty spectacular: watch for aurorae…
We're in for a solar storm. Should arrive on Aug 3rd, roughly, with possibility for auroral display for those of you in the right latitudes; and I hope the astronauts on the space station get their repair done ASAP and get battened down safely.
