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JA-- too funny!!! Has Starbucks not made it over there yet?Splitter- Small, medium and large are not fancy enough to say... LOL. though, i admit at first I was like you and wonder why they can't just say small. BUT if you go there and ask for a small they will give you a tall.. they get it there. LOL
And I can forgive you for drinking your coffee regular. :) I drink it at home regular (well i add milk and sweetner) but it never tastes as good as SB... i have my eye on this fancy coffee machine that makes lattes at home... it doesn't fit my budget. 2,000 is just too much. lol.
But i have my eye out for a cheaper one....
C.S. Splitter wrote: "I want to try Vegemite. I hear it's like beer and peanut butter.Splitter"
A friend brought us some Cheesy Vegemite. We loved it so much we went out and bought some cheesy Marmite - not quite the same, but almost.
Emma wrote: "If blogs work like normal websites, it's about keeping the content up to date. Google send out little bots that check the pages of your site periodically to see if anything has been changed or adde..."Pimp my Website...
What do readers expect to find on an author's website? I now see the merit in doing updates, but wonder if there is a need for a blog/news page on the website?
Would be interested in reader feedback.
Thanks
www.just4kix.jimdo.com
Jan wrote: "Emma wrote: "If blogs work like normal websites, it's about keeping the content up to date. Google send out little bots that check the pages of your site periodically to see if anything has been ch..."As a reader, I love the news and blog section of an authors site. I like to hear their updates on works in progress or just what's going on in their world.
@ JennThanks. Perhaps I should add a news page. I was also considering offering a free PDF of one of my books on the website. I would change the book every couple of weeks. Do you think this would interest readers? Do many people like reading PDF's?
i think most people like PDF's because some e-readers support the formats and you can read them on a PC. this is a great idea!
I think it would work, Jan.However, it's not hard to convert PDF's to other formats like MOBI and ePub that cover the vast majority of eReaders.
I am sending out my second book to the beta readers in multiple formats so they can use whichever one suits them.
Splitter
Cambria wrote: "i think most people like PDF's because some e-readers support the formats and you can read them on a PC. this is a great idea!"Thanks. Perhaps I'll start tomorrow with
will have to remember to send the cover as well.
Jan wrote: "@ JennThanks. Perhaps I should add a news page. I was also considering offering a free PDF of one of my books on the website. I would change the book every couple of weeks. Do you think this wou..."
I loathe PDF files cause I do most all my reading and correspondence by my phone so PDF files are hard to read as the print is small.
Sure I can enlarge it then I'll be scrolling all over the place.
But that's just me and I'm "special"
C.S. Splitter wrote: "I want to try Vegemite. I hear it's like beer and peanut butter.Splitter"
As an Aussie, Splitter, I think you'll find, (1) Vegemite is an acquired taste (as in acquired very young, before taste buds have properly matured); and (2) it tastes nothing like either beer, peanut butter, or any combination of the two.
If you can think over-salted axle-grease, that's probably closer.
There was a tale we used to tell overseas visitors, that it's made from kangaroos' ear-wax, but I'm not sure that's right.
ROFl, Phil, now I really want to try a bite. Or maybe just a sniff. Splitter
I'm not sure i will try veemite after all. Gag.
C.S. Splitter wrote: "I adore strong espresso. I want to wave the little cup under my nose and feel my heart race just from the fumes.There is a coffe shop in Rehobeth (not even going to try to spell it) that made a ..."
good tip splitter. And cinnamon makes everything taste better.
Don't do it, Cambria!There's two things you need to know about Vegemite.
1) We shipped all our convicts to Australia.
2) Vegemite was invented there as a punishment.
Though personally I feel making all the convicts stay here and us going over to Australia was the way it should have happened. London or OZ? You're winning on that one, Phil!!
Zero degrees C outside yesterday morning. Though admittedly it was at 5am and looked a lot like night. Bet that's not the case in Oz...
JAC
Actually I did cinammon on mushrooms the other day by accident (brown spice in a jar, just wrong one!) and it was unexpectedly delish. Can recommend - odd but good.JAC
J.A. wrote: "Don't do it, Cambria!There's two things you need to know about Vegemite.
1) We shipped all our convicts to Australia.
2) Vegemite was invented there as a punishment.
Though personally I f..."
Correction, JA -- we didn't get all your convicts. Some of them stayed and became Parliamentarians.
You're right though, about the climate. It's warming into late spring here, though current anticipation is for another damp summer like last year. La Nina seems to be building up again in mid-Pacific. After 6 pm and the sun has just set.
Touche' Phil! Some of the worst ones, for definite! In fact maybe it's all spin and the good guys ~~DID escape over there, leaving the bad'uns here to tell whatever story they thought best!
How's the new book going on? Is it behaving?
J.
J.A. wrote: "Touche' Phil! Some of the worst ones, for definite! In fact maybe it's all spin and the good guys ~~DID escape over there, leaving the bad'uns here to tell whatever story they thought best!
..."
Don't think anyone can win on the question of which country has the worst/most crims. There are lots of candidates.
Books 2 and 3 are finished, subject to any further suggestions by JournalStone. Now picking up where I left off on the next series, a fantasy about the earliest kings of Iran. Hope the current political climate doesn't ruin things, because I find the stories fascinating. Remember the epic of Sohrab and Rustum?
COOOL! We did a school play about Sohrab and Rustum when I was about 13 which the 6th form had written. We had a superb warscene with two opposing armies and chants and broomstick spears and painted our own cardboard shields and big masks and everything! I had a little solo bit where I challenged (and got killed horribly by) Sohrab. Who was unexpectedly ginger but I quite fancied so was well up for a warscene with him.(What larks!)
Haven't remembered that in years...
Sounds like your stuff will be really interesting, Phil, will look fwd to that.
JAC
J.A. wrote: "COOOL! We did a school play about Sohrab and Rustum when I was about 13 which the 6th form had written. We had a superb warscene with two opposing armies and chants and broomstick spears and pain..."
Thanks, JA, I'll dedicate it to you.
I've been fascinated with Persian/Iranian tales since I read a Leslie Charteris story (one of The Saint novels) years ago, where the hero quoted from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. I bought a translation, and still find inspiration in it from time to time. That and Khalil Ghibran.
Seconded! Did you ever read the Omar Khayyam take-off in Pratchett? Not hysterical but agreeably amusing...LOVE Khalil Gibran though - my sister is an excellent soprano and when she was younger used to sing at weddings a lot. My mum did a setting of a bit of Gibran to a most wonderful jazz tune and people still remember that fondly (it's the "To be together you were born" bit.
Though obv, in that case she was not 'singing in the wilderness'...
JAC
Talking of S&R, what was the princess's name in that? I remember her as Katharine but that was the prettiest girl in school who got the part (and doesn't sound specially persian!) so guessing that's not necessarily correct....JAC
J.A. wrote: "Don't do it, Cambria!There's two things you need to know about Vegemite.
1) We shipped all our convicts to Australia.
2) Vegemite was invented there as a punishment.
Though personally I f..."
Bah ah ha ha ha ha ha h ah ahahahaaha
And yes, cinnamon makes everything better!!!
Congrats on finishing up those books Phil!!!! I wish i comment about Iraq and such but I know nothing about it. :)
J.A. wrote: "Talking of S&R, what was the princess's name in that? I remember her as Katharine but that was the prettiest girl in school who got the part (and doesn't sound specially persian!) so guessing that'..."She was Tahmineh, daughter of the King of Samengan.
Cambria wrote: "Congrats on finishing up those books Phil!!!! I wish i comment about Iraq and such but I know nothing about it. :)"Thanks, Cambria. Sadly, our Western education systems seem to ignore Persia's rich and varied history and literature almost completely.
Yep, and it baffles me as where did they think the 1001nights came from, and Scheherezade and all the good stuff??Mind for years I had no idea Persia was actually Iran/Iraq, it was just this magical fairy-tale place you read about. I was quite confused about sherbet though.
JAC
J.A. wrote: "Yep, and it baffles me as where did they think the 1001nights came from, and Scheherezade and all the good stuff??Mind for years I had no idea Persia was actually Iran/Iraq, it was just this ma..."
Did you know Project Gutenberg has published Arabian Nights?
Really?....I'm partial to a bit of Aladdin, I may wander over and investigate!
(See, Cambria, you knew more Iraqi / Iranian folklore than you realised...!)
JAC
But they didn't have Robin Williams in Ancient Persia!(Can you imagine?! heheheheh)
JAC
I could use a bit more community myself here on Goodreads, dont get me wrong you guys are great, Im just trying to get a poetry or horror group interested but none of em sound appealing..I left a group recently cause the people were rude to me. With Halloween around the corner I just wish a rush of people would be like ooh his book is a must read!
Justin wrote: "I could use a bit more community myself here on Goodreads, dont get me wrong you guys are great, Im just trying to get a poetry or horror group interested but none of em sound appealing..I left a g..."Some people can be mean.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience but glad it wasn't from us.
We wish you the best of luck!!!
Jenn aka Texas Long Hair wrote: "Justin wrote: "I could use a bit more community myself here on Goodreads, dont get me wrong you guys are great, Im just trying to get a poetry or horror group interested but none of em sound appeal..."Thanks Jenn. And nah you guys are awesome, I enjoy this group!
Hey, I'm not AWOL. Okay, tecnically I am, but we're on day 7 in CT with no phone, no lights, no heat, no water...it's the apacolypse! Don't know if you heard of the freak snow storm here. Anyhoo...I got on line for a just a few minutes so thought I'd check in and say hey...but it'll be a few more days before I check in again. Check out my blog for more deets if you care.http://dalesplace-dale.blogspot.com/2...
WOW! That's a long time. Y'all be safe!Splitter
Dale, I heard about it and noticed it b/c I'm from Massachusetts originally and lived in the Connecticut River Valley (Pioneer Valley in the Berkshires) for 18 yrs so I knew those 30" in 3 hr snowfalls well :) We'd find the snow at waist height when we'd open the front door and shovel out (because you HAVE TO keep your shovels INSIDE the house...unless you're an idiot, then you keep them outside to get buried) and go next door to shovel out your neighbor who joins you in shoveling out the next one and so on and so forth. We could usually get the whole street done before lunch, then it was time to break out the plows. That's when I'd go home :) Yeah, I'm a lazy bum,Sorry to hear you're without power/water and other "necessities" of life but at least these days there's 3G for the phone right? LOL!!
Dale wrote: "Hey, I'm not AWOL. Okay, tecnically I am, but we're on day 7 in CT with no phone, no lights, no heat, no water...it's the apacolypse! Don't know if you heard of the freak snow storm here. Anyhoo......"we are thinking of you Dale!!!!
oh dear....take care and keep safe, Dale!JAC
Dale, be safe!!! We're thinking of you!!!
I'm baaa-aaack! We got our power last weekend, but no phone or internet until yesterday. I feel so disconnected! And Sarah...where I live we don't get a cell phone signal either...and I think it was 4 days before AT&T cell towers were working (yes, even those things got messed up...not just the power lines went down...the power sub stations got damaged as well). So we were totally out of commission...it was the weirdest thing...it was about 3 days until we got any news at all about what was happening any where; it took them that long to plow us out, what with all the downed trees and wires and telephone poles. The funny thing is...it's been so warm since that storm, that all the snow has melted and you'd never know anything had been amiss...except for the piles and piles of chopped up trees along the sides of the roads that would do any beaver community proud!
Dale wrote: "I'm baaa-aaack! We got our power last weekend, but no phone or internet until yesterday. I feel so disconnected! And Sarah...where I live we don't get a cell phone signal either...and I think it wa..."SO GLAD YOU ARE SAFE AND BACK!!!
Now get to work, jk lol
There is a coffe shop in Rehobeth (not even going to try to spell it) that made a Vietnamese espresso with cinnamon. I remember it to this day.
Btw, when making coffee at home, the finer the grind the stronger the coffee.
Splitter