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9/7/2010 10:39:16 AM
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Where are you in your writing?
Daniel_Hatch
Posts 84
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IMHO, not checking your word count is like flying an airplane without looking at your instruments or playing the piano without counting the beat.
But I've got more than 30 years of newspapering behind me, where inch-counts and deadlines are the name of the game.
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9/7/2010 8:19:21 AM
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October 2010 ... Now that's what I call a cover!
Dave Truesdale
Posts 115
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October issue reviewed here:
http://www.tangentonline.com/print--monthly-reviewsmenu-259/analog-reviewsmenu-54/1419-analog-october-2010
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9/7/2010 1:35:03 AM
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Where are you in your writing?
Juliette Wade
Posts 609
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David, I know about the word count at the bottom. I ignore it, because I like to let my manuscripts "breathe" - they gain and lose words alternately. My only point was that if I counted on that tally always to go up to see whether I was making progress, I'd start tearing my hair out, lol.
Good luck with the writing contest!
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9/6/2010 10:14:17 PM
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Question about hypothetical future utopia...
Pc-also
Posts 6
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PS: I remain astonished. Fox drives the Left so batty! They are just TOO -- not conservative, not inaccurate, but destructively evil!!!
Thank (not God but) Darwin for the heroic (and comprehensive, unbiased) Daily Kos!
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9/6/2010 10:09:00 PM
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Question about hypothetical future utopia...
Pc-also
Posts 6
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In my opinion and observation, Obama's best most effective spokesman is not that goofball in the White House press room, it's Ann Compton of ABC News. Bill, since the HuffPo is too -- brr! -- centrist for you, please tell us who does fit the bill. The Nation? Pacifica/KPFA radio? Or ???
edited by Pc-also on 9/6/2010
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9/6/2010 9:59:11 PM
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topic:
Avatar - The Movie
Pc-also
Posts 6
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Finally saw avatar today, the rereleased version. Expected a sellout crowd but in fact the theater was totally empty! Just my party of five.
Did enjoy it a lot. Utterly derivative and predictable yet what a 3-D thrill ride.
My son says the only people he knows who do not like it are fellow Marines.
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9/6/2010 6:57:53 PM
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Question about hypothetical future utopia...
Bill Gleason
Posts 680
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Utopia cannot exist without everyone having the right of self-expression, but I think we must come to grips with the realities of the new media.
There are two big lies happening right now. First, that Fox is fair and balanced. Mind you, I don't have any problem with them spouting right-wing propaganda, but just call it what it is. Deny the Koch/Murdoch/Fox Tea Party Supply Store if you like, but the rest of us really should see what is happening.
Which brings me to the second lie, this one more insidious. MSNBC and HuffPo are NOT the balancing equivalent to Fox. Yes, there are blogs and blog sites that scream the truth from the internet's mountaintops, but they don't have the weight of Koch/Murdoch/Fox behind them. And like Obama, too many of them aspire toward some nebulous middle, forgetting that if you look for a middle as one pole moves right, you must ergo look right.
Again, if these news outlets want to be led by the nose from "story" to "story" and "opinion" to "opinion," as hand-fed to them by the only side really playing in this game, then fine on them. Read a smattering of headlines on HuffPo on an average day and most of it is (or at least sounds) anti-Obama. With rare exceptions, MSNBC spends the day propagating the story Chuck Todd prestidigitated whenever/however. Maybe they'll toss in a Rasmussen poll to further accentuate the story of the day. Rasmussen is a tool, you know this, right?
What Chuck doesn't get is that he is scrambling for the crumbs of a crumbling democracy, the biggest rat at the crumb pile. I don't know if that's center-right or just pathetically adrift, but let us not pretend that there is a serious left-wing counterpoint to Koch/Murdoch/Fox. Given this, we on the left must not let ourselves be sucked into the narrative de jour. Most assuredly not now, since we are being fed pablum from what Sarah Palin did correctly label the lamestream media.
Along the same lines I just read a review of a book worth reading, both the review and the book.
http://www.newdeal20.org/2010/09/02/a-call-for-the-new-possible-19054/
edited by Bill Gleason on 9/6/2010
edited by Bill Gleason on 9/6/2010
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9/6/2010 6:36:16 PM
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A Little Late
John Thiel
Posts 1325
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That's SURPRISING STORIES for September. Seems we had a breakdown here and were able to get the issue together only at the last moment. But there's a treat to be found in the newest issue, which we have finally gotten up. It's to be found at http://surprisingstories.dcwi.com
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9/6/2010 10:32:03 AM
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Teme Work
Pawyilee
Posts 927
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This thread is about the Next Step in Evolution: A Technical Life Form That Passes on Knowledge and Experience.
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9/6/2010 8:08:19 AM
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Index Information: READ ME
anthonynowinski
Posts 1
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cool
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9/5/2010 9:25:47 PM
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November 2010 Analog
Pc-also
Posts 6
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Great story brad! Replete with parables. The hero cannot accept "old" faith yet is literally reborn, then soon, all humanity.
Liked "howl," and could not guess the ending, even close.
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9/5/2010 9:19:15 PM
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Antibacterial soap bad?
Pc-also
Posts 6
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Dr. Bronners tea tree oil soap is even better than their peppermint.
(sent from my iPod touch, somehow.)
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9/5/2010 9:11:18 PM
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Jim Baen's Universe lives on
Pc-also
Posts 6
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And like I said over there--six stories a year? Noooo problem!
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9/5/2010 8:05:04 PM
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Jim Baen's Universe lives on
David Marshall
Posts 72
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Whoa, deja vu again. 
I swear I just saw this over at the Asimov's forum.
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9/5/2010 8:03:59 PM
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Jim Baen's Universe lives on
David Marshall
Posts 72
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Whoa, deja vu again.
I swear I just saw this over at the Asimov's forum.
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9/5/2010 8:02:54 PM
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topic:
Where are you in your writing?
David Marshall
Posts 72
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"I don't count words" Juliette.
No. But Microsoft knows that word count can be depressing, so they count the words for you, and display the count at the bottom of the screen.
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9/5/2010 8:01:19 PM
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Where are you in your writing?
David Marshall
Posts 72
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Salvaging several sequential short stories so soon some semblance sequential story some 80,000 words for writing contest.
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9/5/2010 6:00:03 PM
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topic:
A Complete ASF/Analog Excel Index
tlgalenson
Posts 1
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If downloading becomes an issue I run a large download website and will be happy to make it available for free (actually my whole download system is free so its not that big a deal).
Tom Miller, Sysop
www.ChatNFiles.com
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9/5/2010 1:30:05 PM
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NOAA weather site
Dr. Sardonicus
Posts 553
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It may not have been the "hottest summer on record," but from August 4-14, 1896 there was a heat wave in NYC that killed (by some estimates) around 1500 people. Temperatures were in the 90's, with no wind and humidity high enough that the low temperatures stayed above 70. And those were the official temperatures. People living in tenements and at street level endured (or failed to endure) temperatures above 120 degrees.
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9/5/2010 11:45:51 AM
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Antibacterial soap bad?
Dr. Sardonicus
Posts 553
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Yeah, after posting I looked up sardonicism in my $5.00 Merriam-Webster Second Unabridged. It's in there. There are still tens, if not hundreds of thousands of words in the vocabulary I still don't know. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, the first known use of sardonicism was in 1926, so it's a newcomer.
I stated my basic objections to the whole idea of antibacterial soaps in items (3) and (4) of my post of 5/5/2009 11:44:32 AM to this thread. I doubt there's enough tea-tree oil in Dr. Bronner's soap to make it much of an antiseptic; I mainly started using it because I liked the scent. After the reformulation, the scents of the old standbys changed, and I just couldn't get used to that. Tea-tree oil soap only came out after the reformulation, so -- no problem.
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