Actions from pbaschMovable Type Pro 5.22020-06-11T23:31:50Zhttp://www.antipope.org/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=feed&_type=actions&blog_id=1&id=3210Commented on Roll the dice in Charlie's Diarytag:www.antipope.org,2020:/charlie/blog-static//1.4172#20947552020-06-11T22:31:50Zpbasch
This reminds me of an image in (I think) a Top Ten comic (Alan Moore/Gene Ha), where everyone is a superhero, and a kid (with a mask and a cape) is reading a Business Man comic.
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Commented on I ain't dead in Charlie's Diarytag:www.antipope.org,2020:/charlie/blog-static//1.4170#20923102020-05-14T21:31:36Zpbasch
I get it. But thanks for your wonderful books! I can't wait for the next Laundry Files and Merchant Princes books.
I'm freighted (fraught?) with anxiety and out of love with Americaâ„¢. Doing preliminary research on my father's citizenship to see what I might be entitled to. I know, why isn't it obvious? Thanks, WWII.
Anyway, I'm glad you're well and sorry you don't feel well.
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Commented on Spoiler Thread in Charlie's Diarytag:www.antipope.org,2014:/charlie/blog-static//1.3769#19568242014-07-19T18:42:58Zpbasch
Loved the book, sad about the ending... A genuine cliffhanger, in that we (at least I) really want them to be together in their dangerous cruel universe.
We've got the hanging threads of Spooky, Angleton's and Old George's suspension/transportation (no bodies being found = characters returning), the violin's power-upping, in addition to Bob and Mo's relationship suddenly being unbalanced.
Can't wait for the next one! I also wonder if anyone has talked about a Laundry files TV series. What a great 1-hour! Of course, they'd probably do that British things of a season being just 3 or 6 episodes, instead of the American 23 (shudder; I think 12 is perfect) but even so, how great would that be.
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Commented on Why Microsoft Word must Die in Charlie's Diarytag:www.antipope.org,2013:/charlie/blog-static//1.3665#17254682013-10-13T21:37:17Zpbasch
Very interesting article, and comment stream full of interesting info! I do Word for a living. I got very expert at Word 2003, and don't think the ribbon adds a thing, ease-of-use-wise. But I agree that the whole edifice is tottering and weird. Numbering is peculiar, and only seems to work if you invoke dread Cthulhu. But, then again, I do things with it I would never have dreamed of doing with WordPerfect, or DisplayWrite, or Wang, or any of them.
In what I do (gov't proposals) we sometimes use InDesign, which is said to be a huge improvement over Word, but our writing teams hate just handing over text. They want to format, however much we discourage it. And they have more clout than we do. They are also concerned with page count, and if they just hand over plain text, they have no idea until I'm done how close they are.
Since they know how to use it, and I know how to use it, it gets used. But, yeah, the ribbon is an abomination.
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