Convention Report will continue.. I’m just busy
Posted April 8th, 2008 by Howard TaylerI’m finishing up the Teraport Wars bonus story this week, and haven’t had the brain space to finish writing my Ad Astra convention report. I assure you, though, I’ll get around to it.
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April 8th, 2008 at 10:51 am
I understand what it is like to be that busy. So I’ll just wait until you have the time to find out the rest of the details about Ad Astra.
BTW I like Ventura, she reminds me of the Pocket Engineer, Cute, Sassy and small enough to fit in your pocket.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Take your time… :)
April 8th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
hmmm, bonus story finishing… I smell a new pre-order coming soon.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
No hurry, any time in the next fifteen minutes will be marvelous!
Okay, most kidding aside, take your time and do it right. . . Everyone who matters (and most of us who don’t) will be tickled puce and chartreuse to have yet another Schlock masterpiece to spend our money on.
Thanks for taking such great care of us,
D.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Today’s replaiting comment reminded me of an incident ages ago. Our systems were . . . less than tidy? The cables were an accident waiting to happen across the floor, but we all knew to walk light, okay? And it offended one of our visiting hardware techs, so he came in one night and added tiewraps and so forth. Made nice neat bundles of everything, routed out of our way.
Except the next morning, of course, the systems were locked up, and refused to come up. So we tore his pretty bundles out and spread the cables again – Voila! The systems started up nicely. We just left the cables spread out, and never had any problems, although neatniks shuddered whenever they walked into that computer room. Luckily, it was behind locked doors that didn’t let many people in.
Thanks for the memories.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Hah – I’m betting he coiled up all of the power leads with the network cabling, and fed induction into everything – especially with a lot of those cables probably being 10x the length they really needed to be, and in _coils_.
April 9th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Wait a minute – do you mean that monitors sitting on a table right in front of the computer rack don’t need 20 foot cables? But then what if someone wants to move them someday?
Yeah, I’m sure it was induction and cross-signalling, all with pitiful shielding (I’m not sure that group really understood shielding or grounding, but I’m a software type, and many hardware guys get upset when a software person talks about their stuff). I know he didn’t separate the power, monitor, and other cables, just bundled them all together, and there were indeed coils. But as he protested, it was out of our way – it just didn’t work any more.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:14 am
I took a peek at the bonus story yesterday and it is really cool.
Yet is wasn’t finished yet, so now I’m frustrated.
Why, WHY did I peek! Now I’m going to be nuts until I get the book!
Not that seeing the end of the story will necessarily stop me from being nuts…
April 9th, 2008 at 6:17 am
The bonus story is now all inked. It’s 11 pages long. In terms of length, the bonus stories look like this:
UNM: 17 rows – 4 pages plus one row.
TBB: 30 rows – 7 pages plus two rows.
ToH: 36 rows – 9 pages.
TPW: 43 rows and a footnote – 11 pages.
The TPW, UNM, and TBB bonus stories can be read in any order (as evidenced by the release schedule) but the TPW story comes first, chronologically. It tells of Schlock’s first trip off of his home world, and leads right up to the story found in UNM.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Yay! more bookies!
April 10th, 2008 at 7:34 am
So, we’re going to learn more about Uuna-Uuna-g’Thwap and Parhchintofleekybok?
April 10th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Plasma4TehWin, you called?
April 11th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Heh, your presence is, of course, always appreciated Bookworm. Just not quite as much as the presence of more bound Schlock. No offense, I am sure you understand. ;)