I’m at Half-Price books, waiting for them to total up my latest drop-off, wandering through the store, and notice they have two Melissa M Snodgrass books. Oh wow, I think to myself, don’t see those very often. And then it dawns on me, I recognize the books because they are ones I’ve sold them. It got me wondering, how long it takes them to get rid of everything I’ve sold to them, and how long till they turn a profit on me, if ever.
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Sunday, October 17th, 2010Ideas from Sci-Fi
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010A researcher has ‘conceptually designed’ (whatever that means), a compressed air powered motorcycle. I don’t remember which author came up with it, but some sci-fi author I’ve read before had an idea for using air compressed to near-degenerate matter, as fuel for surface-to-orbit shuttles, to avoid polluting the atmosphere.
Missed Opportunity
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010I’m watching Y&R, and they have a scene in a book store. In the background behind one of the characters, they had a book cover prominently displayed, for “Bumpy the Camel”. I’ve never been more disapointed in not being advertised to. OK, that’s a little hyperbolic, but still, I can’t believe no one has written a book with that title yet. Maybe I will.
One day there was a camel. A camel named Bumpy.
“I’m not bumpy
I am humpy” he cried, whenever someone called him “Bumpy”. So naturally, all the animals called him Bumpy.
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Finally Found
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Finally found the right search terms to find another childhood book series I only half remembered. Turns out it was “Danny Dunn“. I could really only remember two stories’ plots, and that only pieces. One was a robot dragonfly, and the other was a cold ray that they used to cause rain, IIRC. I was about ready to spend an askme, but for once, there really was a previous question that applied to my current question, and the answer was revealed.
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I love the library
Monday, September 28th, 2009I’m trying to read all the tom swift jr books, but the last one, Cosmotron Express, goes for $80-$150 on ebay.
Enter the SPL, who thanx to the magic of interlibrary loan, found me a perfectly readable copy.
J-Pod: Book vs TV
Monday, November 3rd, 2008In one of those odd places where, if I’d known the author of the original book, I probably wouldn’t have ever given the TV show enough of a chance, there lies the CBC produced J-Pod and the book of the same name by Douglas Copland.
I love the CBC. Compared to American TV, I think it’s far more witty, capable of poking fun at foibles on all sides of the political fence. When I discovered they had a show about computer programmers who did drugs and had sex, I was almost sold. When I found out one of their character’s drug-of-chocie was robotusin, I knew I had to watch it all. Add in the fact that Alan Thicke plays a hard-drinkin, oblivious, wanna-be actor, opposite an amazing Sherry Miller, playing a pot-growing just-a-little-nonsense mother, and it all sorts of delicious comedy gravy. I was more than a little annoyed when they ended the season with a cliff-hanger.
Wanting to know how it all works out, without having to wait, and hope that the tv show gets a 2nd season, since I had some extra audible credits, I bought the unabridged audiobook version, and started listening. It was pretty obvious early on, that there were some significant differences between the book and the show. One of the characters is completely missing from the TV version, and more importantly-to-me, alot of the characters turn out to be much more developed and involved, in the TV version. And the book is FULL of fake-disses of Douglas Copland, whereas I don’t think he’s mentioned once on TV. In general, I think the TV version is much better. It seems odd to my American eyes/ears, how the book has more product placement than the TV show. And I hate the book’s happy ending shtick. I much prefer the extended consequences of the TV version, though now, I’m just as stuck for finding out how it all ends.
Dear CBC, you so better have approved a second season of j-pod.