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[links] Link salad shuffles towards Omaha, moaning
A reader reacts to my story “A Long Walk Home”
The Best of 2010 Steampunk Facebook Awards — In which I am recognized for my novella, The Baby Killers.
You Can Have My Double Space When You Pry it From My Cold, Dead Hands — A response to the recent spacing rant. (Thanks to shaolingrrl.)
Night and Day above Almost Planet Sounio — APOD with an image both thought-provoking and whimsical.
North Col of Mount Everest — Orbital photo of Everest. Wow.
Everyone Has Probably Worked This Out Already — Andrew Wheeler on the real meaning of the zombie apocalypse. And no, I hadn’t worked it out yet.
International Politics and Zombies — Umm… (Thanks to David Goldman.)
Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America’s Lunch — Watch out, Silicon Valley: China and India aren’t just graduating bad engineers and stealing intellectual property anymore. They’re fostering innovations that will shake the world. (Thanks to danjite.)
?otD: Zombies or vampires?
1/17/2011
Writing time yesterday: 2.5 hours (further revisions to the Sunspin outline)
Body movement: n/a (airport walking)
Hours slept: 5.75 hours (solid)
Weight: n/a (forgot)
Currently reading: Salamanca by Dean Francis Alfar
Posted: 4:43 am Mon January 17 2011 |
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Cora
January 17th, 2011 at 6:38 amNo, I hadn’t worked out the link between the zombie apocalypse and terrorism either, but it’s an interesting theory.
Answer of the day: Vampires all the way. Never was a zombie fan and am heartily sick of them now.
Steve Buchheit
January 17th, 2011 at 11:31 amThe double space issue is easily settled (and has been since “The Mac Is Not a Typewriter” by Robin Williams, 1995). You may have learned on a typewriter, but you’re not using one anymore. If you’re using a uni-spaced font 1) where did you find it and 2) let’s get with the 90s, shall we? In the past typesetters have quietly removed your double spacing without you ever knowing. Now that everyone is a typesetter, we’re trying to educate you (not you personally, but the public in general). Because it really is annoying. But if you persist, so be it. I’ll still make $75 an hour patiently removing them before the layout is finished. (said as the designer who has spent more time than necessary fixing double spacing and formatting for those who haven’t learned how to use tabs yet). Global find and replace sometimes doesn’t get them all (because of different word processors adding non-breaking spaces as the first space, which encodes differently, yadda yadda yadda).