Brrrrrrrrr
It snowed all day today. I think we should vote winter off the island...
The printing press called today (meaning the man at the press, of course, not the press itself, though that would have been pretty cool) and informed me that the proof of my book was ready. (FYI, this book is an assignment in my print publishing class. No, I'm not published yet, at least not any books. There will only be one copy of this book.) So one of my friends from work kindly drove me up to the press and I got to see the first inkling of what the book will look like. The cover got a little messed up (they forgot to set "Simulate Overprinting" in the Acrobat options) but they'll fix it and the rest looked splendid. Better than I expected, even. They said it'll be done in a week or so.
Only three more days till Narnia. I'm going to see it on Saturday with all of my colleagues. (Um, "colleagues" is a fun word but we're just a bunch of college students so "fellow workers" would be more accurate. :)) Having loved the Narnia books since childhood, I do hope that they do as good a job with the movie as Peter Jackson did with Lord of the Rings, but we'll have to see. If it's good then I hope they do all seven books; if not, just one is enough, thank you very much. :)
I was talking with a friend tonight about how nice it would be if one could say "Accio keys" like in Harry Potter and have your keys fly to your hand (ditto for cell phone and anything else small that tends to get lost). Maybe if you hooked up a GPS transmitter to your pocket and had some kind of supermagnetism... :) On a more practical note (yet still in the imaginative realm, of course), my friend mentioned her idea for UV-coating the edges of contact lenses so you could find them easily when they get lost. (You couldn't coat the whole thing or it would get in the way of your sight.) Glow-in-the-dark contacts would be cool but would be rather freaky at night. :) She also has an idea to put an oil-based layer on the outside of windshields, so that the ice will be repelled and won't form. No more scraping off windshields. That got me thinking: is there some cheap way to prevent ice from forming on sidewalks and roads? Salt kind of works but it doesn't do much good for the local soil, and the ice still forms. Heating could work but you'd have to have a lot of energy to run it. There's got to be a way...
Finally, in my writing class today the teacher mentioned that in the American Psychological Association (or maybe it's the Psychiatric association -- something like that), there's a policy along the lines of "Seeing visions, hearing voices, or feeling impressions to do things are psychoses...except for Mormons." Really. (Well, I'm not 100% sure, but even if it's not, it's a great story. :))
The printing press called today (meaning the man at the press, of course, not the press itself, though that would have been pretty cool) and informed me that the proof of my book was ready. (FYI, this book is an assignment in my print publishing class. No, I'm not published yet, at least not any books. There will only be one copy of this book.) So one of my friends from work kindly drove me up to the press and I got to see the first inkling of what the book will look like. The cover got a little messed up (they forgot to set "Simulate Overprinting" in the Acrobat options) but they'll fix it and the rest looked splendid. Better than I expected, even. They said it'll be done in a week or so.
Only three more days till Narnia. I'm going to see it on Saturday with all of my colleagues. (Um, "colleagues" is a fun word but we're just a bunch of college students so "fellow workers" would be more accurate. :)) Having loved the Narnia books since childhood, I do hope that they do as good a job with the movie as Peter Jackson did with Lord of the Rings, but we'll have to see. If it's good then I hope they do all seven books; if not, just one is enough, thank you very much. :)
I was talking with a friend tonight about how nice it would be if one could say "Accio keys" like in Harry Potter and have your keys fly to your hand (ditto for cell phone and anything else small that tends to get lost). Maybe if you hooked up a GPS transmitter to your pocket and had some kind of supermagnetism... :) On a more practical note (yet still in the imaginative realm, of course), my friend mentioned her idea for UV-coating the edges of contact lenses so you could find them easily when they get lost. (You couldn't coat the whole thing or it would get in the way of your sight.) Glow-in-the-dark contacts would be cool but would be rather freaky at night. :) She also has an idea to put an oil-based layer on the outside of windshields, so that the ice will be repelled and won't form. No more scraping off windshields. That got me thinking: is there some cheap way to prevent ice from forming on sidewalks and roads? Salt kind of works but it doesn't do much good for the local soil, and the ice still forms. Heating could work but you'd have to have a lot of energy to run it. There's got to be a way...
Finally, in my writing class today the teacher mentioned that in the American Psychological Association (or maybe it's the Psychiatric association -- something like that), there's a policy along the lines of "Seeing visions, hearing voices, or feeling impressions to do things are psychoses...except for Mormons." Really. (Well, I'm not 100% sure, but even if it's not, it's a great story. :))
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