We never lose the pain, we just grow more tree around it. I’m sorry it’s so immediately and intensely painful right now. 10:1 that being in another location will unlock a lot more hurt, but hopefully it’ll also bring you some joy and good food!
I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app
Was it a nice note, I hope?
Absolutely! @mikeokuda.bsky.social and Denise Okuda are freaking geniuses. Their work played a major part in getting me into graphic design back then, and they should be getting royalties on every smart phone OS and app there is.
I always ask for 200 samples of my books, so I can give them as gifts. The oldest title is from 2004 and I still have a few. A few hundred don’t take up a huge amount if space, either. Stock up, but a thousand books are a lot.
I only read books written in the royal we, because I’m not a peasant.
I thought, “here’s an abbreviated Harold” and figured Eline is a Scandinavian last name.
Oh, definitely ignorant! I figured Hel was equivalent to the English Hal. My bad, I’m sorry!
Sir! Language! Please! 😄
Håretic!
Simultaneously the Dutch version.
When I moved here I didn’t realize for the first three months that we had foothills. And that was in the mid-90s.
I’m assuming nobody is masked?
Cøntry & Wåstern
Hear me out: Floyd Rose
For me, the point I know the book is finished is after my publisher refuses to let me see another proof.
I remember reading a long New Yorker piece of his on freight trains when I was a kid. The man knows how to elevate a subject!
I remember going to the going-out-of-business at our local Rizzoli’s. I told the clerk, “Oh no, I always loved coming in here to browse,” and I still remember his icy stare. “Yeah, lots of people liked browsing.”
Oscar Isaac really stepped up his game from the Hippopotamus Song!
ALT text: a giant ant is menacing a woman in 1950s clothing for questioning that there are more ants on Earth than there are stars in the observable universe. “Oh yeah, Millicent?!”
An I wrong to remember that the first edits showed up a few weeks into the original theatrical run? Whether I agree with every choice or not, I kinda think it’s cool that he kept tinkering. Like Rembrandt sneaking into people’s houses and touching up their paintings.
Forget Grogu, this is the actual Yoda precursor stage.
You just gonna take that lying down, ants? Put on some Barry White and get to it!
Exactly. And how many accidents does the extra hour of daylight at the end of the day save? Seems very hard to account for all factors, and yet these studies always seem conveniently helpful to the Early Bird fanatics.
Max Headroom, starring Matt Fewer
