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~Tom

Ah, now I understand better, Dirk.  How about this:

The shipping company, wanting to do everything on the cheap, has slaves only because they are too cheap to buy machinery that IS protected from the dust (premise 'a', above). So, they use slaves instead because their maintenance costs less than new, protected, equipment.

~Tom

Sometimes it isn't possible to point to something and say "this is good and here is why I liked it".  I've done a lot of reviews on another site, and in some cases I got so bogged down in finding errors that I completely missed the point of the story.  On this site, I read the whole post through without trying to find anything.  Then I open a text file on my desktop and make notes of my impression.

Then I go back and look at structure, syntax, punctuation, and grammar, making notes in the text file on this also.  The primary reason for the text file is to remove the "must get to 50 words or I won't get points" temptation.  Another reason for the text file is that I sometimes take quite a while to review. Before, when I was making notes in the review box, I'd find myself getting logged out and have to start again. The text file lets me work at my speed and paste it into the box later.

If there are any 'rules' about doing reviews, I would also like to see them as I am looking to give better reviews also.

There are times when a simple "I loved this!" works very well indeed.

~Tom

Probably not. I couldn't finish the first book.

~Tom

Well, the beer was semi-easy to ignore. Back then, you could drink 3.2 beer at 18 in Colorado. It was mostly water.

~Tom

I have to agree with Dagnee.  When I met my future wife, 52 years ago, I thought she smelled great and had a wonderful bunch of pheromones, which she kept throwing my way.  I was home on Christmas leave from Pensacola and headed to the Azores when my brother talked me into going to a high school party with him.  I, of course, being far superior as having graduated a year earlier, nearly didn't go.  We met and spent the entire evening wrapped around each other.  Back at my house, I told my brother that I'd met the person I was going to marry.  Funnily enough, I found out later that she'd told her best friend the very same thing.

I'm still waiting for the pheromones to wear off.

~Tom

A couple of little nits from me also: When I first come to the site, the top of the page says "Login". Clicking that produces the drop-down labeled "Login", but the button we press after entering username/password is labeled "Sign in". The next button below that is labeled 'Join", which is not a problem.

My activity drop-down in the upper right corner will automatically drop down on mouse hover in some cases, but not all. In the forums, for example, I have to actually click the button to get the drop-down. It will change color to show the mouse activated it, but not drop down automatically.  I can live with it either way, but it should be consistent.

Tom

Being totally retired now (at 72), I can sit down at the computer most any time and do some writing. In my head I do revisions, plot shifts, and all sorts of mental gymnastics. They say that mental acuity is enhanced by writing and I firmly believe that because most of the plot is not written down.  I have a list of characters, a local file that is used to nominally lay down a plot, and sort of diagram with the characters and how they interact with each other. I'm always fiddling with that diagram.  But mostly I keep to my computer room and click away. My granddaughter can't believe how fast I type she hears me late into the night.  But, she's 25 now, and can fend for herself.

~Tom

Great work, Sol.   Very much appreciated here.

Tom

I like the way Booksie does it: a main genre dropdown, and then you add a bunch of tags that further define the work.  They are not hashtags, but just simple word (or words connected with an underscore).  For instance, under Romance you can have 'adventure', ''chase', 'capture', 'Russian_Spies', and so on and so forth.  That way, you don't have a lot of items in the dropdown to search through.

Tom

I have to go with an older group of movies:

Since You Went Away
The Best Times of Our Lives
Casablanca
So Proudly we Hail
Mrs. Miniver
Strategic Air Command
The Glenn Miller Story

I will have to add "The Princess Bride" since I'm 'mostly dead' anyway.

EDIT: and I forgot two more: "Love Actually".  This one is several romances rolled into one movie and "Outsourced", which is hilarious as well as romantic.

Tom

Hi, Linda.  I am probably one of those new guys that need to get off the dime and start doing more reviews.  Now that the holidays  are over and my family's mini-maelstrom has pretty much resolved itself, I'll get busy and do some reading/commenting.

Tom