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I'll try to get to it tomorrow. Otherwise, I'm back in the coal mines again and working five 14 hr shifts in a row. However, I will make sure that I get to it sooner than later. I owe you no less.
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njc wrote:
Okay, there's a sketch of an episode up in Book 2, chapter 40, A Lecture at the Academy. It's mostly scenery and power moment. Amy, you may OD on it, even though you'll spend more words telling me what's wrong with it.
When it becomes a real chapter (Book 2 or 3), the phony names will get filled in and there will be more meat. Right now it's meant to be very pretty bone and appetizer.
Are you looking for reviews or is this just a placeholder njc?
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If it's out there, it's up for review. If I haven't terminally ticked off Amy, I'd like her take on the power moments and description.
Speaking of which, I'll try to get your new chapter reviewed by 10:00 AM.
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I will take a look at it. The summer months are brutal where I work and I haven't had much time for anything. Tonight was the first time I've sat down and written for more than 10 days. It's been a bear.
Thanks for the reminder. You are back at the top of the list, NJC.
430 2015-09-14 15:04:12 (edited by njc 2015-09-14 15:09:16)
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Quick followup to Amy: There are no stairs in this building. There will be buildings where you go in the basement and come out on the roof, and verse-vica. I think you remember Kirsey's visit to the library?
Oh, and how good a seat is depends on what kind of seat/table you prefer, and subtle differences on your angle of view. The differences are so subtle that your expectations can overwhelm reality.
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You mean when Kirsey visits the library? Could be, but Escher was limited to impossibles that looked possible.
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How is the turn-table thingy thing coming along?
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The head amp. I've got two new tasks pushing down the pushdown stack. Sometimes it seems like turtles all the way down.
Meanwhile, I may have a workable sequence for the monster Erevain scene, assuming that the post-its I've been jugging around the big sheet of paper don't get blown away. (But see the link I posted on the other thread.)
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The Big Page of Sticky Notes has been transferred to a file. Now I have to fill in the blueprint. It's still a lot of work.
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Why not? It's something you are working on. This is your thread. Why not put it up here and have Janet comment? I have no idea what I'm looking at, but I might pick up something by osmosis.
Right now, I'm learning boat terminology so that I can describe what happens to the rowboats in the Catacombs. Poor Petra Puppy.
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amy s wrote:
Pictures?
Clearly I'm losing my touch *blushes prettily*
A photo of a sketch would also do ... I miss all those capacitors and resistors and diodes 
ps - Amy, you're funny - osmosis, LOL! I can see where Alda gets it from! 
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Truth. Sometimes a fact or two has to cross a resistant barrier in order to bloat my brain.
Though instead of calling me funny, don't you mean salty? Hmmmm?
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I'm working on the f'schtunkin' photo. It got me into a problem where I thought I would need a tech to dismantle my laptop to get the cable out. But the counter guy at Geek Squad recognized that it was a problem with the combo (USB/eSATA) port--you actually had to pull harder than feels safe. I'll avoid that connector from now on.
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It looks complicated. Don't turn on a fan in the apartment. Don't run to answer the phone. Don't sneeze:-)
Achoo! Nooooooooo!
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Nyarharrharr. It's all copied out. Now I have to flesh it in and make all the bits work. I'll probably have to diddle the previous chapter as well.
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amy s wrote:
Truth. Sometimes a fact or two has to cross a resistant barrier in order to bloat my brain.
Though instead of calling me funny, don't you mean salty? Hmmmm?
Hilarious but salty. Will that work better for you, milady?
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njc wrote:
Well, you did ask for it:
Does your handwriting only look so small or do you actually write that small?
It could also be my eye-sight that is really getting old ...
Also, one of the sticky notes tried to get away - hope you didn't allow it!
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It's not that the writing is small, it's that the page is big. It's about 20 inches long. The ruling on the tabs is a little bigger than college ruling, so my natural witing size looks a little small on it.
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One of my pushdown stack tasks has gone sour.
I've been relying on a 12v->20v power brick to provide extra run time to my flaptop. The brick has been losing the ability to keep up with the peak current draw. I bought a replacement (whose plug is so crappy I'll have to replace it after it's run 100 hrs or so and I know it won't fail on the infant mortality side of the bathtub curve) and opened up the old one with the intent of replacing the no-name electrolytic capacitors (probably the source of the slow failure) with top-end Panasonics, and maybe to increase the output capacitance by 25% to 50%.
But it was put together in a way that made it difficult without special desoldering gear and I destroyed the copper plate-throughs in the holes where two powertab transistors and two powertab-packaged diode pairs were soldered. The circuit board in that vicinity suffered, too.
Now, how badly do I want to fix this, and how much am I willing to risk catastrophic failure? Catastropic failure could include overvoltage to the laptop. What kind of test load do I put on it? This thing can supply 90 watts. I'm no spark.
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Amy, I'll reply to your review this afternoon.
