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The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
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Posted on 09/02/2004 2:18:28 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: osagebowman
To: TalonDJ; Corin Stormhands; HairOfTheDog; ksen
4,982
posted on
09/27/2004 8:22:43 PM PDT
by
Professional Engineer
(When candy bars are outlawed, only outlaws will have candy bars.)
To: RMDupree
Tampoco hablo japones ni hablo chino...When I contracted out at Nissan, the funniest thing was listening to the Japanese engineers try to speak Spanish over the phone to the plant in Mexico.
The second funniest thing was working on the Japanese version of Windows 95. This wasn't just a Japanese character set, it was the whole suite, including Office, in Japanese. Oh, in Japanese, you get a dolphin and a fairy for animated Office characters.
I had to apply a fix for 100+ Japanese systems, one at a time. I had an eight-page script of screen shots showing me where to click on each button.
After about the first 20, I had the sequence memorized, and could just fly through the routine. I had more than one person comment on how fluent I must be in Japanese. I quickly explained my trick, because I didn't want them to engage me in chit-chat while I was upgrading their software.
The funny thing is, the Japanese keyboard and character set is difficult for even Japanese to use, because it's a limited, compromised version of written language, made especially for computers. They generally have to parse each display character to get its meaning, making for extremely slow reading. And the DBDC Japanese keyboard requires them to assemble a character out of a top and bottom half, with special shift and function keys.
4,983
posted on
09/27/2004 9:35:26 PM PDT
by
300winmag
(FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
To: RMDupree; RosieCotton; JenB; All
Pretty!
Actually saw CA go paler blue over the weekend...
You know what would be cool? If all of us in the Hobbit Hole took turns writing a chapter. Someone starts the story in whatever way they please and we take it from where it leaves off until we reach the end!
Very cool idea.
Another similar thought: someone comes up with plot and characters, determines chapter maximum length and what portion of the plot occurs in each chapter, parcels out chapter assignments to HHDs (who write in isolation from, indeed ignorance of, other writers) and compiles the results without edits.
It would be a hodgepodge of inconsistency (the main character would suddenly become taller and addicted to cheese in one chapter, and go without any hat at all, let alone the Required Lucky Hat, in the next. This would be part of the charm.
Imagine such a book co-authored by Dickens, Hemngway, and the "can you hear me now" guy.
OTOH, the temptation to be overly individualistic (in order to increase the contrasts between chapters) might overwhelm some.
To: ExGeeEye
not gonna spam for the precious...
4,985
posted on
09/28/2004 3:21:01 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(Please keep the temperature of this tagline above 68 degrees...)
To: Corin Stormhands
4,986
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09/28/2004 3:21:13 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
4,987
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09/28/2004 3:21:24 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
one of them is up...watching...
4,988
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09/28/2004 3:21:40 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
4,989
posted on
09/28/2004 3:21:50 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
the fat hobbit...he knows...
4,990
posted on
09/28/2004 3:22:02 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
4,991
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09/28/2004 3:22:18 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
4,992
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09/28/2004 3:23:37 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
4,993
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09/28/2004 3:23:45 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
4,994
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09/28/2004 3:24:32 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
4,995
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09/28/2004 3:24:53 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
4,996
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09/28/2004 3:25:05 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
4,997
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09/28/2004 3:25:22 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
4,998
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09/28/2004 3:25:29 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
4,999
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09/28/2004 3:25:51 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
5,000
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09/28/2004 3:26:02 AM PDT
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Corin Stormhands
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