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Post, Three Things Make
Apr. 10th, 2013 10:15 amThing #1
(Recycled from a comment on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daveon's LJ regarding Hugo whining)
There is a tendency that, if you don't do something, to think that doing it is easy. If, for example, one is not an IT person, it's easy to assume that all IT people do is sit on their computer and surf the Internet all day. Now, obviously that DOES happen, (exhibit A = this post) but that's far from ALL that happens. (Says the guy who was at work until 8:30 last night performing an upgrade on the bank's phone switches.)
Thus with the people who have you so exercised. They don't "do" con-running, so therefore con-running has to be easy and consist mostly of standing around in hotel bars. Again, this DOES happen, but that's usually after a metric shitload of hard work has been done to get the con off of the ground.
Thing #2
I voted in yesterday's municipal elections. I mentioned that at November's election I voted before 8 AM and was ballot #140 (or so). Today I voted after 5 PM and was ballot #100. Municipal elections have low turnouts.
Thing #3
I finished John Scalzi's serialized novel The Human Division last night. I have to say I was a bit disappointed to find that the ending was a cliff-hanger. It's one thing to have Book One of what's clearly marked as a serial end on a cliff, and it's quite another to end a (supposedly) free-standing book on a cliff. Don't get me wrong - I trust John would have released an ending even if Tor didn't up for Book Two. My complaint is that had I known it was a series I might not have bought in.
ETA: There's a discussion thread about this on John's site, and one person made a good point. Their point - if one considers The Human Division as more like a TV series than a book, a cliff-hanger is perfectly acceptable.
(Recycled from a comment on
daveon's LJ regarding Hugo whining)There is a tendency that, if you don't do something, to think that doing it is easy. If, for example, one is not an IT person, it's easy to assume that all IT people do is sit on their computer and surf the Internet all day. Now, obviously that DOES happen, (exhibit A = this post) but that's far from ALL that happens. (Says the guy who was at work until 8:30 last night performing an upgrade on the bank's phone switches.)
Thus with the people who have you so exercised. They don't "do" con-running, so therefore con-running has to be easy and consist mostly of standing around in hotel bars. Again, this DOES happen, but that's usually after a metric shitload of hard work has been done to get the con off of the ground.
Thing #2
I voted in yesterday's municipal elections. I mentioned that at November's election I voted before 8 AM and was ballot #140 (or so). Today I voted after 5 PM and was ballot #100. Municipal elections have low turnouts.
Thing #3
I finished John Scalzi's serialized novel The Human Division last night. I have to say I was a bit disappointed to find that the ending was a cliff-hanger. It's one thing to have Book One of what's clearly marked as a serial end on a cliff, and it's quite another to end a (supposedly) free-standing book on a cliff. Don't get me wrong - I trust John would have released an ending even if Tor didn't up for Book Two. My complaint is that had I known it was a series I might not have bought in.
ETA: There's a discussion thread about this on John's site, and one person made a good point. Their point - if one considers The Human Division as more like a TV series than a book, a cliff-hanger is perfectly acceptable.
