All good things...
Unfortunately, I've been out of touch with my LJ recently. (I was sick at a time when work was extremely busy, but am better now.) So, I missed last week's excellent news that The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction will be published next month. It seems that with a lot of hard work and determination, Steve Vander Ark has revised his manuscript to make it compliant with the September 2008 court decision, which confirmed that unofficial guides to literary works should not be prohibited as long as they don't use too much text from the original work.
Congratulations, Steve!
It'll be exciting to see it in bookstores finally! :)
Also, I updated my "home theater" with a new plasma HDTV - it's a thing of beauty, all sleek and black and the perfect size for my room. The picture on the TV is great, too! *lol* I also got the Blu-Ray DVD player to go along with it. I don't have any Blu-Ray DVDs, yet, but it plays regular DVDs, too, which is convenient. I'd previously been under the impression that Blu-Ray players wouldn't play regular DVDs and that everything I own would need to be replaced, if I ever got one.
The Blu-Ray player "up-converts" the old DVDs quite well, so they're very clear - I can now see all the appalling skin flaws of my favorite actors and actresses! :-D (No one should be worried about that, since it just makes them seem more like real people, rather than divine beings to be placed upon pedestals.) Actually, the thing I notice the most, strangely enough, is the fabrics used for costumes. For example, it was only after watching the Doctor Who series 4 DVD set that my parents got me for my birthday on this new set-up that I realized the Doctor's blue suit isn't solid blue - it has reddish-orange pinstripes in it! *geekily excited by being able to see this*
Congratulations, Steve!
It'll be exciting to see it in bookstores finally! :)
Also, I updated my "home theater" with a new plasma HDTV - it's a thing of beauty, all sleek and black and the perfect size for my room. The picture on the TV is great, too! *lol* I also got the Blu-Ray DVD player to go along with it. I don't have any Blu-Ray DVDs, yet, but it plays regular DVDs, too, which is convenient. I'd previously been under the impression that Blu-Ray players wouldn't play regular DVDs and that everything I own would need to be replaced, if I ever got one.
The Blu-Ray player "up-converts" the old DVDs quite well, so they're very clear - I can now see all the appalling skin flaws of my favorite actors and actresses! :-D (No one should be worried about that, since it just makes them seem more like real people, rather than divine beings to be placed upon pedestals.) Actually, the thing I notice the most, strangely enough, is the fabrics used for costumes. For example, it was only after watching the Doctor Who series 4 DVD set that my parents got me for my birthday on this new set-up that I realized the Doctor's blue suit isn't solid blue - it has reddish-orange pinstripes in it! *geekily excited by being able to see this*