Random things make a post
Because although there have been some really good conference sessions, I don't think I have the energy to write about them this evening.
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Am I insanely paranoid? When using a public computer (as I was in the computer lab on the conference this lunchtime*, as I had a little spare time before the next session to check email and DW/LJ/FB etc), I habitually clear the browser cache when finished. And sometimes this process is clearly taking quite a long time, presumably because it is rather a while since anyone did that. Do other people not bother?
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Lovely post by Jo Walton over at Tor.com on rereading and being a rereader:
Even though the world is full of books, I don’t want to read most of them. Even if you only count fiction, there’s a lot written in genres I don’t like, or written by authors I don’t enjoy. Also I read fast, and I read all the time. I don’t find libraries infinite-I mean I adore libraries, but I can read my way through everything I want to read in one in a couple of months.... It never feels like a zero-sum game to me, it always feels as if there isn’t enough to read, and even if there is, as if tomorrow there might not be.
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Even when I have plenty of books, and access to libraries, that doesn’t mean that I’ll be able to put my hand on the kind of thing I want to read this minute. Re-reading always gives me that. There’s a pleasure in reading something new, certainly, but there’s also pleasure in revisiting old friends.
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Eeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Had brief meeting with editor from Publishers Of The Textbook who is present at conference, and is v keen to produce a revised and updated edition. Which, yay! I think.
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Dept of weird spam: Only 26 left - the hottest Breeches Uniform on www.LEATHER-UNIFORM.com: German WWII Leather Breeches Uniform. No compromises. And at the other end of some kind of spectrum, I am on some kind of list for 'Gliterary Lunches' [sic] - even if these did not always seem to be in places where I am unlikely to be on the dates in question, the books and authors they are promoting seem to be NQOSD - in fact, given that L Shriver gives them an effusive testimonial, possibly totally NOSD.
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In other news, have sent what I hope is a restrained message back to the Wiscon programme organiser ,.
*Flemish keyboards = maddening. Esp the convolutions necessary to get @. WTF?
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