Codgering in the blinding light of the obvious
In which we discover that I am a middle-aged codger
The mail today brought interesting things. One of which was my 2 Gb high-speed SD card for the camera. I paid less than $50 for this sucker, including shipping. The first mass storage device I ever used was an Apple HD-20, back in 1986, which cost my then-employer $1,400 at that time(about $2,400 in 2006 dollars, adjusted for inflation). That was 20 megabytes, roughly 1% of the size of the card I just received in the mail. So...my inflation-adjusted cost per Gb went from $120,000 to $25.
Every now and then I have to stop and boggle.
Of course, back then 20 Mb held the operating system, Microsoft Word, all my files, and I remember thinking, "I will never fill all this space up." Now 2 Gb will hold an afternoon's worth of photos, if I'm not too profligate.
In which we (re)discover the blinding light of the obvious
The mail also brought my first pass page proofs of Mainspring from Tor. I need to have any final corrected proofs back to Tor just after New Year's. Which means I will be reading the book again. Which is the, um, fifth or sixth time I've read my own book? At least.
(I will now wait for any pro novelists reading this to stop laughing hysterically.)
So I have to horn another close line-read of Mainspring into the next three or four weeks. Which is fine. I love my book. It's just that somehow no one ever mentioned how many times I'd have to read the silly thing before it finally launches into the libraverse.
It's always nice to discover the obvious.
The mail today brought interesting things. One of which was my 2 Gb high-speed SD card for the camera. I paid less than $50 for this sucker, including shipping. The first mass storage device I ever used was an Apple HD-20, back in 1986, which cost my then-employer $1,400 at that time(about $2,400 in 2006 dollars, adjusted for inflation). That was 20 megabytes, roughly 1% of the size of the card I just received in the mail. So...my inflation-adjusted cost per Gb went from $120,000 to $25.
Every now and then I have to stop and boggle.
Of course, back then 20 Mb held the operating system, Microsoft Word, all my files, and I remember thinking, "I will never fill all this space up." Now 2 Gb will hold an afternoon's worth of photos, if I'm not too profligate.
In which we (re)discover the blinding light of the obvious
The mail also brought my first pass page proofs of Mainspring from Tor. I need to have any final corrected proofs back to Tor just after New Year's. Which means I will be reading the book again. Which is the, um, fifth or sixth time I've read my own book? At least.
(I will now wait for any pro novelists reading this to stop laughing hysterically.)
So I have to horn another close line-read of Mainspring into the next three or four weeks. Which is fine. I love my book. It's just that somehow no one ever mentioned how many times I'd have to read the silly thing before it finally launches into the libraverse.
It's always nice to discover the obvious.