I'm in Michigan!

[yendi]

I'm at Resnet! The conference is the usual disorganized clusterfuck, but the swag so far has been nice -- I've already got a nice pen, a mini stuffed bulldog (which will be Elayna's, soon), a nice glass, a tie-die shirt, and, at the O'Reilly-sponsored lunch tomorrow, we'll apparently get a free book and shirt from them. The grand-prize drawing after the conference is for an Ehron chair, too. :-)

And I'm remember how much staying in a dorm in college sucked ass.

Plane ride was fine. Aside from The Longest Fucking Line ever at security. It went literally to the back of the rear atrium in Hartsfield. And there were four parallel lines that long! Sheesh.

I finished the best children's book of the year on the plane ride up here. And no, it wasn't a book that was released today. :-) It was Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men, and it's not even fair to compare it to a Rowling book. Pratchett has entered the Diana Wynne Jones realm.

It's time to head downstairs for the shuttles to the opening banquet. Free food, here I come! Longer update later.

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[bouncepogo.livejournal.com]

Glad you made it safely!

Just out of curiosity because I don't think I ever knew, where'd you go to college?

[silme.livejournal.com]

No, that was the best children's book of LAST year. I have proof. It won the Carnegie Medal last year, which is the British equivalent of the Newbury Award. ;)

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

mmmm, Aeron chairs.... fond memories of my bum nestled in the $1000+ webbing of such a chair during the Dotcom Boom in San Francisco... ::wistful sigh::

[nomadmwe.livejournal.com]

And I'm remember how much staying in a dorm in college sucked ass.
Heh. My unemployed ass is still living in a dorm while in grad school.

Kill me. :)

[lonesomenumber1]

Aside from the age of the protagonist, I'm still trying to figure out what made The Wee Free Men a children's book. As opposed to Pterry's other Discworld books, I mean.

Somewhere I saw a comment along the lines of, Pratchett's book was a pale shadow of Coraline, but the poor soul who said that was obviously born without a brain. You'd think modern medicine would concentrate all its efforts on curing this widespread birth defect.

[phantom_wolfboy]

I looked at Wee free men this weekend . . . decided I couldn't justify spending $40 on a hardcover right now. Glad to hear it's worth it, though. :)

[yendi]

Erm, actually, Terry won the Carnegie medal for his 2001 work The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, a fun, if vastly inferior, book. He won that award last July. Since the shortlist for the 2003 award (for books published in 2002) has already been announced (in May), he's not likely to win again forThe Wee Free Men until next year.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19561-2003Jun21.html?nav=hptop_tb

Could be why the lines were so long.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Must get Wee Free, indeedy me.

Do you have The Science of Discworld? I highly reccomend it, but it is hard to find in the USA right now. Cost me double the usual US price for Terry's soft covers.

If you don't have it I could send it along for a borrow read.

Un

[silme.livejournal.com]

Oops. I'm braindead. :) I knew that. Got confused. Need sleep.