Lucy Snyder ([info]las) wrote,
@ 2007-12-18 12:26:00
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A new interview up at GUD
Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine is posting interviews with various contributors. My poem "Subtlety" is in their new issue, and they posted my interview last night.

In other news, we've been 5 days without decent heat since our ancient furnace died. We've been making do with space heaters, old wool sweaters and cats that huddle around us looking worried. But salvation just arrived in the form of a repairman with a nice shiny new furnace which, according to various reviews, should be much more energy-efficient and quieter and probably even has a secret button that transforms it into Rubimus Prime, a backrub-giving autobot.

I haven't been this happy to see a piece of machinery in a long time. I probably won't be writing any love poetry to the new furnace or anything, but you never know with me.


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[info]bzarcher
2007-12-18 06:03 pm UTC (link)
Hoooray!

Really, I'd say a furnace sonnet would be hilarious.

Alex was going to ask you about this, but I am guessing you'll not be at work today since you're being serviced - Would you and Gary like to go out for Christmas Eve dinner again this year? I'll take care of the check - just a chance for you guys to get out, hopefully relax a little and have a nice night before the holiday after the last week.

Edit: Ack. The GUD website hates IE 7 - I can't get any of their pages to load.

Edited at 2007-12-18 06:20 pm UTC

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[info]twen
2007-12-18 06:29 pm UTC (link)
I am guessing you'll not be at work today since you're being serviced

Dude, if I were being serviced, I wouldn't be at work either. :D

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[info]las
2007-12-18 06:40 pm UTC (link)
Christmas Eve dinner would be great! :) Let us know where and when, and we'll be there with bells on! Well, clothes, anyway.

Have you not the Firefox? I don't even have IE7 installed on any of my main machines, since many of OSU's services break on it. :-\

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[info]bzarcher
2007-12-18 06:49 pm UTC (link)
Sadly, I do not have firefox on my work pc - gotta run the IE 7 for apps we support. :(

I'm working from home that day, so shall we say around 5pmish?

Have you guys been to Windchimes or Joey Chang's on this side of town?

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[info]las
2007-12-18 10:24 pm UTC (link)
I don't think we've been to either of those restaurants, so either would be fine. Shall we meet at your place ahead of time?

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[info]bzarcher
2007-12-18 11:20 pm UTC (link)
Well, I was gonna say yes and then my boss called and asked me to work in the office. :D

But, I should be out of there around 4:30, and Alex will be home I believe, so if you'd like to be over early that's fine!

I'll call Joey's and Windchimes and see if either are taking reservations for Christmas Eve. Whichever one does gets the vote, after last year. :D

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[info]kaolinfire
2007-12-18 08:35 pm UTC (link)
Sorry, Yahoo killed the IE. No idea how, really (color me befuddled--when _is_ Crayola going to come out with that?), but a "yahoo counts this many sites linking to GUD Magazine" counter was the cause of that strange, strange error.

The site is now IE5.5+ friendly once again. Sorry about that!

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[info]bzarcher
2007-12-18 08:42 pm UTC (link)
Very odd, but somehow doesn't shock me. IE's usual problems with someone actually taking advantage of a bunch of neat CSS tricks, maybe?

Thanks, though!

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[info]kaolinfire
2007-12-18 08:44 pm UTC (link)
It was a slice of javascript copypasted from Yahoo, so even more black box (linking to js on their server).

I'm just counting myself lucky my first guess as to what to blame was correct, as that was the only guess I had. :)

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[info]bzarcher
2007-12-18 08:48 pm UTC (link)
Ahhh - yeah, that's bat country right there.

And as they said, I'd rather be lucky than good...

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[info]twen
2007-12-18 06:28 pm UTC (link)
Aw comeon! Just a little sonnet for the warmthgiver?!?! Perhaps a haiku? Dirty limerick? :P

Many many hugs!

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[info]las
2007-12-18 06:41 pm UTC (link)
I'll see what I can do :)

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[info]flaggerx
2007-12-18 11:04 pm UTC (link)
I have no idea what your 'enjambment' is?

On the other hand, maybe that's sort of intimate.

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[info]las
2007-12-19 12:09 am UTC (link)
Enjambment refers to the way lines are broken in a poem; Wikipedia has a pretty good entry on it.

Edited at 2007-12-19 12:10 am UTC

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[info]kaolinfire
2007-12-19 07:54 am UTC (link)
It's such a great word. :)

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[info]las
2007-12-19 03:26 pm UTC (link)
His underwear
became strangely
enjambed
between his
lines

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