Sorry to hear about your biking troubles. Hope you are ok! Loose gravel is horrendous. Take it easy for a few days until the road rash recovers.

inlägg gjort av reading_fox vid 6:05 am (EST) Aug 29, 2008

Just Real Life(TM), nothing perticular a concatenation of small things, and a long weekend. I read a lot more threads than I ever get around to posting in. No problems about the birthday thread - surprised though - I don't usually post in any of the birthday threads, but I did like Clam's photo.

inlägg gjort av reading_fox vid 5:25 am (EST) Aug 26, 2008

QUOTE: "...a friend over here once said "why don't you..."

A pox upon their house!!!! LOL

inlägg gjort av MtnSk8tr vid 12:07 pm (EST) Aug 22, 2008

Thanks for the idea (on Sheji) of adding maps. We have a wonderful collection of topographic ones, including the Canadian Rockies, that I never would have thought to catalog. I did start adding programs from special events.

Adding these guarantees I will NEVER be done cataloging!

inlägg gjort av MtnSk8tr vid 11:57 am (EST) Aug 22, 2008

Thanks for the tip about reading_fox's b-day, but I cannot help but notice he is NOT posting in his own birthday thread. I wonder if he has birthday 'issues!'
:oS

inlägg gjort av clamairy vid 11:20 am (EST) Aug 22, 2008

*Waves back!*

Yeah, I've been away for quite a while! I really miss the place. For one, RL has kept me busy. Girls have been distracting me, too. But hey, they sure make life fun (most of the time). ;-) Also, work has been a little busy. We had the release of "Breaking Dawn" the other night and had a huge Vampire Prom party. It was a blast! And yes, I am busy RPGing; DMing to be exact. We've only had one session (the second one is this Sunday), but I've been doing loads of planning. The first one was pretty fun, but I think this next one will be a lot more fun. It's a fun group; we have so much fun together anyway that I don't feel a lot of pressure to entertain them.

The London gathering looked fun! And yes! it would be so cool to get together sometime. If you're ever in the States we'll *have* to make something work. I'd love for you to visit this wacky place; I'd like to hear your take on it. We'd absolutely have to attend a service at the mega church up the road from me; that'd be interesting, eh?

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 5:10 pm (EST) Aug 7, 2008

There's an article today on Tor.com's blog about Cherryh and the Atevi books.

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_...

inlägg gjort av fleela vid 11:28 am (EST) Aug 7, 2008

Thanks,
This is exactly the sort of help that I needed. I'm going to paste in the proper spellings and, as you said, this should take care of the combining.

inlägg gjort av KCGordon vid 8:32 am (EST) Aug 7, 2008

Hey, I am working on the Carl Sandburg library project and am having trouble with a few of his Swedish language books. I was able to find some of them in the Malmo Stadsbibliotek, however some of them I had to enter manually. My Swedish is nonexistant. Could you please look over the books by Albert Engstrom and make sure that they at least make sense. The catalog that I am using has some misspellings in the English titles, so its possible that there are some in the Swedish ones as well. Thank you for any help that you can give.

inlägg gjort av KCGordon vid 3:01 pm (EST) Jul 30, 2008

Oh good. Have a good time, and "see" you when you return!

inlägg gjort av stellarexplorer vid 2:41 pm (EST) Jul 27, 2008

Haven't seen you around lately -- Please don't be a stranger! Everything OK?

inlägg gjort av stellarexplorer vid 1:30 am (EST) Jul 26, 2008

Have fun and be sure to list your new books...in English please! ;) Did you know that we share "Den Siste Mohikanen"? I love it...

inlägg gjort av TheaMak vid 7:57 pm (EST) Jul 3, 2008

Busifer! Still here, kinda.. ;) Just got back from New York, (went to oodles of used book stores!) and so I've been out of the loop. But this happens every summer. Have you seen my latest additions? I bought LOTS of books in NY. But, how are you??

inlägg gjort av TheaMak vid 8:55 pm (EST) Jul 2, 2008

It was nice of you anyway. By the way - I've been meaning to say - I keep forgetting English isn't your first language. It doesn't seem that way. You speak it a heck of a lot better than a lot of English people I know!

inlägg gjort av Booksloth vid 2:49 pm (EST) Jun 25, 2008

I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate your calm, reasoning voice in the GD discussions. Maybe it's because I agree with you almost all the time - you just say it so much better than I ever could! I love your enjoyment of Star Trek TNG, it makes me feel like we share something fun and wonderful across the world together with that. And I'm always very happy to read your posts - more often than not, you give me something to think about. Thank you Pella. :-)

inlägg gjort av katylit vid 11:08 am (EST) Jun 25, 2008

When I signed in today, you were listed among the "interesting members" on the home page. Richly deserved, I'm sure!

Elizabeth

inlägg gjort av ejj1955 vid 4:41 pm (EST) Jun 24, 2008

Good match! You kinda hate to see it end on a shootout, but they can't exactly keep playing all night either.

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 5:25 pm (EST) Jun 22, 2008

Indeed I am! Awaiting extra time now. Wow! What's with all the extra time matches lately? Good stuff though!

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 4:37 pm (EST) Jun 22, 2008

Oh yeah! Russia definitely out played 'em. Good win! I've always liked the Dutch team though, and van Nistelrooy is one of my all-time favorite players, so at least he was a bit of a hero ... even if it was short lived.

So yeah, the 'Home' page ... not a huge fan. It's okay, but I hate that there's no tab to take me straight to my profile page because I still like it best. Oh well, I have it set as my browser's home page, so I can always get there by clicking on my browser's home button.

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 9:03 pm (EST) Jun 21, 2008

WOW! I just got to watch the Netherlands v Russia on--not some obscure cable channel--but on regular network television! No really! Here. In the US! I wasn't happy with the outcome, but at least I got to see it.

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 5:16 pm (EST) Jun 21, 2008

Looks like there's a shopping centre (?) just across the road behind you, and another not all that far away to the west. And a zoo not all that far away, and I think I saw where Skansen is (saw Nordiska Museet and Wasa in 1982, eminently memorable in the right way! :D ). Now wouldn't it be grat if one of those shopping-centre-thingies housed the bookshop of our dreams ...

inlägg gjort av hfglen vid 4:36 pm (EST) Jun 3, 2008

It's the local sports club. They play soccer on it in winter and cricket in summer. It's also used for dog training, among other things.

inlägg gjort av hfglen vid 10:42 am (EST) Jun 3, 2008

http://bp2.blogger.com/_BhG0PJy1d78/SA-Y...

Crazy!

inlägg gjort av fleela vid 7:51 pm (EST) Apr 23, 2008

*waves eagerly*

How the hell are ya? Long time no "see", eh?

I was just complaining to clammy that I've been more busy than I like to be. I like to take a rather non-American approach and be the least busy possible. ;-)

How are things "over there"? I feel quite out of the LT loop these days. I simply must make more time for my family!

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 3:52 am (EST) Apr 18, 2008

Sneaky!

I just got your postcard from Italy! Thank you!

inlägg gjort av fleela vid 2:00 pm (EST) Apr 16, 2008

Oooooh! I can't wait to check that out. Thanks!

inlägg gjort av fleela vid 8:56 pm (EST) Apr 7, 2008

Hey Bus! I clicked the friend link but you know, I have no idea what that means in LT. lol Have I joined a secret club? Yea! :)

inlägg gjort av TheaMak vid 7:14 pm (EST) Apr 7, 2008

lol please do, I am unkown to her.

inlägg gjort av Aelith vid 5:06 pm (EST) Apr 7, 2008

She is very talented. I wander what she would think of 'Torturing the Phaidi' , the best fix I know of while waiting for the real thing.

inlägg gjort av Aelith vid 9:51 am (EST) Apr 7, 2008

Busi-ji is it not time to invite TheaMak to Shejidan?

inlägg gjort av Aelith vid 7:44 pm (EST) Apr 6, 2008

Hee he. I appreciate your respect for me "either way", but I do hope you enjoyed my little prank. Wow, there is no way I could have delivered that in person; I would have cracked up laughing before I even got started. ;-)

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 5:48 am (EST) Apr 3, 2008

http://cartophilia.com/blog/images/Subwa... - New York City Subway

"animated GIF starts with a blank subway map and draws each line in the sequence in which it was built"

inlägg gjort av fleela vid 8:04 am (EST) Mar 27, 2008

Happy birthday! What does that make you now, eighteen? Or was this the big 2-0? ;-)

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 4:16 pm (EST) Mar 26, 2008

No I didn't look at the whole thing, just the Js. Now I'll have to go back! LOL

inlägg gjort av clamairy vid 6:06 pm (EST) Mar 23, 2008

Oh, head right to the entries for the letter J.
;o)

inlägg gjort av clamairy vid 4:59 pm (EST) Mar 23, 2008

Yeah, once long a go, I arranged my library by the Dewey system--it didn't last long!

Anyway, I check the store's computer tonight, surprisingly we have a fair number of books on typography in stock. Most are in the graphic design section, but a couple are in our calligraphy section. Books on fonts are in computers.

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 2:39 am (EST) Mar 21, 2008

Fantastic! I love strange questions! ;-)

If we had any in stock (now you've got me wondering if we do), they would be with graphic design (traditional graphic design, not computer) books.

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 3:02 pm (EST) Mar 20, 2008

*waves*

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 3:37 pm (EST) Mar 19, 2008

Busifer: I'd like to hear more of your thoughts about the tag clouds. I did just click through on the first half dozen names on that thread to see what you might be referring to, and I agree that none of those were very similar in scope or even intent. There are people who tag with a specific box number and people who tag according to when they read the title.

What else have you noted?

Jill

inlägg gjort av jillmwo vid 6:57 pm (EST) Mar 15, 2008

Hi, Busifer!

I'm thrilled to have people wanting to join in the conversation... now just where we should hold the conversation, I'm not quite sure ;)

inlägg gjort av moiraji vid 11:41 pm (EST) Mar 14, 2008

Yes, you are right. It would be easier. Perhaps we should consult with Moiraji. I'll send her a PM.

inlägg gjort av stellarexplorer vid 8:05 pm (EST) Mar 14, 2008

A RL conversation among the three of us...THAT would be something!! One day, perhaps!

Still, no reason not to jump in and comment. We'd love to know any thoughts you might wish to share!

inlägg gjort av stellarexplorer vid 11:23 am (EST) Mar 14, 2008

Yep, English is easier. A lot. ^^ I just wish I were even a little better in Swedish, så that I could also work as a Swedish translator - it'd make the job hunting easier. (Heh. Now I'm getting all mixed up. "Så..." XD)

Hey, I was going to ask... would you have any Swedish book recommendations? It's been a while since I read a book in Swedish, and I was thinking I should try it once again. (And even though fantasy & scifi seem to be taking over my LT, I read... pretty much anything.)

inlägg gjort av tuuli vid 8:28 am (EST) Mar 10, 2008

Hej! Roligt att träffas här! Jag gick och läste lite det där... Swedish blog of yours (vad kallar man blog på svenska?) Det var intresssant, och också mycket bra övning. Jag lärde mig några ny ord där. ;) ...jag borde läsa mera på svenska. Kanske då skulle det vara lättare att skriva svenska, också... det borde inte vara så här svårt. xD Engelska försöker to force its way here all the time. Som du ser.

inlägg gjort av tuuli vid 5:59 am (EST) Mar 9, 2008

Hello Busifer!

I had a long off time from Shejidan, so I didn't know you. So good to meet yet another Shejidanee here, and you an experienced LTer, it seems. Me's a total newbie.
I love the idea of weaving a Shejidan net. :)

Vetch

inlägg gjort av Vetch vid 3:39 am (EST) Mar 9, 2008

Busifer-ji, I see we are already friends here, thank goodness! I thought so, but my memory is not intact.

inlägg gjort av kokipy vid 8:07 pm (EST) Mar 8, 2008

Howdy Pella -

I visited your library after reading your commments in HH and I was happy to see that you are from Sweden.

Both of my mother's parents came from Sweden to the United States (Indiana) early in the 20th century. I don't know, but I guess that they wanted to leave Sweden behind and just become Americans, so, well, not much of my own Swedish heritage was passed on to my generation.

I remember smorgasbords every Christmas and I remember Glogg (which I have tried to recreate after all these years ... my Swedish aunt used to start soaking the linen bag of cardemon seeds and other things in July, just to be ready for Jul). I remember standing around a piano and singing songs with the whole extended family. I remember a short Swedish prayer: "God vas sigmun matin amends" (well, obviously I don't remember how to spell the darn thing ... but it was the only Swedish phrase passed on to me in my whole life (I think it meant "god bless our food .... amen")).

Oh, I remember (and still light up every Yuletime) a little angelabra (spell?) .... a small brass thingie with four candles, whose heat spin a small propellor that make three angels go around from which are dangling three rods that strike small bells. What is it, anyhow, about that gadget that makes you smile once a year?

I put strings of Swedish flags on my yule tree and I have a straw yulebok hanging from the rearview mirror of my Japanese car. I have a plate with a young Swedish couple and some Swedish words that I have no idea what they mean (it belonged to my parents ... both now deceased).

A few years ago, while I was still a productive member of society (I am now retired and like to think of myself as a non-productive bum), a coworker who was born in Sweden recommended that I read Moberg's Emigrant series (I had asked him how I might reconnect with my Swedish roots). I really enjoyed reading all four novels.

Right now, I'm reading Mohberg's History of the Swedish People (I'm on volume two right now) and I'm finding them informative, even though I'm not sure how much he stuck to facts versus how much he was using his Swedish intuition.

Next up for me is (Norway's ... may lightening not strike me dead!) Kristen Lavransdatter (which some other friends have recommended, saying that it goes beyond seemingly huge national barriers into the realm of Universal Experience - besides, Sweden and Norway were under the same Union back then (I think)).

So, anyhow, I ask you: have you read any of the above books? What are your feelings regarding them? Are there some other books that you would recommend for someone (me) trying to reconnect to their Swedish roots? Mohberg's history ends around the mid 1500s; is there some book that would give me insights intomore recent Swedish history or culture? Or, should I just pack up my bike and go to Sweden and ride around for a year or three?

Anyhow, thanks to replying to my thread at HH (I'm not clear what you meant by the word "shadow") and it's great to finally "meet" another Swede!

Douglas

"In the end, only kindness matters."

inlägg gjort av doogiewray vid 9:24 pm (EST) Feb 28, 2008

En sak som är rolig är att man återupptäcker böcker man
inte läst på länge...:)

"Vi kanske ses på Gröna Draken?!"
Det hoppas jag, det vore kul! :)

"Tonen kan vara lite fånig ibland men speciellt bokdiskussionerna
brukar vara intressanta :-)"
Åh? Jag har inte mer än hunnit registrera mig, så det ser jag
fram emot...:)

inlägg gjort av Humla vid 3:03 am (EST) Feb 27, 2008

Någon mer från Sverige som upptäckt Terry Pratchett...
Underbart!!
Lycka till med alal kartorna!

/Ankie

inlägg gjort av Humla vid 3:33 am (EST) Feb 25, 2008

Guess what! You (& 4 others) are listed on the LT home/introductory page -- at least right this minute. You are famous!

inlägg gjort av MtnSk8tr vid 3:33 am (EST) Feb 24, 2008

I don't think I want to travel to the locations on this transit map.

inlägg gjort av fleela vid 7:53 am (EST) Feb 18, 2008

Busifer-ji,

Thanks for the LT help. I didn't really understand "combine-separate", and never would have known to do it with the foreign language editions. Now, thanks to your kindness, I do -- and Czech CYTEEN 1: BETRAYAL & Polish TRIPOINT are combined. Thanks for doing Czech FOREIGNER #1. Next project: "combine" the German climbing book we were given.

There is a little story behind the foreign language CJC's:

Approximately 3 years ago while helping Carolyn & Jane move from their 1st Spokane apt, I noticed a large grocery bag loaded with translated works. Yes, you guessed it: CYTEEN, TRIPOINT, & FOREIGNER #1. They had been given to Carolyn by the publisher, but she had no use for them. The local library had declined them, so Carolyn was going to simply throw them away. I scooped the bag up, & told Carolyn that I was certain someone, somewhere, sometime would want them.

I then offered the translations *free* on Shejidan, stipulating only that the person pay postage. No takers.

Later, "Marek" joined Shejidan. It turned out he was the translater for Czech FOREIGNER #1! I surprised him with a Czech copy of *his* transalation, as well as CYTEEN -- both inscribed to him. Marek was totally blown away as it turned out he didn't have a single signed CJC in *any* language. I was then SO glad I hadn't let Carolyn throw the translations away -- and she was also, as Marek was thrilled.

Don't tell anyone ;), but I'm surprising Kel Julian with all 3 translations -- inscribed, of course -- when we meet at RadCon this weekend. I think Kel-J might actually be able to read them, as he speaks 6-7 languages.

Busifer-ji, by any chance, do *you* read Polish or Czech? ;) LOL

inlägg gjort av MtnSk8tr vid 9:02 pm (EST) Feb 12, 2008

*waves from across The Pond*

inlägg gjort av dodger vid 5:33 am (EST) Feb 12, 2008

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=25...

I thought this was funny!

inlägg gjort av fleela vid 12:50 pm (EST) Feb 8, 2008

They're both excused -- no one is required to read English books (I can't read Swedish books!); it just struck me as a difference between you.

It's funny hearing your childhood learning method, because, even as a native English speaker, all through my teen years, I read with a dictionary by my side. I would look up any unfamiliar word to improve my vocabulary. I still do this in fact. I am a journaler who saves past writings, so I still can find lists with titles like "Words I didn't know at age 15" and the like. It helped in life, but especially on college entrance exams! :)

inlägg gjort av stellarexplorer vid 10:36 am (EST) Jan 29, 2008

The two of them have far fewer in English than you do.

inlägg gjort av stellarexplorer vid 10:11 pm (EST) Jan 28, 2008

Oh! I should have realized it was something like that. I guess you are the family archivist!

inlägg gjort av stellarexplorer vid 10:07 pm (EST) Jan 28, 2008

Hi -- I'm wondering -- what does your tag "tommy" mean?

inlägg gjort av stellarexplorer vid 2:17 am (EST) Jan 28, 2008

Yes, I've tried not to say very much about Cyteen II : Regeneration. I pretty much excused myself from the Cyteen I discussion. I know way too much & was afraid if I participated, whatever I did -- or didn't - say would give some of II's story away.

That being said, II is a WONDERFUL book. It's hard for me to judge, because I'm understandably biased -- but Carolyn may have done it again. If she got another Hugo I would cry with joy.

inlägg gjort av MtnSk8tr vid 6:04 pm (EST) Dec 30, 2007