Miles for miles

[msmemory_archive]

Anybody have an audiobook version of Warrior's Apprentice or The Vor Game that they'd lend us for the drive to Coronation? I have yet to get jducoeur to read any Vorkosigan, and figured this would be a golden opportunity to feed it to him gently, but naturally I haven't been able to find the recordings locally (except Brothers In Arms).

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[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

kestrell has a bunch of them on audio cassette, and would probably be willing to loan. I think she has one or two on MP3-CD also.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Too bad I didn't think to ask you or her on Saturday!

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I grabbed the tapes of Shards of Honor and Warrior's Apprentice, and will be bringing them to dance. If Justin isn't going to be there, you should figure out someone else who can pick them up.

[tpau]

what you are not starting with Cordelia's Honor? traitor :)

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen jducoeur in hyper mode? People keep telling him he reminds them of Miles. And I think he'll be happier starting with Miles than Cordelia. (I could see starting with Shards Of Honor, but not all of Cordelia's Honor before getting to the adult[ish] Miles.)

[siderea]

Borders of Infinity is I think the best intro, and it's very Justin. :}

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Well, the obvious reason is that he's not over-tall, but that's a red herring. I think probably starting with Miles is best, too.

Where are these cartoon versions of posters coming from?

Avatars

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Design your own at
http://www.dookyweb.com/index.php?seccion=avatars

Nevermind the fact that the site is written in Spanish, just mix up the hair, eyes, etc., and copy it into MS Paint (or similar) using your PrintScreen button.

Re: Avatars

[metageek.livejournal.com]

It's based on a plugin; probably Windows-only.

Re: Avatars

[metageek.livejournal.com]

No, I'm wrong; it's Flash. I just haven't installed Flash in my Firefox yet, 'cause it's mostly used for extra-annoying ads.

Re: Avatars

[jducoeur]

I just haven't installed Flash in my Firefox yet, 'cause it's mostly used for extra-annoying ads.

That's getting to be less and less true. At this point, Flash is getting powerful enough to be fairly called a platform.

Our product's entire front end is written in Flash -- it's a smidgeon sluggish, but exceptionally pretty, and is effectively no-download for many purposes because something like 95% of all browsers have Flash installed. And that's getting to be typical: Macromedia is pushing Flash very heavily as a web-app platform. Really, they're trying to succeed at the game where Java mostly didn't -- becoming *the* front end for applets -- and it looks like they may yet pull it off.

Now if they can just add a programming language that doesn't *utterly* suck, they'll really have something...

Re: Flash MX

[metageek.livejournal.com]

Macromedia is pushing Flash very heavily as a web-app platform.

I know, and it annoys me: I'd much rather see SVG+DOM get adopted. I don't know if it currently lags in capabilities, but standards are important. Unfortunately, reasonably efficient SVG implementations have been slow to come out.

Of course, I'll probably cave in and install Flash the first time I actually need it. It's not like it's from Microsoft or anything.

Re: Avatars

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Not only Windows-only, but apparently MSIE only. I tried to open this page in Mozilla and it failed; I had to use IE.

Re: Avatars

[metageek.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I did, too

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[jducoeur]

I tried to open this page in Mozilla and it failed; I had to use IE.

Interesting -- it appears to work fine in Firebird. I guess the newer generations of Mozilla are getting to be better at faking IE-ness...

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[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

No, it worked for me using Safari on a Mac. Maybe your Mozilla just couldn't find the Flash plugin?

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I just misread that as "Miles for Niles".

Obsessed? Me?

The Mountains of Mourning

[metageek.livejournal.com]

I think "The Mountains of Mourning" is a great introduction--and it's available free online, at the
Baen Free Library. It was the first Vorkosigan story I read, when it was printed in Analog in 1990 or so; it doesn't depend on knowing the background, and it's short enough that Mark might be more willing to pick it up; but it's really compelling. Print it out; it'll get him hooked.