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Matthew Buckley / Re: Bullies Don't Have Armpits
« on: June 15, 2006, 02:20:33 PM »
10 chapters, all done and put to bed.

http://stu-inst.usu.edu:16080/fikiwiki/index.php/Main_Page

The book is currently at about 100 pages.  Chickens was 220, so I'm roughly half way there.

I've struggled through the middle section, although I think it's turned out well. The ending should move quicker because I have it all worked out in my head.

Do any other writers do this? They have the climax in their mind, but they've got to write a whole book, just to get there?

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Everything Else / Re: Run for your Life! June 16-17
« on: June 14, 2006, 05:57:32 PM »
You couldn't do that to a face like this!

http://www.franksworld.com/scrape/issue03/gfx/step_child.jpg

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Rants and Stuff / Re: Jobs and stuff
« on: June 14, 2006, 02:29:41 PM »
I'm hiring, but the pay sucks.  And you have to be an instructional design grad student at USU.  

But if you meet those qualifications, give me a ring.  :)

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Rants and Stuff / Re: You know what feels good?
« on: June 14, 2006, 02:27:28 PM »
When you are terrified of flying (not just nervous, or scared, but completely and utterly terrified), and you are flying into the SLC airport from Japan, and you are about 15 feet off the ground and you think, "If the plane goes down, I might survive".

And knowing you don't have to get on another plane in the foreseeable future.

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Everything Else / Re: Run for your Life! June 16-17
« on: June 14, 2006, 01:19:35 PM »
Oh, I wasn't implying that I didn't feel invited by you all.  Just that it seems there are always events that my publisher is involved in, or sponsoring, and many of the authors attend them, and I hear about them after it's over...

Maybe I'm their red-headed step child.  :)

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Everything Else / Re: Run for your Life! June 16-17
« on: June 14, 2006, 12:59:53 PM »
Mustard, is this the company you work for during the day, or the one you work for at night after you put on your stretchy pants and mask? (your publisher)

I'm just curious because it seems like the latter company (your publisher) has all of these things going on, and I never hear word one about them.  I feel like the kid on the sidelines hoping against hope that somebody will invite me in to play, but invariable I end up feeling like an idiot, and just stare at the bugs in the grass until the bell rings (not that that has ever happened to me personally).

Anyway, just wondering.

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Books / Re: The Heirs of Steinbeck
« on: June 13, 2006, 06:27:17 PM »
Just wait until 2038, when his works are in the public domain.  Unless, or course, they keep extending the copyright term every 20 years, to protect Micky Mouse.

Curses to you Sonny Bono...  

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Matthew Buckley / A bit of personal news.
« on: June 06, 2006, 08:02:10 PM »
So, as many of you know I was raised in a family of 10 boys and one girl. I wrote a book based on the experience, and am currently working on a sequel.

Well, as luck would have it, I have four boys of my own. Well, my wife and I are expecting in October, and we found out today that we have... another boy. Can't seem to figure out how to make a girl, but we're very happy, and have many hand me downs ready and waiting in the wings.

I guess we've officially hit yahtzee.

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Everything Else / Post your favorite podcasts...
« on: May 31, 2006, 02:16:45 PM »
I apologize if this has been done, if so, just point me to the link.

Podcasts I enjoy/listen to.

The DiceTower (board game podcast)
Ebert and Roeper (I never watch the show, but never miss this one)
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell me (NPR Goodness)
Mormon Stories
TWIT (This week in Tech, THE best tech podcast)
Cranky Geeks (Dvorak makes it worth listening to)
KCRW The Business (Hollywood happenings)
And of course, They Might Be Giants Podcast.

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Everything Else / Re: I love my Ipod
« on: May 31, 2006, 02:14:14 PM »
I too love my ipod, and am a 'non-conformist'.  However, when I listen to my iPod, I'm listening to music only about 10% of the time.  I'm a podcast junkie.  I never listen to the radio anymore.  

Maybe I'll start a favorite podcast list, since I'm always looking for more...

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Everything Else / Re: Viewpoint Diversity in Academia
« on: May 25, 2006, 07:32:01 PM »
The 'Right' tends to spend tax dollars on corporations.  The Left tends to spend money on government programs (this is not always true, but generally true).

Who pays the bill for higher education?  And who pays for a good deal of the research  that professors do?  The government.  So preaching a conservative line in academia is tantamount to begging your boss to fire you, because you're just not that vital to the company.

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Everything Else / Re: The philosophy of review-writing
« on: May 23, 2006, 12:53:14 PM »
Me never uses 'I' in when I write.   My thinks it just doesn't make any sense.

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Everything Else / Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
« on: May 19, 2006, 02:22:26 PM »
Well, I started counting from kindergarten.  I'm 33.  

If I had know then that I only had another 30 years of school to go, with just a few breaks here and there, I would have given up and dropper out in first grade.

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Everything Else / Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
« on: May 19, 2006, 12:46:41 PM »
Well, that 28 years has been riddled with 'time off'.  Two year stint in Florida, a semester here to work, and semester there to play.  A semester in Russia to do service, and then a three year flit into corporate America before coming back...  

But yeah, I'm now narrowing my focus in one area and hoping that somebody somewhere finds value in the fact that by the time I'm done with school, I'll know a whole lot about wikis, collaborative composition, and social software.

If not, hey, I love pizza, and I hear the delivery guys get to eat the pizzas that don't get paid for.

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Everything Else / Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
« on: May 18, 2006, 05:08:56 PM »
With apologies to Better Off Dead.  

I've been going to school for 28 years.  And I'm no dummy...

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