*beam* I sent email to my cover artist to say thank you, because, I mean, *wow*, and I thought I might not hear back from him, but in fact I did and he seemed very pleased that an author had taken time out to send him some positive feedback. I’ve asked if it’s okay for me to link to him, which I wouldn’t usually do, but Luna doesn’t seem to make much acknowledgement of cover artists, and I want to make sure that’s an HQ decision, not the artist’s. (I suspect the former, and will petition to get his name in on the copyright page, ’cause *I* always like to be able to find out who the cover artist is!) Anyway, that’s v. pleasing. :)
We made up characters for a new game last night. Christopher brought along a friend of his, a Captain in the Air Force whose name is Jack, so obviously we had a good time calling him “Cap’n Jack,” and going, “ARRR” a lot, in between reminding each other, “That’s *Captain* Jack!” And Christopher put forth his theory that the difference between a nerd and a geek was this: a nerd was someone with above average intelligence and limited social skills who used his intelligence to go into business and make a lot of money in a way no one else could think of. Bill Gates is obviously the prime example of a nerd, in this scenario.
A geek, in the meantime, was someone with above average intelligence and limited social skills who used his intelligence to memorize the entire Star Wars trilogy, or all of Farscape, or The Princess Bride, or some variation on that theme.
Given that we were all sitting around quoting Pirates of the Caribbean, we decided we were not at all in a position to argue. *giggle*
Anyway, so the game is Ted’s 1890s steampunk occult adventure that he’s been talking about running literally as long as I’ve known him. I’m looking forward to it. Should be fun. :)
Let’s see. Anything else? I read the first ARTEMIS FOWL book last night, and I was sort of underwhelmed by it. I didn’t believe the Artemis character at all, although I liked everyone else a fair bit. I’ll probably read the second one, just to see what I think. Oh, and on the reading topic, I also read THE COMPLETE BONE last weekend, all 1300 pages of graphic novel. I lost interest in reading it as it was coming out about halfway through, because the publication schedule was desperately irregular and the story moves at a novel’s pace, not a graphic novel’s pace. But having the entire thing in one ginormous volume to read was really extremely satisfying. I was very pleased with it. :)
And that’s about it!
miles to Lothlorien: 320
And the new player wasn’t completely traumatized? Wow, he’s tough!
Yah, _Artemis Fowl_ is one of those things that could be done well, but isn’t.
I think memorizing every detail of all 95629103463264 setting books and escalation guides for a White Wolf game should qualify one as a geek too.
The new player did remarkably well. :)
I’m not exactly sure why ARTEMIS FOWL doesn’t work. Well, except I didn’t believe that was a 12 year old kid, except for in the few instances where he actually acted like one…
And yeah, that’s another one of the examples Christopher had for being a geek. “Has memorized every rule in 20 year old game books.” :)
Yeah, I was distinctly underwhelmed by the Artemis Fowl first book…enough so that I’ve not picked up the other ones. I just didn’t buy the main character, which was a huge flaw.