Well, his name was Jim, but his friends still call him.... Jim.

[captainsblog]

What a smaller place the world is without the man. And yet so much better for his having been here for his 54 years on the planet.  Eleanor is now his final age; I'll hit it soon. If all our words and creations, past present and future, count for even a dribble of the love and fun he left behind, we will have done well.

You've seen the Google doodle, I'm sure. Apparently it's still being updated.  Moving your mouse, or fiddling with the ctrl, shift and caplock keys, give all of them basic movements.  But then there are the

Easter eggs.

Move your mouse around atop the red "O" guy. Only takes a few seconds before you'll see it.

Or just hold it steady on the gangly green "L" guy. Five seconds or so later, he'll get the L outta there.



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Speaking of Easter Eggs: I'm into Ready Player One. It has some. Also, it has a veritable butt-ton of my late teen-early 20s pop culture. I didn't play any of the home video games or RPG's, but I know from most of the movie/tv/music references, and the arcade games at crucial moments are epic (although how could he cite to Joust without using the words "buzzard bait," I ask you?). All in all, it's a merry mix of everything from The Matrix to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with references to the usual sci-fi legends plus Pratchett, Adams, Gaiman and Card- and, so far, at least one TARDIS.

I only have the book for a week, so I'd better keep at it, or it's gonna be GAME OVER PLAYER ONE.

Comments

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

I've got the photograph of Jim Henson and Kermit that was used in Apple's "Think Different" campaign back in the late eighties. At some point when I have a proper den I want to have it mounted and framed.

He is still missed.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I need to read that; the author is a friend/correspondent of a friend of mine, and also, it is Up My Alley.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

You should lend out your Irregulars to him, then. There's a MAJOR continuity error on page 186, which implies that #2 Major Character knows something about #1 that she does not know until much nearer the end.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

His publisher really should've caught and fixed that...

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

What, exactly, IS the edit-quette in these situations?

I usually shy away from correcting other writers' grammar/typos/whatever (unless, yaknow, I'm EDITING them, in which case I'll hunt them down well after the final proof), but unless I'm missing something, this is a flat-out Oops, referring to Character One by Name A rather than correct-in-context Name B, that has lots of potential to confuse readers. Should I email the author? Publisher? Agent? Or just wait for the wheels on the bus-iness to go round and round on their own?

[firynze.livejournal.com]

To ignore it, really. The author can't do a damned thing about it, and the publisher won't, so pointing it out really just makes people unhappy and angsty, with no ability to remedy the situation.

This is why I hate it when people point out proofing errors (not factual errors) in the magazine. I can't FIX it now, and it just makes me feel bad.

It sounds like this is not an error of proofing, though, and actually a Big Mistake, which means you might consider emailing Cilne himself if you can find an address or form to do so.