Diane Duane: Ok, so where were we? :)
kli6: :D
Diane Duane: (Heh.)
Diane Duane: You wouldn't believe the ruckus my desktop has been making for the last half hour.
Garrett Fitzgerald: lol
Diane Duane: (ding BONG aoooga aoohga etc.
magicmaster: wow that like 45 minutes passed by really fast
Lazy Leopard: All those alarms... ;)
Mousey: And hi DD!
Garrett Fitzgerald: How many widgets did you wind up with? :-)
mysss: lol
KitRodriguez: Alarms are good.
Diane Duane: GF - I stopped at 3.
KitRodriguez: I couldn't wake up in the morning without one.
Garrett Fitzgerald: Just as well. :-)
Gigo: Heh. Dai, DD.
Diane Duane: KR -- I wouldn't know if I'd say they're *good*, but I need them.
Diane Duane: Hey gigo!
kli6: See... this is why you NEED an iPod Touch... for the alarm clock...! :D
magicmaster: alarm clocks are annoying, but usefull
KitRodriguez: I need them too LOL
Diane Duane: Meanwhile I am far gone in teh fangirl thing. Stephen... Fry... is... BLOGGING!
Lazy Leopard wakes up to Radio 4... eventually.
kli6: OMG, yes!!!
kli6: I love his blog!
Garrett Fitzgerald: Heh. Have to check that out...
Diane Duane: And he's a geek! It's almost too much to ask for.
kli6: I was just pondering to myself that I needed to read more Hazlitt-like stuff, and bam!
mysss: I think abpout two people would come to my school without alarms
kli6: It's weird. I've known he was a geek for ages.
Garrett Fitzgerald: Diane, what's the currently-announced release schedule at the moment?
Mousey: Alarms are evil. I have mine set to 6:15, and I swear, one day it's going to give me a heart attack. But it makes sure I get up at 7 like I need to, and I THINK it wakes my mum up.
kli6: Ever since the early days of the internet, when he told us off for being arrogant UNIX weenies. :)
Diane Duane: Kli -- Heh heh.
kli6: (We needed the lecture).
Garrett Fitzgerald: Yeah, that could do it... :-)
magicmaster: lol speaking of geeks, there is this girl that has made a million dollars off of her website, when she initially invested 8 dollars into it
kli6: And that he performed IT miracles to get the Sense & sensibility screenplay recovered from a hard drive disaster for Emma Thompson. :)
KitRodriguez: I need alarms ... I'm immune to the birds chirping and the sun rising ...
KitRodriguez: How did she do that magicmaster?
Garrett Fitzgerald: Darn, now I wish I had been paying attention. :-)
mysss: well congrats on being able to get up after those happen
kli6: I loved the line in his blog: "I never met a PIM I didn't buy."
magicmaster: I have no idea
Garrett Fitzgerald: LOL
KitRodriguez: I wish I could make 8 million like that ... *snapsfingers*
KitRodriguez: wow
magicmaster: I'm guessing the adds and stuff on her site, KR
Diane Duane: (snort) Ah, BBC3. How can I resist a show called "Help me, Anthea, I'm Infested"?
Mousey: KR: I am of the opinion that open windows are evil.
kli6: DD: have you see Sarah Jane Adventures, yet?
magicmaster: lol mousey
kli6: seen
mysss: XD mousey
Diane Duane: Oh, never mind, I saw this one the other night. Lady has mice & screams a lot.
Diane Duane: Kli -- Haven't seen them yet. Seen the ads, though.
Mousey: And that curtains are evil, too, but I can't live without 'em.
mysss: curtains...?
magicmaster: lol mousey, curtains are evil
kli6: It's like oldtimey Who as recharacterized by Nickelodeon. It's fun!
Diane Duane: Cool thing from this "infested" show: Rat traps that text you when they've caught something.
KitRodriguez: windows and curtains ...
Garrett Fitzgerald: Nah, closed windows are evil. I need my fresh air...
kli6: omg.
mysss: lol
Garrett Fitzgerald: Ooh, cool. :-)
kli6: "empty me!"
mysss: are you serious?
Mousey: DD: I have a question from my mum on what you were writing instead of being in chat: Was it the Big Meow?
Diane Duane: Kli -- Slightly gross, but very useful. Yeha, like that. Also ID's the location.
mysss: XD kli
kli6: Or just "whack!"
Diane Duane: So you can see where the rats are coming from.
KitRodriguez: Poor mice.
kli6: yeep.
KitRodriguez: I mean poor rats
Diane Duane: Mousey -- greetings to your mum and tell her "Yes."
Garrett Fitzgerald: *applauds*
Gigo: Hey, DD, I hear you're coming to Surrey soon?
Garrett Fitzgerald: Dai, Rhi
mysss: dai rhi!
Rhi: Dai everybody!
magicmaster: hi Rhi
Diane Duane: And also some other things. Got asked to do another YA novel.'
KitRodriguez: What are you writing DD?
Diane Duane: Gigo -- The one outside Vancouver, yeah. Not next weekend but the one after.
Garrett Fitzgerald: Cool. Can you give details yet?
mysss: I finally read the bookof night with moon and now know where your name comes from :D
Diane Duane: It's for a series of novels about how it si to live in various countries. They asked me to do the Irish one.
Garrett Fitzgerald: Huh, interesting.
mysss: hmm
KitRodriguez: That's cool. I want to visit Ireland ...
magicmaster: same
Diane Duane: Working title is UCHANNA'S APPLES: we'll see if it flies.
Garrett Fitzgerald: My parents have been there twice, I think. Doubt I'll ever have the money saved up. :-(
KitRodriguez: I don't think they'd have a problem with the apples part ... Uchanna is the main character?
Rhi: I'd love to visit pretty much anywhere in Europe...
KitRodriguez: GF: I keep thinking I should just stowaway on a boat or something ...
mysss: yeah, I plan to go there sometime
magicmaster: lol
Diane Duane: Kit -- Yeah. She's Irish, but because she's black (Nigerian mother) she has some problems here. Irish people are just starting to get used to the idea that you can be black and Irish at the same time.
mysss: huh
Rhi: hmm
Diane Duane: Garrett -- Prices are dropping for airfares. I wouldn't give up yet.
magicmaster: I'm uncomfortable to fly right now in America
KitRodriguez: DD: True ... I think it's like that everywhere people having problems with people from other ethnicities being ... something else. Even American, and we're the great melting pot.
Garrett Fitzgerald crosses fingers
kli6: I still have a problem believing the Irish surf. :)
KitRodriguez: It'd be more adventurous on a boat ...
KitRodriguez: but a plane would be faster.
magicmaster: I hate boats more the planes
Lazy Leopard: Exchange rate's good for visiting the USA at the moment. Not so good for coming the other way. :/
KitRodriguez: What?
Diane Duane: KR -- Problem was that until, say, the last twenty years, there were just almost no black people living in Ireland. Black people were who you sent charity money away to, for that whole generation of Irish.
Garrett Fitzgerald: mm: I flew last month, and I was swearing under my breath most of the time. :-(
KitRodriguez: Boats are soo cool. The sea the air ...
Diane Duane: And then all of a sudden -- they're here! And they're computer programmers!
Rhi: :)
Garrett Fitzgerald: Whatever happened to flying boats, anyhow?
Diane Duane: A lot of Irish people were, uh, thrown off.
mysss: wow XD
Rhi: Flying boats?
Diane Duane: GF -- Oh, geez, they're all gone. I wish they'd come back.
magicmaster: GF -- lol
Garrett Fitzgerald: DD: those kind are smart enough to use computers? I had no idea....
KitRodriguez: DD: I keep hearing about problems in Europe with deportation and stuff ... in Austria this girl was deported who'd been living there for a while now.
mysss: um, I dunno
kli6: Hey, folks still have a problem believing I can be Chinese and American. "Where are you from?" and "Where were you born?" are still supposed to be equivalents about ethnicity...
Diane Duane: There is a museum for them at the old flying boat base at Foynes.
Garrett Fitzgerald: Rhi - airliner-sized seaplanes.
KitRodriguez: DD: I think it's sad that people are so against immigration everywhere ... not just in the states.
Rhi: Oh...
Diane Duane: KR -- The laws vary from country to country.
Garrett Fitzgerald: Or floatplanes, I guess I should say...
mysss: why?
mysss: what's the difference?
Diane Duane: KR -- I think they're mostly just confused, here. You have to also remember that for a long time this country was very poor and nobody *wanted* to come here.
Rhi: Okay, I was imagining the ships from "Treasure Planet" or something. Then again, I'm not sure if anyone here has seen that...
Diane Duane: Rhi -- I saw it. Loved that film.
magicmaster: I'd love to visit Ireland
Rhi: Yeah, totally awesome :D
magicmaster: but I'm poor
Garrett Fitzgerald: Really? I was afraid to go see it, figured it would be a waste of money like Atlantis.
Diane Duane: MM -- Bring money. :) Dublin is expensive. In fact the whole country is now expensive, now that it's become well-to-do/
mysss: hmm, I don't think I've seen it
Rhi: Oh come on, Atlantis wasn't too bad...
mysss: possibly something similar-sounding
KitRodriguez: DD: I hope people's views change. I think everyone is just afraid of losing their national identity.
Diane Duane: Garrett -- I rather liked it. There are some hysterical moments.
Mousey: I think I saw Treasure Planet a while ago.... Can't remember anything much.
KitRodriguez: Everywhere is expensive ... *cries*
Garrett Fitzgerald: Rhi: explain to me how the Shepherd's Journal got back up to the surface. :-)
Diane Duane: KR -- People are adapting...but it takes time.
Rhi: Um, it floated?
KitRodriguez: I love Treasure Planet.
mysss: who wrote it anyway?
mysss: some explorer?
Garrett Fitzgerald: Oh, yeah, I liked Atlantis when I was watching it, but on reflection, the implausibilities bugged me too much.
magicmaster: KR -- I know everywhere is expensive. Even in the state of michigan everythings about to go up
KitRodriguez: I read what you wrote about Mrs. L'Engle, and I thought it was very pretty, I meant to mention that. I've loved her books and I was very sad to hear she died.
Rhi: Ha ha, now I've got the Treasure Planet theme stuck in my head XD
magicmaster: what with Michigan just barely avoiding a partial gov. shutdown
KitRodriguez: The funny thing is I was reading "Many Waters" at the same time as I was reading A wizard Abroad and ... I started to wonder if you'd ever read her books.
magicmaster: and income tax raised to 4.3% and I'm guessing sales tax rising to 7%
Rhi: Oh, I love Madeline L. Engle...
Mousey glares at the space where AWAb should be on her shelf, and wonders where to get YW books...
KitRodriguez: Me too Rhi
Rhi: Try Barnes and Noble, Mousey.
Rhi: Or Amazon.com
magicmaster: Mousey -- my shelf is cluttered with books. I can't fit any more on there unless I want it to break
KitRodriguez: I think A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books.
Garrett Fitzgerald: Diane, at what point do you figure you can safely read Harry Potter? :-)
mysss: XD if only we had infinite money for books
Diane Duane: Now I'm going crazy trying to rmember the name of the Birtish actress who voiced the "cat" Captain in TP.
Lazy Leopard only read "A Wrinkle in Time" for the first time a year or so ago, after various friends started mentioning a TV dramatisation...
Diane Duane: GF -- Oh, five or ten years from nowl.
Mousey: I read Many Waters in the bathtub. Rhi: Need a canadian, offline store. Got any of those?
KitRodriguez: I love HP
Garrett Fitzgerald sighs. "That's why I keep playing the lottery, mysss. "
mysss: I just got a decent bookshelf, finally
Diane Duane: "British." Gaaah.
KitRodriguez: I think you can safely read HP now DD, they're nothing like your books. I love the different views of magic you both have.
KitRodriguez: Mrs. L'Engle too.
Rhi: DD-I'll check
mysss: I never knew I had so many books...
Diane Duane: KR -- All the same, I think I'llavoid it. At least until the publicity for my first YW movie is over with.
Mousey has a book shelf that has this big gaping hole of nothingness in the middle of the bottom shelf.... :(
magicmaster: YW movie...
KitRodriguez: So they are making a YW MoVie ... *dies happy*
Diane Duane: So that should be about five years anyway.
kli6: How goes the script?
Garrett Fitzgerald: Not a bad idea, I guess. :-)
magicmaster: Make sure they do not destroy the book DD!
KitRodriguez: I kept hearing about it but I thought it was rumor ... *sniffles*
Diane Duane: KR -- We're working on it. Nothing concrete yet, though. Like money having changed hands. So hold off on the dancing for a while.
magicmaster: who ever is producing it
Diane Duane: MM -- Nobody'll destroy anything. But it *will* be changed.
Garrett Fitzgerald: Diane, did you ever run into that story where you met Will Staunton in Heathrow? :-)
Diane Duane: MM -- Can't discuss that at the moment.
Rhi: Fred's still in it, right?
KitRodriguez: I know they'll make it ... your books are too good not to be made to film.
Diane Duane: GF -- Yeah, I did.
Diane Duane: Rhi -- Absolutely. Can't have most of the story without Fred.
mysss: what's it going to be? SYWTBAW?
Diane Duane: mysss: Yup.
magicmaster: but can't wait to see it, when it is released
Rhi: I just re-re-re-read that today :D
mysss: cool, so there's opportunity for a lot of movies
magicmaster: wow movies/shows for all my favorite books...amazing
mysss: and it won't be weirdly combined
KitRodriguez: They're making so many YA novels into films they have to make SYWTBAW too ...
Mousey: F-r-e-d! F-r-e-d! Where was that again... *grabs her copy of SYWTBAW and starts hunting through it*
Garrett Fitzgerald: One of the things that most ticked me off about the Black Cauldron was how they completely flipped the ending around -- are you going to be able to avoid that for SYWtBaW?
KitRodriguez: There's canon and then there's adaptations
Rhi: DD-Emma Thompson
KitRodriguez: I hope they stick to canon with your book DD as closely as they can.
Lazy Leopard: Just have to hope there aren't too many turkeys like the film of "Eragon"...
KitRodriguez: I haven't seen Eragon ... the book didn't do much for me.
Garrett Fitzgerald: ...and whatever they renamed The Dark Is Rising...
Rhi: Oh my gosh, don't even mention "Eragon" :p
magicmaster: They destroyed Eragon
KitRodriguez: GF: The seeker
mysss: they totally messed up Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy, I bet only half the people working on it even read the book
KitRodriguez: And I couldn't read the Dark is rising as a kid either ...
Garrett Fitzgerald rolls his eyes.
Diane Duane: GF -- Hold that thought, I have to get out and get in again. Chat window's acting up.
mysss: omg I forgot about that!
KitRodriguez: So all film adaptations are bad ...
Diane Duane: Oh, wait, now it's better.
Mousey: '"He forgot the high-energy radiation again," Kit said, tears constricting his voice to a whisper.' MM: The movie is better, actually. Eragon.
mysss: suppressed the memories...
KitRodriguez: LOL
Diane Duane: Rhi, thanks. That's right.
Rhi dives on Mousey
Mousey: It IS!
Rhi: Is not!
magicmaster: wow mousey, I just suddenly had like a flashback to reading that part
Mousey: I swear it IS!
KitRodriguez: I understand the need to adapt books to film ...
magicmaster: when you brought it up
Mousey: IT IS IT IS IT IS!
kli6: Yah, avoiding that one.
KitRodriguez: but when they just drop stuff ...
Rhi: Me too, considering I read it just a couple of hours ago :D
KitRodriguez: major stuff
Lazy Leopard: The rumours seem to imply that they've made even more of a mess of TDiR than they made of Eragon.
KitRodriguez: like Ron playing quidditch ... Grrrrrrrrrrrr
Mousey: Heeheehee.
KitRodriguez: I need to reread Mr. Pullman's book.
Mousey: What, in OotP? Keekeekee. i am never watching HP films again.
Rhi: The Golden Compass?
Lazy Leopard will probably go to see it just to see how little he recognises.
Diane Duane: LL -- That's what I hear. IN fact that's part of what made me miss chat last night -- I was between writing and answering some questions the mighty Cleolinda had for me. We were getting jointly furious over that film.
Mousey: The little I got of GoF was horrible.
magicmaster: It will be interesting to see what they do to WFR mini-series. It should be good, the director of spiderman is directing WFR mini-series...
KitRodriguez: DD: have you ever thought about doing a straight out Scifi YA novel? You know lasers and starships and things?
mysss: like, galbatorix qwas defeated at some point? all hge did was order people around
Diane Duane: KR -- Strangely, I've been planning a series like that for some time. Have to find a publisher.
KitRodriguez: Rhi: Yup. The movie comes out this X-Mas I think
Rhi: That should be good...
Garrett Fitzgerald wonders idly if Space Cops could be a successful movie series.
KitRodriguez: DD: YAY! I love sci fi and I always wondered if you would write something like that.
mysss: text... too fast... growing...
Rhi: I can't wait to see Iorek and the other polar bears :D
KitRodriguez: I don't know ... I keep seeing Kit & Nita on a starship and I thought ... well it doesn't necessarily have to be them.
Diane Duane: GF -- It might work. But I'd sooner avoid the rights entanglements, as it belongs mostly to other people.
KitRodriguez: Rhi: I love the polar bears ... but the ending was so sad.
Rhi: Have you read the rest of the trilogy?
Garrett Fitzgerald raises an eyebrow. Didn't realize that...
Gigo: Spoilers!
KitRodriguez: Rhi: Also since it's a trilogy ... we really won't get an ending. And no so don't mention spoilers please.
Diane Duane: GF -- Any time there's a packager involved, things get complex.
KitRodriguez: No spoilers Gigo. I only started Subtle Knife I never got far.
Rhi: Kit-don't worry, just wondering if you'd read it...
Mousey wishes she could teleport over to DD's house and insist that she signs her *almost* complete collection of YW books.... wonders what DD would think of that
Rhi: I read the trilogy out of order, so I kind of spoiled it for myself :D
KitRodriguez: Rhi: I have them all but ... I'm reading DD now.
Diane Duane: I have to say I really liked the version of the "Golden COmpass" screenplay that I read, but then it was Tom Stoppard, ferfeckssake.
KitRodriguez: I hate spoiling things for myself LOL Like I did with books 5 & 6 right now.
magicmaster: lol mousey
kli6: I wish they'd done the Stoppard version (sigh).
Diane Duane: However I think he became detached from the project more than a year ago now.
Gigo: *wonders if he can make it over to Surrey*
KitRodriguez: I love polar bears
magicmaster: I've never met an author in my life. No author comes to TC
Rhi: Especially warrior polar bears ;)
Diane Duane: Mousey -- if you did that, you'd pass out cold from the mess the place is in. Srsly.
KitRodriguez: Rhi: Yes, warrior polar bears!
KitRodriguez: with drinking problems ... no wait.
magicmaster: or at least I haven't heard of any author coming to TC
Diane Duane: TC being where?
Garrett Fitzgerald offers to come clean up. Always easier to clean someone else's mess than your own... :)
magicmaster: Traverse City, MI
KitRodriguez: Maybe Nita should get a polar bear. Kit has Ponch.
Mousey: Can't be worse than my room.. Clothes knee-deep... Not. But ankle deep in some spots.
Diane Duane: GF -- (snort)
magicmaster: My room is actually clean
KitRodriguez: Dair has Spot.
mysss: XD mm
magicmaster: house is a mess :P
kli6: Wait? The place isn't supposed to look like a laundry bag exploded?
kli6: Shoot. Reminds me. Laundry...
KitRodriguez: kli: LOL
Rhi: :)
mysss: I caught up!!
Gigo: So it's a foot deep, then?
Rhi: Way to go, Nick!
mysss: :D
mysss: *sigh* where to begin...
KitRodriguez: Polar bear wizards.
KitRodriguez: We've got whale wizards no?
magicmaster: god you know, there really needs to be a cafe/bookstore in kingsley or Fife Lake, with like Wi-fi
Rhi: Wow, that would totally pwn :D
mysss: my sis just started Golden Compass
mysss: :D
KitRodriguez: Antartica is in trouble
KitRodriguez: DD there's another book. Save the polar ice caps.
Rhi: The wizards should save Antartica!
KitRodriguez: I just wish it was that easy in real life.
Rhi: Dang, someone beat me too it :p
magicmaster: ooo Antartica, like the idea
Rhi: *to
Mousey: Yes, I do actually scatter my clothes on purpose. My feline employer likes it, and it keeps her off my pillow.
Diane Duane: KR --I think they may be working on it.
Rhi: And the rainforest as we're at it
Rhi: *while, not as
Rhi: Man, what is wrong with my grammar today!
KitRodriguez: I like water planets and all but ...
Gigo: *notes* This is good spaghetti.
Rhi: And somehow I don't think the coastal regions would appreciate it
KitRodriguez: I don't want to live underwater. Unless we build the cities there first not because the water buried us over.
mysss: I was surprised, since I read it in seventh or eighth grade, but
mysss: XD
Gigo: Rapture comes to mind.
mysss: could always go for floating cities
Lazy Leopard has a preference for tropical savannah...
KitRodriguez: Floating cities, yes. Like in Sci-fi stories.
kli6: So, DD, Big Meow update..?
mysss: pine forests forever!
Rhi: Floating cities have a tendency to, um, sink.
KitRodriguez: Atlantis.
Gigo: Like Chicago.
Diane Duane: Kli -- Working on it. (headdesk, headdesk)
Rhi: I prefer the tropics myself :D
kli6: Sorry Sorry!
Rhi: Or subtropics, anyways
KitRodriguez: desert wastelands.
Diane Duane: No, it's OK, I know everybody's wondering!
kli6: When it's done, it's done!
KitRodriguez: No that's where I live not what I like
mysss: no, that was a continent, not floating
Rhi: Okay, we have that too ;)
Rhi: desert wastelands, that is
Diane Duane: But life keeps interfering. Omnitopia, at the moment.
KitRodriguez: The polar bears save australia from sinking
kli6: Woot!
kli6: Work is good interfering.
Mousey: KR: ... Ooookaaaaay....?
kli6: how goe sthe MMORPG book?
Rhi: Australia's sinking? *had no idea*
Diane Duane: It is kinda fun, the Omni.
magicmaster: MMORPG book...
KitRodriguez: Well no one lives in Antartica.
kli6: Sweet...
mysss: XD
magicmaster: how much have I missed?
Diane Duane: No problem with the work. It's the getting paid that's interesting. :O
Rhi: Do polar bears live in the north or south pole?
kli6: [sigh]
KitRodriguez: North I know
kli6: Rhi: North.
KitRodriguez: South ... I don't think so.
mysss: north
kli6: No, I been to Antarctica. North.
KitRodriguez: but they could take an iceberg ...
Mousey: KR: Suuuure they don't. Hey, how cold does it get on Mars?
Rhi: Oh yeah, penguins are in the south, right
kli6: Right. Penguins south.
KitRodriguez: Penguin wizards
KitRodriguez: on mars
mysss: lol
Garrett Fitzgerald: Yeah, Shoggoths are in the south.
Rhi: Kli-you've been to Antartica?
mysss: sho-what?
Rhi: Shoggoths?
Garrett Fitzgerald: Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
mysss: :)
kli6: http://kli.freeshell.org/antarctica/
KitRodriguez: I need to read faster I want the next book when it comes out.
Garrett Fitzgerald slaps himeslf. "Sorry."
Lazy Leopard: Hmmm. Australia has some of the oldest rock on Earth. It's going to take quite a bit to sink that.
Diane Duane: Mmmm, the penguins might not like Mars. Wrong kind of snow.
KitRodriguez: WoM
Rhi: Show Goths what?
Diane Duane: Though there is snowboarding.
KitRodriguez: Just a thought ... DD. LOL
Mousey: Hmmm. Martians on Antarctica.... *goes off to think THAT one out*
mysss: snowboard down olympus mons...
magicmaster: lol
Mousey: Mysss: WHEEEE!
mysss: or that penguiny sliding-on-your-belly thing
magicmaster: lmao
Garrett Fitzgerald: Re: shoggoths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness
Diane Duane: myss -- Actually Olympus Mons isn't good for snow. I have another venue picked out.
KitRodriguez: mysss: like on Avatar.
magicmaster: wb lamae
KitRodriguez: I don't remember what they called it.
Lazy Leopard: Well, they've picked a few bits of Mars off the ice in Antarctica...
Rhi: Dai Lamae
KitRodriguez: Penguin sledding?
Diane Duane: hi Lamae!
KitRodriguez: hello Lamae.
magicmaster: grrr..just forgot what I was going to do...
mysss: dai
KitRodriguez: LL: from asteroids?
Lamae: *gasp* i'm off work during a chat with Diane Duane present!!
KitRodriguez: meteorites.
magicmaster: lol lamae
Lamae: Dai y'all!!
mysss: lol
Lazy Leopard: No. Ejecta from impacts on Mars falling as meteorites.
KitRodriguez: Wow.
mysss: I figured there wasn't snow there, but
magicmaster: can't wait to read AWoM
mysss: it was a nice idea
KitRodriguez: mm: Me too.
mysss: me too
Lazy Leopard: ...including the infamous one.
KitRodriguez: When's it coming out?
Diane Duane: Lamae -- Hey, it happens. :)
mysss: I'll have to reread everything first though
KitRodriguez: LL: There's an infamous one? The one that killed the dinosaurs?
Mousey: Hmmm. I wonder if the martians time those and ride to earth on the bits of mars...
magicmaster: yeah once I know the release date I'll begin reading the books over again
mysss: kr:on mars?
Lazy Leopard: No, I was thinking of the one they claimed to have found fossils in...
mysss: *kr: on
Lamae: :D- welll....it helps that it's on a sunday....which is my ONLY day off.
KitRodriguez: LL: I haven't heard of that one ... wow. No wait the little organism ones
Rhi: Wait, fossils from Mars?
mysss: XD
mysss: supposedly
KitRodriguez: Rhi: yeah, supposedly Mars had bacteria.
mysss: but they could have been from here, or caused byu water, or something, right?
Lamae: yeah.
Lazy Leopard: Rhi: Yeah. Until they thought a little more carefully about it...
Rhi: Well, supposedly it had water, too, so I guess that might work...
magicmaster: wow weird chat...we went from YW books, to movies/books, to penguins, to fossils on mars
Rhi: LL-what, was it a spoof or something?
KitRodriguez: Penguin wizards on mars
Rhi: Kit!
KitRodriguez: Rhi: I didn't do it.
Mousey: A penguin wizard of mars!
Lamae: wait....we're being subtly invaded by mars via asteroids???
magicmaster: lol mousey
Diane Duane: (headclutch) Sounds like that putative book title. "Golfing Nazi Cats."
KitRodriguez: The martians are coming LOL
mysss: what?
Lamae: LOL
mysss: putative...
KitRodriguez: I odn't know that I like Nazi cats.
KitRodriguez: Martian cats yeah
Rhi: I like cats but not Nazis
magicmaster: Golfing Nazi Cats, lol love the title!!!
KitRodriguez: mm: but why do they golf?
Diane Duane: Somebody, don't ask me who, did a study and found that apparently the three most popular topics for books wer egolfing, Nazis, and cats. So...
Diane Duane: (more headclutching)
Rhi: lol
mysss: rofl
KitRodriguez: DD: Oh. Instant best seller.
KitRodriguez: Wow. *goes off to write that book*
mysss: glofing?
Lamae: *stares* DD- You can't be serious.....
Mousey: Speaking of Nazis,there's this book that Daniel's Story that I'm reading in school, but *cry* MY EVIL TEACHER WON'T LET ME FINISH READING IT!
Lazy Leopard: Martian meteorite found in Antarctica in which researchers claimed to have found fossils --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALH84001
KitRodriguez: I thought it was dragons
magicmaster: hey I may right about that instead for my NaNo book
Mousey: book called*
KitRodriguez: why won't your teacher let you finish it mousey?
mysss: XD it would write itself, wouldn't it?
Diane Duane: Kli -- Hmm. Cleolinda reports that "The Seeker" did badly in its first-weekend numbers. $3.7 mil.
Mousey: Because the class is SUPPOSED to be reading it teogether. *makes a face*
KitRodriguez: mysss: Four!
Mousey: together*
kli6: DD: is it wrong to be happya bout that?
magicmaster: Golfing Nazi Cats on Mars!
KitRodriguez: Mousey, so read it at home.
mysss: XD
KitRodriguez: I can't believe a teacher owulnd't let you finish reading a book.
Lamae: hold up. people are writing spoofs of AWOM before its PUBLISHED??
Diane Duane: Kli -- Hmm.. mixed feelings. How fantasy films in general do will affect who SYW sells.
mysss: golfing nazi cat wizards from mars?
KitRodriguez: mm: with dragons
kli6: I'm still in mourning for the fact that Henson had the original option purchase on those books...
mysss: yeah, that stinks
magicmaster: lol mousey, I read books ahead all the time
Mousey: But I can't smuggle it home! And my mumKNOWS I'm nto supposed to read ahead.
mysss: XD
Diane Duane: I would hold my fire and see how "Golden Compass" does.
kli6: Don't forget Caspian next summer. :-)
KitRodriguez: Golfing Nazi Cats on Mars with Dragons!
magicmaster: lol mousey, I don't care what the teacher says
Diane Duane: Kli -- Too true. It would have been lovely had he gotten to the material while still alive.
mysss: erm, the mousey/book thing, not what you said
kli6: Golden Compass will do great.
KitRodriguez: Library Mousey. Fight the power!
kli6: They brought stuffed polar bears to Comic-Con! :)
Mousey: But I'm laaaazy.
KitRodriguez: Golden Compass will do great. I'm gonna go see it.
magicmaster: I read ahead when I'm not suppose to because everyone else is a slow reader
Diane Duane: Kli -- Yeah, Caspian's on my mind too. I have an informal date to go see Doug Gresham in Malta some time over the winter...
KitRodriguez: Mousey LOL
Lamae: *crosses fingers for golden compass* please PLEASE!! don't kill lyra like y'all did eragon!!!! NOOOOO!!!
Diane Duane: I want to talk seriously to him about the implications that might follow being approached by Walden.
kli6: Sweeeet.
mysss: yeah mm
KitRodriguez: I want to see Prince Caspian too.
mysss: i need to reread it
Diane Duane: Kli -- He used to be our neighbor. Lived just down in Carlow. I think he and Merry got sick of the weather.
kli6: The footage they showed at Con (previz) was amazing...if not in the book....
KitRodriguez: I can't believe I have to wait until next summer.
magicmaster: *runs to get more candy*
kli6: exactly.
Rhi: That's cool, they're making Prince Caspian? Awesome!
kli6: They're planning on trying for the whole enchilada, as far as I know.
KitRodriguez: adding story to books in films is ... erm ...
Diane Duane: The poster for Caspian is extremely handsome. Some of the nicest poster art I've seen in ages.
KitRodriguez: I'll buy that enchilada.
mysss: been like, what? four or five years? yeah...
KitRodriguez: I liked the one for Golden Compass too.
kli6: The costume designer was a hoot: "by the time we get to A HORSE AND HIS BOY--those actors will be in their twenties!"
KitRodriguez: I love polar bears.
mysss: i didnt know they were makiong that...
Rhi: I like enchiladas...
KitRodriguez: kli, that's what they've always said about HP
Diane Duane: KR -- I'm adding story. I don't see why others shouldn't if they come to it with the right tone of mind.
Mousey: Lamae: Are you begging for them to not ruin golden compass liek the ruined Eragon? :D They made Eragon better. *runs*
magicmaster: lol Rhi
KitRodriguez: Burritos are better Rhi.
Lamae: A horse and his elderly gentleman just doesn't fly with me......
kli6: I do wonder, though, if we're going to get a swing back to SF after the fantasy glut.
KitRodriguez: DD: Yes DD but you're the author ... you know your characters better than anyone.
kli6: In which case, YW is still a good bet as a property. :)
mysss: XD *chases*
Rhi: The boy wouldn't have been in any of the other movies, it's kind of a separate book...
KitRodriguez: Lamae: LOL cute.
magicmaster throws a burrito at mousey and says " They ruined Eragon!"
KitRodriguez: Rhi: true.
Diane Duane: Kli -- But by the time you get to HORSE, that's where you want thme! Don't forget the backstory about the wicked Calormene prince who wants to marry Queen Susan! It'll work better if it's legal in at least a few states. :)
mysss: yeah, rhis right
Mousey cackles evilly "They did nooot."
KitRodriguez: DD: Do you get script approval if there are rewrites?
kli6: DD: exactly.
Diane Duane: KR -- That's the plan.
Lamae: *Pulls out her PSOSD and chases down mousey*
Lazy Leopard: Of the Narnia books, "A Horse and his Boy" is probably my favourite.
kli6: That's what she meant. --Peter/Susan/Edward/Lucy are in their 20s int hat one.
Rhi tackles mousey
KitRodriguez: DD: Yay! As long as it's okay with you it's okay with me.
Lamae: They killed it i tell you!!!
Mousey licks Rhi
Mousey licks Lamae, too
mysss: i did a book report on that
KitRodriguez: Peter and the others aren't in A horse and his boy
Rhi twitches tail and pounces on Mousey again
Diane Duane: Oh gord, they're licking each other. Don't know if I'm old enough for this.
mysss: XD
kli6: DD: my sentiments exactly.
KitRodriguez: They wont' be back until Final Battle no?
kli6: I did try to exhort to keep the role-playing to a minimum... :)
mysss: the voyage one
Lamae: EWW! *pushes mousey away* Gerrroff
Lamae: !!
kli6: KR: go reread the book.
magicmaster dumps pepper on mousey
KitRodriguez: Dawn Treader doesn't have peter and susan
mysss: yep
kli6: The Pevenses (not all of them) are in Horse & His Boy.
mysss: was gonna say that
KitRodriguez: kli: they are you're right sorry
mysss: i cant read/write fast enought tho
Mousey grins at Lamae, eats pepper, swats Rhi off gently, and then runs for the kitchen
KitRodriguez: kli: with Cor and the others at the end.
kli6: decades of practice will keep your fingers nimble.
KitRodriguez: kli: sorry it's been a while
KitRodriguez: I thought it was only Lucy and Edmund ...
mysss: i was surprised- i actually know most of the keys but im really really slow at typing w/o looking
KitRodriguez: I'll go reread it, when I finish all the YW books.
Mousey: The did noooot ruin Eragon. They just made it over so much it's unrecognizable.
kli6: So, DD, er.... Wizcast? I think the blog might need to be updated... :)
mysss: need to practice sometime
magicmaster throws cheese at mousey
Mousey munches on the cheese
mysss: lol
Rhi: My family used to own the whole Chronicles of Narnia, but then some got lost and another got dropped in the toilet...yeah, pretty bad, huh :D
mysss: O_o
KitRodriguez: Rhi: how do you drop ...
mysss: lol
magicmaster: how...
KitRodriguez: in the toilet?
Garrett Fitzgerald: Oh, Diane, before you go... I CAN HAZ STARLIGHT? :-)
magicmaster: I don't want to know
Lamae: mousey-all the characters had the same names....end of similarities.
KitRodriguez: TV in every room
Rhi: Okay, I have to go voice lessons now. Dai!
mysss: I have the prequel only i t\hink
kli6: Thank you, Garrett! I didn't want to do it this time!
Diane Duane: GF -- You're cruel to me, you know that?
Lazy Leopard laughs at GF's LOLcat
mysss: dai rhi!
Garrett Fitzgerald: Just returning the favor. :-)
magicmaster: cya rhi
Lamae: dai
Garrett Fitzgerald: kli - My pleasure. :-)
Diane Duane: Kli -- Yup, noticed that, got some new stuff in the pipeline.
KitRodriguez: Bye Rhi.
kli6: Woot!!!
mysss: lamae: pretty much
Diane Duane: Many, many things happening. eBay working again, too.
magicmaster: wow its already been an hour O_o
kli6: Oh, btw. I had an odd thought for a YW project. Didn't know if you'd approve.
magicmaster: or about
magicmaster: rather
kli6: Since it might step on the toes of the wiki.
Garrett Fitzgerald: Ooh, ebay. Neat, have to keep my eye there...
mysss: when I heard avril lavuigne at the end credits I burst out laughing
kli6: But just going through the books and "cataloging" the Speech words.
Lamae: *gasp* *vows to run to ebay*
Lazy Leopard remembers comments at the York UniCon a few years back about Starlight... ;)
kli6: Good idea? Bad idea?
Diane Duane: Kli -- Mail me and we'll discuss it. Hey, why not step on the wiki? I do.
kli6: [grin]
Diane Duane: Must slip away now, guys. Michael Palin's "New Europe" is coming on in a few.
magicmaster: bye DD
KitRodriguez: It was nice to meet you DD.
mysss: dai stihó
Lazy Leopard will likely be watching same...
Lamae: oh. kay. bye then....
kli6: Bye!!
Diane Duane: Lamae -- It's mostly scarves and linens at the moment. Not books.
Diane Duane: Have fun for a while guys!
Garrett Fitzgerald: Dai, Diane! Thanks!
Lamae: good to meet you!
Lazy Leopard: G'night DD
Diane Duane: Kli / GF: room stays open automnatically till ten.
Diane Duane: Last one out turn off the lights... :)
Mousey: XD
Lamae: :D
Garrett Fitzgerald: Will do, Diane. :-)
KitRodriguez: : )
Diane Duane: (vanishes in small cloud of Europe)