Cough! Cough!
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elfsWell, the doctor says I'm not gonna die. He modified my cold drug regimen, so now instead of Dayquil I'm taking Robitussin Cold & Cough and 600mg of ibuprofen on top of that. Go psuedoephidrine! He also gave me 20mg of codiene to take before bedtime and that should be fun.
Someone noticed that Strawberries is already available on my website. Yeah, my mistake; I was upgrading some features of the display engine and accidentally uploaded the debugging version, which doesn't check the dates. My bad. I've fixed it, but since the story was already available I've chosen to leave it up.
The "minor upgrade" is that I've replaced the section separator, which used to be a custom image thing, with an ordinary <hr>, and have chosen to use CSS to make it look the way I want it to look. It looks great when rendered with a standard engine-- I recommend Mozilla.
The major change is that I have formalized the licensing agreements. For years the copyright notice has included licensing information: "You are free to reproduce these stories so long as you do not change the content, retain all attribution, and do not do so for commercial gain." This is now formalized as the
Someone noticed that Strawberries is already available on my website. Yeah, my mistake; I was upgrading some features of the display engine and accidentally uploaded the debugging version, which doesn't check the dates. My bad. I've fixed it, but since the story was already available I've chosen to leave it up.
The "minor upgrade" is that I've replaced the section separator, which used to be a custom image thing, with an ordinary <hr>, and have chosen to use CSS to make it look the way I want it to look. It looks great when rendered with a standard engine-- I recommend Mozilla.
The major change is that I have formalized the licensing agreements. For years the copyright notice has included licensing information: "You are free to reproduce these stories so long as you do not change the content, retain all attribution, and do not do so for commercial gain." This is now formalized as the
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Well, the doctor says I'm not gonna die. He modified my cold drug regimen, so now instead of Dayquil I'm taking Robitussin Cold & Cough and 600mg of ibuprofen on top of that. Go psuedoephidrine! He also gave me 20mg of codiene to take before bedtime and that should be fun.
Someone noticed that <a href="http://www.drizzle.com/~elf/journals/1031_087_000_Strawberries.html"><i>Strawberries</i></a> is already available on my website. Yeah, my mistake; I was upgrading some features of the display engine and accidentally uploaded the debugging version, which doesn't check the dates. My bad. I've fixed it, but since the story was already available I've chosen to leave it up.
The "minor upgrade" is that I've replaced the section separator, which used to be a custom image thing, with an ordinary <hr>, and have chosen to use CSS to make it look the way I want it to look. It looks great when rendered with a standard engine-- I recommend <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla</a>.
The major change is that I have formalized the licensing agreements. For <i>years</i> the copyright notice has included licensing information: "You are free to reproduce these stories so long as you do not change the content, retain all attribution, and do not do so for commercial gain." This is now formalized as the <a href=""http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/">Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0</a> license. This is now the standard license for all <i>fiction</i> on the website.
All factual information such as the Hanky Code and so forth are available using the Creative Commons <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/">Share Alike</a> license.
The code is licensed according to standard practice. In most cases, this would be the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU Public License</a>, except where otherwise specified. (I believe there is one licensed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/PythonSoftFoundation.php">Python License</a>, which is an approved open source license.
<i>This</i> webpage, my on-line journal, is under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/">Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0</a> license. You can quote my words; you may not mangle my ideas with them.
Someone noticed that <a href="http://www.drizzle.com/~elf/journals/1031_087_000_Strawberries.html"><i>Strawberries</i></a> is already available on my website. Yeah, my mistake; I was upgrading some features of the display engine and accidentally uploaded the debugging version, which doesn't check the dates. My bad. I've fixed it, but since the story was already available I've chosen to leave it up.
The "minor upgrade" is that I've replaced the section separator, which used to be a custom image thing, with an ordinary <hr>, and have chosen to use CSS to make it look the way I want it to look. It looks great when rendered with a standard engine-- I recommend <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla</a>.
The major change is that I have formalized the licensing agreements. For <i>years</i> the copyright notice has included licensing information: "You are free to reproduce these stories so long as you do not change the content, retain all attribution, and do not do so for commercial gain." This is now formalized as the <a href=""http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/">Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0</a> license. This is now the standard license for all <i>fiction</i> on the website.
All factual information such as the Hanky Code and so forth are available using the Creative Commons <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/">Share Alike</a> license.
The code is licensed according to standard practice. In most cases, this would be the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU Public License</a>, except where otherwise specified. (I believe there is one licensed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/PythonSoftFoundation.php">Python License</a>, which is an approved open source license.
<i>This</i> webpage, my on-line journal, is under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/">Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0</a> license. You can quote my words; you may not mangle my ideas with them.
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I enjoy it (2nd Post)
Date: 2004-02-25 11:15 am (UTC)Good-bye Kris - My thoughts.
Date: 2004-02-26 07:40 am (UTC)Re: Good-bye Kris - My thoughts.
Date: 2004-02-26 01:12 pm (UTC)You did read the "Editor's Postscript" of Goodbye, Kris, didn't you?
No, I think fawn is supposed to be a little mysterious, and personally I like it that way. That said, there is a bit known about fawn from reading the journals. The following is my personal observation. I've probably gotten quite a bit of this wrong. There may be some minor spoilers in it...
As far as I can tell, Fawn is a ... a ... thing. She (it?) is an extremely powerful (and omniscient?) being (race?) able to bend time and space. It (she?) chose Ken as it's proxy to Earth (possibly knowing of the resulting later encounters with the Ilerkin, Ritan, et. al.) and gave him the gift of her (its?) powers by creating the paradoxical loop* in which Fawn exists in Ken's timeline.
* I can't find the story where this actually happens (though I remember reading it), but it's alluded to near the end of "Starlight, Starbright, First Star I See My Life"
One little odd fact that I don't quite understand - Fawn is referred to both as Fawn Eldar (in The Courange of my Convictions) and Fawn Destiniere elsewhere. I have a couple guesses at the reason for this, but they might be too much of a spoiler.
2001 : A Space Oddesy? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/)
Re: Good-bye Kris - My thoughts.
Date: 2004-02-26 02:51 pm (UTC)No, until after I post that bit of rant on it. LOL
No, I think fawn is supposed to be a little mysterious, and personally I like it that way. That said, there is a bit known about fawn from reading the journals. The following is my personal observation. I've probably gotten quite a bit of this wrong. There may be some minor spoilers in it...
I just started reading it, so no I haven’t read into it thoroughly. I can see why Fawn should be mysterious to keep the reader coming back for more and to put the bit and pieces together on whom Fawn is or what? I hope there is some minor spoilers in it.
As far as I can tell, Fawn is a ... a ... thing. She (it?) is an extremely powerful (and omniscient?) being (race?) able to bend time and space. It (she?) chose Ken as it's proxy to Earth (possibly knowing of the resulting later encounters with the Ilerkin, Ritan, et. al.) and gave him the gift of her (its?) powers by creating the paradoxical loop* in which Fawn exists in Ken's timeline.
* I can't find the story where this actually happens (though I remember reading it), but it's alluded to near the end of "Starlight, Starbright, First Star I See My Life"
One little odd fact that I don't quite understand - Fawn is referred to both as Fawn Eldar (in The Courange of my Convictions) and Fawn Destiniere elsewhere. I have a couple guesses at the reason for this, but they might be too much of a spoiler.
Ok…mmm interesting. I’ll just have read it all to figure it out for my self to make my own assumption.
2001 : A Space Oddesy?
Yup that’s it….It’s been along time. Hay Thanks for commenting back. I really appreciate your views upon it.