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ONLY ANSWER THIS QUIZ IF YOU ARE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR:
Is it a signing tour if a publisher is flying you somewhere to sign books ... but there's only one stop, and no members of the public present?
Not an author of any kind, but getting strong Artie Fufkin vibes from this poll.
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Not an author of any kind, but getting strong Artie Fufkin vibes from this poll.
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@dragosmcmaster That's a video. I don't do video (and I don't touch youtube). What's it about?
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@dragosmcmaster That's a video. I don't do video (and I don't touch youtube). What's it about?
It's a reference to a scene in "This is Spin̈al Tap" in which the band is doing a record signing and nobody shows up. Artie Fufkin is a character played by Paul Schaeffer who is supposed to be promoting the record. The promotion has clearly failed, but not as bad as my attempt at humo[u]r.
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It's a reference to a scene in "This is Spin̈al Tap" in which the band is doing a record signing and nobody shows up. Artie Fufkin is a character played by Paul Schaeffer who is supposed to be promoting the record. The promotion has clearly failed, but not as bad as my attempt at humo[u]r.
@dragosmcmaster Oh, in my case the customers all showed up *months* ago—this is me going on tour to a rainy industrial estate near Dublin to sign the printed books for the kickstarter they all backed.
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ONLY ANSWER THIS QUIZ IF YOU ARE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR:
Is it a signing tour if a publisher is flying you somewhere to sign books ... but there's only one stop, and no members of the public present?
@cstross
Till I saw the comments I wondered if you were posing a hypothetical about Epstein. -
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ONLY ANSWER THIS QUIZ IF YOU ARE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR:
Is it a signing tour if a publisher is flying you somewhere to sign books ... but there's only one stop, and no members of the public present?
@cstross I’m a (or was) business book author. My publisher still wanted me to do readings and signings *at my own expense* for a book that netted them about 400 quid, mostly from libraries
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ONLY ANSWER THIS QUIZ IF YOU ARE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR:
Is it a signing tour if a publisher is flying you somewhere to sign books ... but there's only one stop, and no members of the public present?
The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
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The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
@cstross Hang on rule books? Did I miss a Laundry RPG?
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@cstross Hang on rule books? Did I miss a Laundry RPG?
@cstross @ross TIL the Laundry RPG is a thing and has a 2nd edition https://cubicle7games.com/our-games/the-laundry-roleplaying-game
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The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
@cstross You could make it a multistop tour if you can find books at the airport (if you fly) or in the city center and sign those....
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The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
@cstross
Surely a "tour" requires more than one port of call, by definition! -
The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
@cstross
What if the copies you're to sign are all props in an elaborate larp? -
ONLY ANSWER THIS QUIZ IF YOU ARE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR:
Is it a signing tour if a publisher is flying you somewhere to sign books ... but there's only one stop, and no members of the public present?
@cstross Disappointed to have missed this. I'd have voted "Hell, no!" if that had been an option, although I might have softened my position somewhat if there had been mention of having a Guinness in a Dublin pub after the signing.
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@cstross Disappointed to have missed this. I'd have voted "Hell, no!" if that had been an option, although I might have softened my position somewhat if there had been mention of having a Guinness in a Dublin pub after the signing.
@bodhipaksa I won't be staying in Dublin.
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@bodhipaksa I won't be staying in Dublin.
@cstross In that case I revert to the "Hell no" option.
How do you keep yourself sane while doing something like that? When I'd signed much smaller quanities than I assume you're signing I've found it incredibly boring.
That sounds like a tough gig. I hope your signing hand doesn't cramp too much.
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@cstross
Surely a "tour" requires more than one port of call, by definition!
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È arrivata la "bibbia" di Giovanni Lilliu.
Questo perché neanche tanto tempo fa @zabow (che ringrazio) aveva postato il link ad un interessantissimo documentario (in francese) sulla civiltà nuragica, con bellissime immagini e ricostruzioni virtuali. Da cui il dubbio: stai a vedere che l'organizzazione socio-economica dei nuragici era molto più avanzata di quella degli isolani attuali! 😄
Per togliermi ogni dubbio è tempo di studiare questa miniera di informazioni.
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la X in XMPP sta per estensibile, XMPP era stato creato con in testa il caso d'uso delle chat testuali degli anni 90, ma si è adattato facilmente alle chat testuali con allegati, videochiamate (1:1), connettività mobile e quant'altro degli anni 20, così come a molti altri casi d'uso di nicchia
farlo in modo che sia compatibile (per quello che riguarda le funzionalità comuni) con gli altri client potrebbe funzionare bene oppure no, non è obbligatorio, ma se fattibile darebbe dare dei vantaggi alla soluzione. oppure no, dipende dal caso d'uso specifico, e onestamente con discord non ho mai avuto a che fare per cui non posso sbilanciarmi sulla cosa.
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@tk honestly, ironing clothes is less of a chore than vacuuming :D (we usually do it a bit at a time with a rechargeable vacuum)
(and baking, considering a number of food restrictions, would have required too much prep time, ending up happening after the peak of electricity production)
(heat pumps for water heating have been postponed to “when we can save a bit more money for it, and hopefully the prices will have gone down a bit, because right now all of the quotes we're getting are (probably oversized but) extortionate”)
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Annuncio 📣Cerco lavoro alle Maldive in cambio di vitto e alloggio, se non c’è il lavoro va benissimo anche solo vitto e alloggio.
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Bacchetta? #RaiSport
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@valhalla i can recommend vacuuming the house or baking cake/casserole?
For the advanced users: Charging the EV or Water heating via heatpump
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@palin eh, okay Pidgin, ma pure quando arriva quello mica risolvi.
Cioè, XMPP è stato creato in un certo modo con un certo caso d'uso in testa e quello è perfetto. Non ha senso che venga "storpiato" per assomigliare ad altro, ecco.Il punto è che Discord era qualcosa di unico nel suo genere e per ora -a parte questo Fluxer che non so come faccia a non aver ricevuto delle note dai legali di Discord- non vedo cose sensate a colmare l'eventuale vuoto.
(Enfasi su eventuale, non credo succeda.)
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Anthropic è un'azienda americana di intelligenza artificiale con sede a San Francisco. Ha sviluppato una famiglia di modelli linguistici di grandi dimensioni denominata Claude. Sembra che sia entrata in contrasto con il Pentagono per gli usi bellici della sua intelligenza artificiale. Dal minuto 9 in poi potete saperne di più.
