{"id":181,"date":"2005-09-16T13:02:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=181"},"modified":"2005-09-16T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T21:02:35","slug":"new-ilifeboxi-website-writing-notes-new-capow-podcast-of-a-new-sf-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/new-ilifeboxi-website-writing-notes-new-capow-podcast-of-a-new-sf-story\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lifebox<\/i> Website , Writing Notes , New CAPOW, Podcast (?) of a New SF Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I got my first printed copy of The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul<\/i><\/a>. It looks great. If you want to help me out, please go on Amazon<\/a> and advance-buy a copy now. The sooner they get some sales, the better off I’ll be.<\/p>\n

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WARNING. Some negatively energized individual at a place called the “Reed Business Group” (specializing in “business to business services”) wrote a horrible review of my Lifebox book for Publisher’s Weekly<\/i>, and Amazon has a contractual deal with PW<\/i> that they print the PW reviews first. The attack is so uninformed and inaccurate that I’m guessing there’s something about my politics that teed-off this little b-to-b drone, who takes umbrage at my having met Tim Leary. Help me out of this minicrisis by ordering the book now<\/i>, lest the Pig smother my Magnum Opus in its cradle. That CA image above shows my crying towel…<\/p>\n

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There’s better comments and reviews on the Lifebox web site<\/a>, which I’ve been spiffing up of late. In the process I made a nice new build of my CAPOW program with about a 100 Meg’s worth of good pattern files to load; the big *.CAS pattern files have multiple CAs in them. You can download the new build of CAPOW by using the Download Software button on the Lifebox page.<\/p>\n

The first CA group shown today, was “The Kind Rain.CAS,” the next is “AintPaint.CAS,” and the one below is “LuckyNumber.CAS.” Each of these images goes with one of the short-short stories that separates the chapters of my Lifebox<\/i> book.<\/p>\n

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One other bonus on the newly upgraded Lifebox web site<\/a>: a 66,000 word PDF of my writing notes for the book!<\/p>\n

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My blog's not broken, I’m just distracted. I got a new IBM\/Lenovo Thinkpad X40, and getting that working the way I wanted took some time. It’s a nice machine. While it was on its way, I could check its progress from Shanghai to Oakland to Los Gatos. The computer stork flying here from China.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been driving around a lot, going to Fry’s for this and that. I picked up a SONY IC recorder, it records about 2 and a half hours of stereo onto a chip that I can then, after a number of intricate computer acrobatics convert into an mp3 file.<\/p>\n

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If I took pictures of my California surroundings with the energy I bring to foreign countries would it look interesting? Gosh, look at all those cars<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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I saw a cute baby in Starbucks. Kicking and rocking and reaching for his hanging toys. I’m hanging out in coffee shops more, now that I have the laptop.<\/p>\n

I was planning to record my lecture in my philosophy course at SJSU yesterday, but of course the switch was off for the first half. But I did get a file of me reading a draft of a new SF story I’m working on, “Chu and the Nants”. I had posted the 35 Meg stereo 128 kbps MP3 of me reading a new SF story and discussing it with students here for a few days, and got some feedback from my helpful readers about how the audio sounded (not great) and how I might upgrade posting an mp3 on a RSS enabled site into a true podcast. But now (Sept 23, 2005,) having mailed off the story last week, I learn the story has been accepted by Asimov's SF Magazine<\/i> (hooray!), so I don't want to muddy those waters by leaving the low-fi draft-version audio up.<\/p>\n

By the way, “Chu and the Nants” is, in a way, an Answer Song responding to a concept in Stross’s Accelerando<\/i> that really bugs me, to wit, the idea that it might be “reasonable” to grind Earth up into a Dyson sphere of nanomachines capable of running us all as agents in a virtual Earth that’s “just as nice.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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