| Encyclopedia Updated |
[Oct. 19th, 2009|11:10 pm] |
http://bookoffluids.pbworks.com
Lots of revamping going on with the new home of the BoF including, but not limited to, the addition of Chapter 32 (thanks Mike). I hope to actually get to read the thing this week!
Seems to be some sort of conflict between pbworks and Firefox that makes text disappear halfway through large pages--usually on PC rather than Mac. Not sure how to solve for this at the moment, other than to chop up the chapters into sub-chapters.
Anyways, all comments and suggestions are welcomed and encouraged--as well as open editing of the wiki. Still in the process of changing some page layouts. Let me know if you have any questions. |
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| Doteasy Hosting |
[Sep. 2nd, 2009|09:34 pm] |
When bookoffluids.com expires this Friday, I don't know what'll happen to the site. I do have a backup that's a little less than 8.5 MB and I'm willing to email it to anyone who wants it.
My goal is to make the wiki the new home (http://bookoffluids.pbworks.com). I'm already thinking of ways to transfer our current chapters and gibberish in the most pain-free way possible. The ease of wiki editing seems inviting. I know the Encyclopedia is a mess; incomplete, in some cases, but I feel this might be healthy, in some strange way.
If anyone has any questions or concerns about the continued use of pbworks, let me know. |
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| Intervention. |
[Aug. 28th, 2009|06:42 pm] |
Okay, sorry to have to do this when you're apparently ill, Wally but I'm going to have to put my foot down now. The Book has been niggling in the back of my mind demanding completion. Poor Joe has been hosting a site for years. We started this EIGHT YEARS AGO. I want it finished before I have to start writing my thesis and you embark on your career as a tortured poet. Since unlike Otto you haven't had the good grace to resign, or even talk to me about it, these are the options I'm giving you.
1) Wrap up what you have into some kind of cohesive whole before the end of September (when my second academic year starts) and post it, whatever state it's in.
2) Give what you have to me and I will try to finish/tie it into something coherent.
3) Ignore this completely. I will take this to mean that you want me to finish the book and I will write both the final and penultimate chapter.
R.E. Concerns you raised to Joe.
a) Leave defeating Moebius to me. I will do my best with what you have given me. It's all I can.
b) We are pan narrans. We like happy endings. As we know, the only things that can truly end are stories, and even those are reincarnated until no-one remembers them. I started it, and I will finish it with the ending I see fit.
You have until the end of August to decide, then I will make the decision for you. |
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| Web Hosting Expiration |
[Aug. 7th, 2009|09:39 pm] |
Our Doteasy hosting plan expires again on August 31st, which isn't a problem. The problem is the domain bookoffluids.com, which needs to be renewed September 4th at the reasonable price of US$25.
Thing is, I don't see the point in paying for it anymore. That's not to say I don't care about The Book, I just don't feel I'm getting a fair return on my investment.
I've got an idea, however: rather than paying for a domain that only draws a very small crowd, we should use something more affordable (like free) to host our material, like a wiki.
So our PBwiki (now called PBworks, apparently) was once originally on a special plan I purchased that gave us some extra features and helped rid us of ads. Now, the cost is going up ($8 per user per month) and we just haven't done anything with those extra features. The gig is up on November 23rd.
I've been considering moving both wiki and chapters to wikispaces, and have actually done some preliminary work, or I could leave the Encyclopedia Fluidica where it is and just ad the stories and gibberish to PBwiki, however it turns out after the hosting plan changes. But I'm at a point where I cannot/should not make the decision on my own. That's why I'm asking for opinions, suggestions, solutions.
tl;dr I'm not paying to host anything BoF-related anymore. Solve for this. |
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| On Joel And Interlude... |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|11:34 am] |
I apologize. I've been with the sickness for the past few days, so forgive me if my congestion comes across in this post.
One of the observations I made in writing about Joel was that his goals and reasons for being have changed dramatically over the course of the past couple years since I first came up with the angel/demon. I think a good part of that evolution comes from my changing viewpoints of my personal faith over the years. It became difficult in the middle of the short story to deliver what I thought would be Joel's driving desire. At some points in the Book of Fluids, he simply wants to kill Oscar. In other points, he wants to "rejoin" with him in some kind of Vader/Skywalker-esque fashion. I think it got to a point that I didn't even properly understand how they came to be and what they wanted. Even as separate extremes, they both have their own opposing balances. Joel's typically nasty all throughout–just to varying degrees–but Oscar has moments where he is less than "pious" and not just due to the effects of the Soul Mirror.
Also, having read recent developments, I've started taking a real hard look at Interlude... I had always been under the impression that the piece was supplemental and not required reading--moreso believed that based on the fact that so much of it seems like inside jokes. And I'm on the outside.
But my first clue that I should have taken better notice comes with Geschichte der Palantenna, where it recounts Lord Gauss' confrontation with Lady First Critic Ninqueriel, ruler of Palantenna, daughter of Anaxerretibes.
Of course, I've always been confused as to where the Pyramid is. First, Mihai Costescu finds it on the home planet of the Chamaleen. Then it's orbiting Gamazoha Prime on OCON-G. Then we find out it's been on far off Palantenna for centuries upon centuries? Was this one of those evolutionary writing developments that are a natural result of the project, or am I mistaking the Pyramid for something else? After all, they don't come right out and say Pyramid, they say [cube upon the rock?].
Then I'm certain there's other small details hidden within the remainder of Interlude... but I just haven't had the opportunity to delve further. |
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| Wally. |
[Mar. 19th, 2009|06:57 pm] |
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Seriously. How long now? If you don't finish before I have to start writing my thesis, I will finish the book myself. You have two years. |
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| Excuse me gents. |
[Sep. 26th, 2008|06:05 pm] |
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Wally, ET fucking A on your chapter? |
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| when all else fails make some sense |
[Jun. 28th, 2008|07:38 am] |
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I read once in the Necronomicon that in Cthulhu's language there is an action, ng'fhtagn'h; or "with-dreaming". For my words in the liber fluidorum, this is the left-hand orb of irrecumbent numinousness.
The right-hand orb is, as the permutators have taught, the process making sense of itself as a multitudinous, baroque cosmology to learn limitation and appreciation by enumeration.
As all limited expression of infinity is but one of many cries in wide darkness, such as of lashing horsepersons, thought of publication had never occurred me. With one hand, as I said, is imparted the social joy of dreaming among friends, in such a fashion as in one of myriad roleplaying games of beauty and glory that have come and gone in my time. In all such games nothing world-lasting is built, but rather things are made to dance and to serve for a brief while, before melting back into the clouded valleys between our cyclops-homing mountains. What dreams, but the most despairing, are consistent across the night? Thinking thusly I may have erred, and so poisoned the grounds with inconsistency, with overabundance of reference (are there enough lilies to weep over so many nameless graves?) and with broken threads. But that I thought, and planned little, but moved my brush by moments' impressions to move and dazzle my fellows, because so humble were the pretensions.
With the other hand, as I said, is imparted the knowledge outside truth that the book wrote itself upon the fabric of our lives and mine, not as a lower reality but as an elsewhere that is also home. Verily I doubt Klot or Corso ever shuddered as I have been made to shudder contemplating what I -- when being more foolish than usual -- claim to have written, as if I had freedom or control. And once granted these realities cross-influence, I have navigated into troubling paradoxic straits of cosmology, which I can but slowly negotiate: the unstoppable cunning of Moebius' plan and my delay in finishing my contribution coincide, for reasons the second paragraph of this essay explains.
And these explain why a) I never considered publishing, and so wrote in a careless way that would be nightmarish to revise unto publication, but I'm not against it; and why b) the end of XXXII eludes me still. |
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| Serious Business |
[Jun. 27th, 2008|07:11 pm] |
It's no secret that I've often fantasized about seeing the Book of Fluids in a published format. In some instances, I've even entertained the idea of the epic becoming an animated series--particularly in the vein of animation quality seen in the Ghost in the Shell series.
This is where I force myself to approach this equation with some kind of logic. Perhaps I'm reaching too far for this. I'm of a school of thought that if you want something bad enough, you can achieve it--but it'll take a lot of hard work and dedication and the more you strive for something, the greater chance you have of succeeding. I know the world doesn't always work this way, but the odds are in the favor of someone who actually DOES something as opposed to the individual who does nothing.
As one-fourth of the creative force behind the story, I realize that my culture has an influence in my desire to get something back from the Book, and I wonder if I might be offending my Fellow Fluidologists with this "American capitalist" view. After all, we started the Book solely for fun and our own personal amusement. It was never intended to be something that could be published, and to desire such a thing, while not necessarily bad, would definitely call for a reordering and overall restructuring of the Book as it stands. And in doing so, would the messages that some of us have explored and attempted to convey in our writing continue to ring true in adjusted material? It's certainly something I wouldn't want to do without the consent of others. In the end, I would strongly desire a finished product that all could agree with and understand.
One day, many years from now, the Book of Fluids will probably cease to exist. Personally, I'd like to see a return on the time and effort I've put into the Book, but not merely financially. I want to see people read the Book (or watch it) and enjoy it. I want to hear people talk about the story and what they enjoyed (and perhaps what they didn't). I want to entertain people, to enlighten them, to make them think, and I feel that the Book does that now and could do that (after a rather thorough editing, of course, to avoid copyright infringement, mostly).
Am I right or am I wrong? |
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| French Bread |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|10:23 pm] |
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The History Channel is running an episode of Cities Of The Underworld featuring the Mob Underground of Chicago, including, but not limited to, The Green Mill.
Ah, the nostalgia. |
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| Woah |
[Mar. 7th, 2008|07:44 am] |
I just a had a dream someone e-mailed me and told me I should at least have warned them we were never going to finish the Book. I was deeply offended and insisted we were, it would just take us a while.
Weird. |
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| srsly |
[Feb. 22nd, 2008|01:52 am] |
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k guys ui'm totally finishing this soon OK :o
liek one week ten days max :O
u may get excited if yu watn :OO! |
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| Dear Fluidologists |
[Jan. 16th, 2008|12:14 am] |
Should I get Vinny's cheek mark tattooed on my left shoulder? I have considered this for some time, and was reminded of it recently. Or is this rather tacky and self-aggrandising of me? Note also that I have no pain tolerance and have no ink on me so far. Also I might later regret it when I am forty or something. However, it is kinda cool.
Thoughts? |
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| (my bits of the) BoF in a nutshell |
[Nov. 26th, 2007|10:43 pm] |
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The Marionettes Of Distant Masters
(Russell Edson)
A pianist dreams that he's hired by a wrecking company to
ruin a piano with his fingers . . .
On the day of the piano wrecking concert, as he's
dressing, he notices a butterfly annoying a flower in his window
box. He wonders if the police should be called. Then he thinks
maybe the butterfly is just a marionette being manipulated by
its master from the window above.
Suddenly everything is beautiful. He begins to cry.
Then another butterfly begins to annoy the first butterfly.
He again wonders if he shouldn't call the police.
But, perhaps they are marionette-butterflies? He thinks
they are, belonging to rival masters seeing whose butterfly can
annoy the other's the most.
And this is happening in his window box. The Cosmic
Plan: Distant Masters manipulating minor Masters who, in turn,
are manipulating tiny butterfly-Masters who, in turn, are
manipulating him . . . A universe webbed with strings!
Suddenly it is all so beautiful; the light is strange . . .
Something about the light! He begins to cry . . . |
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| Information Overload |
[May. 25th, 2007|01:13 pm] |
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If I might be so bold to point out the Summa Fluidus in our wiki, which is essentially a heavily revised version of the Summeria. Please view at your leisure and edit at your preference.
Miss Sakurafu: I may have taken too many liberties, as I'm prone to do, so please feel free to smack my Editor Notes or blatent edits into place if you feel they are out of line.
... 624 wiki pages total... I'm glad I've got a lot of free time... -_-; |
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