Subject: Nothing but the best for DoSAT. (nm)
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Posted on: 2009-10-18 19:28:00 UTC
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Plug: Makes-Things' Last Hurrah by
on 2009-10-15 23:39:00 UTC
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Located here.
I am, in fact, not dead. I may not be uploading much else for a good while, though--busy busy busy with school. So, to make up for that, here's this: my finally-completed Makes-Things Project.
The idea is simple: give Makes-Things a proper final curtain. And it is exactly that, though the process of getting it there wasn't fast. This has actually been in the works, on and off, since late May, but it wasn't fully finished and betaed until late September thanks to rewrites, uncooperative muses, and procrastination.
Now, however, I've finished, checked, formatted, and uploaded it. I hope you enjoy reading it; it was a blast to write.
Very massive props go to Techno-Dann, not only for beta-reading this thing several times and lending a very new author the use of Dann, but also for supplying as many things as he could remember about the Macrovirus Invasion. Anyone else who helped contribute details of that day or information about macroviruses/the PPC/PPC gear also gets massive props, even if I can't remember exactly who did.
Lesser but still extensive props go to Cassie Cameron-Young and Neshomeh, for being enthusiastic and helpful beta-readers; Tawaki, for lending me the use of Agent Cameron; Kgarret, for sparking the idea in the first place; and Paddlebrains, for forcibly making me change to using Gdocs and thus making the original document-LJ transition a hundred million times less frustrating. -
Excellent. by
on 2009-10-19 20:47:00 UTC
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That last sentence at the end really does help. And, well, I've had my say on the rest of it before, so you know what I think. {= ) Good work.
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In pace requiescat. by
on 2009-10-18 01:40:00 UTC
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BTW, is a sawmill in glue really how they made the sound?
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Indeed it is by
on 2009-10-18 19:26:00 UTC
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Or at least that's how it sounded. I hunted down a clip on Youtube from the Voyager episode where they appeared, mostly so I could see how the things moved at normal size, and it sounded very much like a gummed-up buzzsaw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf_0WwfryNo
So a ten-foot-wide one, naturally, would sound similar--but a lot louder and a good bit deeper. -
I gave you the idea? by
on 2009-10-16 13:17:00 UTC
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Huh, I can't recall. However, it's early and I'm quite tired, so it might just be slipping my mind; I'll take your word for it. Good work nonetheless, Eru knows I have an unholy number of projects I need to finish.
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Re: I gave you the idea? by
on 2009-10-18 19:27:00 UTC
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I'm not surprised you don't remember--as I said in my Author's Spiel, this happened back in our very first Gtalk conversation, back at the end of May. I'm certainly glad I got it, though.
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Ohmygod that was awesome. by
on 2009-10-16 03:47:00 UTC
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Really, it was. And I loved the use of Calvin and Hobbes technology. Very clever.
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Nothing but the best for DoSAT. (nm) by
on 2009-10-18 19:28:00 UTC
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Good glods, Calvin and Hobbes devices? by
on 2009-10-16 00:12:00 UTC
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Whoah.
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Indeed. by
on 2009-10-18 19:29:00 UTC
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After all, Makes-Things fights with SCIENCE! And as everyone surely knows, Calvin and Hobbes' cardboard box technology has the most SCIENCE per pound of all technologies.
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SCIENCE! With a capital SCI! by
on 2009-10-18 21:14:00 UTC
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I'm a-going to read through it again now. ^_^;
~Neshomeh