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I forgot to post this separately (DUH!) as soon as I got home, but on Wednesday last week I did a video interview with Betsy Mitchell, my editor. It involved a teeny-tiny camera on a tripod…about pack-of-playing-cards size on a tripod that could’ve held a Big Fat Important Camera. In the process of setting up for it, I learned about the Book Cabinet (no, I’m not telling you. Not now, anyway.)
The video went up Sunday evening, but I was flat out from the end of trip and didn’t find it until today…should’ve posted the link before now, though.
[Edited to fix link]
Comment by Keenan — October 20, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
I couldn’t get the link above to work, it required logging in. I did find an article entry on the site with this URL:
http://www.suvudu.com/2009/10/what-i-learned-this-week-the-care-and-feeding-of-authors.html
I only hope it is the same thing you were trying to show us.
Comment by elizabeth — October 20, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
I’m sorry the link didn’t work for you. I copied and pasted the URL into the link-former-function. Hmmm. I’ll copy and paste your version (which I also tested, and did work), then edit the post.
Comment by elizabeth — October 20, 2009 @ 2:40 pm
And now it’s fixed, thanks to you. I must have misaligned something…sorry.
Comment by Keenan — October 20, 2009 @ 3:14 pm
meh… Computers… Whatcha gonna do?
As I always say, Technology is great until you have to rely on it.
Comment by Kathleen — October 20, 2009 @ 3:22 pm
Computers are like men — can’t live with them and can’t live without them…..
Comment by Jo Thomas — October 21, 2009 @ 9:20 am
Kathleen: I thought that was “Can’t live with ‘em, can’t shoot ‘em”… I clearly misunderstood
ELizabeth: Interesting interview and love the product placement
Comment by Kathleen — October 21, 2009 @ 9:31 am
@Jo Your version works for me too….
@Elizabeth Cool horse info. I had no idea and were surprised that difference cultures have different views on atributes based on horse color (now why that a suprise considering they do the same things with humans is another question for another day)
Comment by elizabeth — October 21, 2009 @ 12:03 pm
I first learned about horse color prejudices as a child, partly from hearing adults talk and partly from reading horse books…then from watching color fashions sweep through American horse shows. Breed biases are as common as color biases, and so are certain bits of conformation (especially head shape, neck length, etc.) Horses of unusual color are either prized or despised…one of the sadder breeders of western-breed horses is the person with a colt that has too much white to register as a Quarter Horse and too little to register as a Paint.
QH breeders don’t want “too much” white on their horses and Paint breeders don’t want solids. The breeds are out of the same genetic stock, separated only by color, and that only in the 20th c., but each group fiercely defends its color-honor. The problem for QH breeders was worsened in the ’60s and ’70s by a fashion in the show ring for “more chrome”–more white markings, such as four white stockings and blaze. But the line between “nice chrome” and “too much white” is a thin one…when measured on the horse’s body.
Comment by Jo Thomas — October 21, 2009 @ 3:51 pm
And genetically indesitinguishable, just about. I remember having a squint at colour genetics in horses when a friewnd of mine was working out what colour her hunter foal would be. Though that was fairly easy – dam was a light bay and the father was a dark bay so guess what the odds were on
In general, British horsy people are anti-”paint”. Skewbald and piebalds as we tend to call them are often disparaged as “gypsy” horses or bred, even if they have good pedigrees. The people who like lots of white tend to be the ones who prize an “individual” look – and not in the ring or in the hunt or on the track.
THere’s some rhyme(s) about how many white feet are good but it changes from county to county, nevermind country to country!
Comment by Chuck — October 22, 2009 @ 8:58 pm
I seem to remember something from one of Temple Grandin’s books about piebald horses and difficult personality traits, which may also factor into the solid color vs. painted debate.