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A book you own that no one on your friends list does:

I probably have a few of these. I know at least one person on my list has the book I edited, because she wrote the introduction. But there should be enough others on my Inklings bookshelf alone: Sprookjes, a Dutch translation of Tolkien's short fiction. Old King Coel, an epic poem by an Oxford cleric named Adam Fox. George Allen and Unwin: A Remembrancer by Rayner Unwin, Tolkien's publisher. The Oxford University Calendar for 1941. The script to Orson Scott Card's readers' theatre version of The Lord of the Rings.

A CD you own that no one on your friends list does:

I probably have a few of these too. If anybody else has the complete symphonies of Joseph Kraus, or Dancing with Henry (Cowell), or Hubert Foss and His Friends, or The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China by LaMonte Young, I'd surely like to know about it.

A DVD/VHS tape you own that no one on your friends list does:

Now this is tougher. We don't have a lot of videos, and I doubt that the nearly complete collections of Buffy, Monty Python, The Prisoner, or Jane Austen films on DVD would be unique or even unusual in this crowd. Hmm, anyone else have the video of the 20th anniversary Steeleye Span concert?

A place you've been that no one on your friends list has been:

Ursula K. Le Guin's basement.

If you want an ordinarily mapable place: Elfin Cove, Alaska (population 50). Not even B. has been there; she stayed on the ship.

Date: 2004-10-15 04:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smofbabe.livejournal.com
Well darn, why didn't I think to mention my book: Read Me First: A Style Guide for the Computer Industry -- I bet that's a bestseller on everyone's shelf :-> (Actually, I know that at least Jean Weber has a copy.)

Date: 2004-10-15 06:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com
Have you tried Amazoning your name? A lot of really interesting things come up.

But not this. Your name doesn't seem to be on the second edition. A shame: I like the idea of a book discussing indexing that actually talks about how to index, and not just how to arrange the index.

Date: 2004-10-15 04:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smofbabe.livejournal.com
Have you tried Amazoning your name? A lot of really interesting things come up.

Never tried this before. I knew about the credit in Earth but not about the email screenshot!

Your name doesn't seem to be on the second edition.

That's weird, as the credits are the same for both. I was the project lead for the book.

Date: 2004-10-15 05:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com
I'm not going back into Amazon's clumsy "Look Inside" feature unless I have to, but what I recall seeing is 1) no personal names on the t.p.; 2) a list of credits on the t.p. verso that did not include you.

Maybe I missed something.

Date: 2004-10-15 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smofbabe.livejournal.com
No, you didn't miss anything. The book is based on Sun's internal style guide so the list of credits was too long to put on title page. It's in the Preface.

Date: 2004-10-15 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com
Aha! A moment of Amazon searching, and I now know that "smofbabe"'s RL trunme is ... SUN TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS!

Bwa ha ha ha haaaaaaah!

Date: 2004-10-15 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smofbabe.livejournal.com
I now know that "smofbabe"'s RL trunme is ... SUN TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS!

Darn, my secret is out...
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