Random Picture of the Day
The Golden Gate from the water:
It was Thatcher’s Fault
“And I heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman. ”
Oh. THAT explains Boy George and Pete Burns. I always wondered…
Pizza!
Random picture of the day? It’s boat pizza…the best.
Random Picture of the Day
The view from business class. I could get used to this 🙂
So true
“Back when there were gatekeepers, at least there was a gate and you could go, ‘That’s the gate. And if I go through that gate, good things will happen,'” he said. “Now, there’s a million gates.”
—Andrew Clark cbc.ca/news/entertainment/comedy-business-booming-1.7248706
Personnaly, I’ve always been a fan of the gatekeepers. For all the bad they can do, they (their teams usually) put in a lot of work to improve the quality of the product and filter out the oh-so-humungous amount of dreck…
Just my 2 cents.
I used my first API!!!
Booksonix, the book management software Orca uses to manage their publications and workflow released an API (Application Programming Interface) a few weeks ago — so I started playing with it to see if I could automate some of my work.
After much playing with flask, jinja and json files I made a thing of beauty. Just plug in the print ISBN and it delivers me the cover for download and all the metadata, formatted and everything so I can just copy and paste it into the epub’s .opf file. That’s what an API does, let you get info out of a system without having to go through the regular interface so you can manipulate it the way you want. All the best websites have one: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter etc.
Do not shovel while covering from surgery!
For my dad…
True
I can’t even…
My library has this in their catalog. Oh my poor tax dollars…
Standard ebooks update
All good things…
A (final?) addition to the ongoing list of projects I have worked on for Standard ebooks and work has ground to a halt. I did exactly one book last year and that was Orlando, another collab between L and I—I did the mechanical stuff and she did the editorial.
Its not quite the end but I’ve been so busy doing books at Orca that I don’t have much free time (or energy) left to do volunteer work at Standard. My output had trickled to a stop, The Manual of Style had gone through multiple iterations without me keeping up on changes and I was becoming less and less confident in my ability to make good decisions. As a result I decided to step down from the editorial position at the beginning of the year. A screenshot as a final memento…
Hopefully I will eventually free up some time and mental space and add some more books—I have a few plays I really want to add.
As usual the full (and up-to-date) list can be seen over at astart.ca/publishing/ebooks/.
Here’s what I’ve added since the last update:
As always I really encourage you to go take a look and enjoy some of the books. And consider contributing if that tickles your fancy. It’s not really that hard once you learn the basics. I even wrote a beginners’ guide to help out: Standard Ebooks Hints and Tricks.