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Re: Lazy Writing?     Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:07 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
In article <iwmil.46082$OP2.13697@newsfe29.ams2>, ak@ak.ak (Nimrod) wrote: > > OK, if you're reading then so be it. It's "The Second Angel" by > Philip Kerr. Don't know it. ...

Lazy Writing?     Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:42:19 -0000
I've just started reading a book ( I won't mention it just in case the author reads this ng!) and I'm getting very frustrated with the very many (sometimes pages and pages and pages) of footnotes. They "explain" the background and history of parts of the story but to be honest, I could enjoy the book without a ...

Ansible 259 [long]     Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:15:22 +0000
ANSIBLE 259 FEBRUARY 2009 From DAVE LANGFORD, 94 London Road, Reading, Berks, RG1 5AU. Web news.ansible.co.uk. Fax 0705 080 1534. ISSN 0265-9816 (print) 1740-942X (e). Available for SAE, gruff, deedle or wobbly. [NET NOTE. See http://news.ansible.co.uk/a259.html for the nice HTML version. Mailing list subs ...

Re: "Unwaged" Con Memberships (was Re: Ansible 258 [long])     16 Jan 2009 23:01:14 -0500
Ben Yalow <ybmcu@panix.com> wrote: > "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> writes: >> Some of this is incompetence, some is deliberate overbooking with >> the expectation that some people with reservations won't show up. >> This allows hotels to sell more rooms than they have, since people >> with confirmed reser ...

Re: "Unwaged" Con Memberships (was Re: Ansible 258 [long])     16 Jan 2009 20:20:42 -0500
Ben Yalow <ybmcu@panix.com> wrote: > And credit card companies usually have similar terms for what > happens if the room is guaranteed with their cards (for example, > American Express requires first night free, others at original rate, > free transport, free phone call) ... Cue Seth's "Hostility House" (Discla ...

Re: "Unwaged" Con Memberships (was Re: Ansible 258 [long])     16 Jan 2009 20:04:12 -0500
Jette <bosslady@scotlandmail.com> wrote: > In the UK, hotel bars are open more or less 24 hours for "hotel > residents". Or at least until it's no longer worth paying a bar > tender's wages to service the few drinkers left, at which point the > bar itself may close and the late drinkers may be asked to move to > ...

Re: "Unwaged" Con Memberships (was Re: Ansible 258 [long])     Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:33 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
In article <m4vvm4lj5rqc4ee3ed6jgb6q3g1ttcqjhf@4ax.com>, tim@bellhouse.org.uk (Tim Illingworth) wrote: > >This used to happen at British cons, although quite illegally. > >The first Worldcon I went to, Seacon 79 in Brighton, I think there > >were eight of us in one room. Two of us were salary earners and got ...

Re: "Unwaged" Con Memberships (was Re: Ansible 258 [long])     Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:33 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
In article <gkop8e$gec$1@panix2.panix.com>, kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) wrote: > > Paul Dormer <pauldormer@cix.co.uk> wrote: > > For all I know, this goes on still, but I find I prefer to sleep > > alone these days. > > So would a lot of fans, but in the US, hotel room rates have been > increasing ...

Re: "Unwaged" Con Memberships (was Re: Ansible 258 [long])     Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:28 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
In article <gkmb9g$afr$1@panix3.panix.com>, kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) wrote: > > I've shared a room with over a dozen other fans. In that case most > people don't get beds, of course. Some get floor space. One person > sleeps in the closet -- two if it's a walk-in closet, or if they're > sufficie ...


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