Wednesday, 13 March 2013

The DP blog Hot off the Press


A pencil on wheels, driven by mysterious forces. Illustration taken from the book.



So, today sees my very first contribution to DP's very own blog Hot off the Press. If you are interested, you'll find the blog post here.

It differs a little from what I wrote, though, because I was politely asked if it was OK to remove most of a sentence religious people could be offended by. The culprit was at the bottom of the post reading:

Personally, in light of all the horrible things men have done to other men in the name of God, give me Planchette and Spiritualism any time, but don’t tell me about God.
However, each to their own, and all of the phenomena discussed in the book above have one common denominator:
they have no proof.

Well, experience shows that this is the price you have to pay if you write for an official site. However, as this is my blog and I'm not representing anybody else, I felt free to repost it here. I certainly have no intention of offending anybody by stating facts, but I know there are always some who take offence. If you belong to those, ten tough.



Friday, 22 February 2013

Used Books

This is some sort of follow-up of my previous blog post which brought up memories of books I read when I was a teenager. There were a few books which were immensely popular amongst us siblings (they were all library books).

Monday, 18 February 2013

Children's Books and Literature in General





I often feel that I've some catching up to do on literature. Since I am a proofreader at Distributed Proofreaders most of the books I read are naturally very old. If I don't read, I listen to audio files from Libri Vox - however, I sometimes revert to the written version if I don't understand the accent of a particular reader, or don't like the voice, or both. (I think the Australian accent is particularly hard to understand, it's unlike any other English accent I'm more or less familiar with - and I'm not too fond of the Austrian accent, either).


Monday, 4 February 2013

Super Bowl 2013

When I entered the kitchen this morning, I found my son at breakfast, his ipad next to his toast.

Son: The Baltimore Ravens won the super bowl.

Friday, 23 November 2012

Some more blog stats

On checking my stats today, I saw that my blog had had 29 page views within the past few hours.
Dear me, I thought, what might have caused that?

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

PG and LV


Größere Kartenansicht

Those among you who read my blog occasionally will know that I'm a proofreader over at Distributed Proofreaders for Project Gutenberg. I've occasionally mentioned, too, that I download and listen to audio files from LibriVox.