That was my question exactly. I watched the Earthsea miniseries on SciFi with my husband, and neither of us had heard of or read any of her books. Now that I've seen the movie, I'm going out to get the books and read them. How many others are like me? For us, at least, the movie gave us awareness of her stories, and will result in a sale of books that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
Did it seem to anyone else that her entire Slate article was about how they changed the race of the characters? Maybe it's a bigger issue in the book, but personally it doesn't matter to me if Ged is brown, black, white, or purple...in fact, sometimes I prefer for an author to leave a character's physical description out of the novel entirely, unless it's critical to the plot. That way I can use my imagination.
Same story here. An invite came to my hotmail account less than five minutes after it was sent, and it wasn't filtered to junk mail or anything; showed right up in the inbox. On Friday.
When I was planning the music for our wedding last year, I set my "down the aisle" music to the theme from the Inner Light episode of ST:TNG. About a third of the guests caught the reference; the rest just wondered why we didn't use the traditional "Dum-dum-da-dum" (from Wagner's Lohengrin). I debated having our closing song be the Imperial March, but decided against it at the last minute;)
All very good points. I misinterpreted your comment to mean exactly that: the schools that made the list only did because they were small.
As far as coverage at UT goes, it was quite reliable walking outside from building to building. I spent most of my actual class time in the Engineering buildings of campus when I was there, and we had reliable wireless before the campus-wide network was up. I have no experience with the reliability in, say, the business buildings or the law school.
I completely agree that it would be interesting (and give the survey more credibility) to see the criteria upon which the different campuses were judged.
The University of Texas is number 3 on the list. Last time I checked, they had a population of over 50,000. Wireless was really solid there last year; could walk across campus and not lose signal once, even in the dorms.
And I thought I was original! I got my husband a 512 MB DIMM (and one for myself from him;), and we spent the evening watching Star Trek and playing Dark Alliance 2. He surprised me with a dozen white chocolate covered strawberries.
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That was my question exactly. I watched the Earthsea miniseries on SciFi with my husband, and neither of us had heard of or read any of her books. Now that I've seen the movie, I'm going out to get the books and read them. How many others are like me? For us, at least, the movie gave us awareness of her stories, and will result in a sale of books that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
Did it seem to anyone else that her entire Slate article was about how they changed the race of the characters? Maybe it's a bigger issue in the book, but personally it doesn't matter to me if Ged is brown, black, white, or purple...in fact, sometimes I prefer for an author to leave a character's physical description out of the novel entirely, unless it's critical to the plot. That way I can use my imagination.
Same story here. An invite came to my hotmail account less than five minutes after it was sent, and it wasn't filtered to junk mail or anything; showed right up in the inbox. On Friday.
When I was planning the music for our wedding last year, I set my "down the aisle" music to the theme from the Inner Light episode of ST:TNG. About a third of the guests caught the reference; the rest just wondered why we didn't use the traditional "Dum-dum-da-dum" (from Wagner's Lohengrin). I debated having our closing song be the Imperial March, but decided against it at the last minute ;)
All very good points. I misinterpreted your comment to mean exactly that: the schools that made the list only did because they were small.
As far as coverage at UT goes, it was quite reliable walking outside from building to building. I spent most of my actual class time in the Engineering buildings of campus when I was there, and we had reliable wireless before the campus-wide network was up. I have no experience with the reliability in, say, the business buildings or the law school.
I completely agree that it would be interesting (and give the survey more credibility) to see the criteria upon which the different campuses were judged.
The University of Texas is number 3 on the list. Last time I checked, they had a population of over 50,000. Wireless was really solid there last year; could walk across campus and not lose signal once, even in the dorms.
And I thought I was original! I got my husband a 512 MB DIMM (and one for myself from him ;), and we spent the evening watching Star Trek and playing Dark Alliance 2.
He surprised me with a dozen white chocolate covered strawberries.
I love my geek.