>>> On Jul 15, 6:51 pm, "Laurie G."
winternet.com> wrote:>>>> E. Liddell wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:50:32 -0700, spam wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 14, 10:09 am, "E. Liddell" wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:04:00 -0700, spam wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Jul 13, 8:06 am, "E. Liddell"
>>>>>>>> wrote:
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>> It always annoyed me that there was never a Muse of painting. Maybe the
>> ancient Greeks considered painting as "craft", not as "art"? *fooey*
>
> I think it's largely because the Muses are associated as a whole with
> *poetic* art--even Terp while generally considered the muse of dance
> also is associated with choral song. All of them have some association
> with verbal/musical expression in some way (although Urania is a bit
> of an outlier).
>
> And they would all ultimately be associated with Apollo, god of music
> and poetry.
Didn't Apollo create the Muses, or have them as his assistants, or
something? I am not remembering that part of my Greek mythology.
>
> The other fine arts, the more physical ones like sculpting, weaving,
> etc. would be associated with Athena. (And the more practical crafts
> with Hephaistos).
Athena certainly was portrayed as a mistress of weaving, and of course
Hephaestus was the God of Smithcraft. After learning more about
traditional hand-smithing, I can see why it would be considered magical,
and why the activity would get its very own deity in *many* mythos.
>
>>> I briefly found similar inspiration when I just wanted clean off my
>>> hard drive of old stuff and was opening things to remember what they
>>> were.
>> Oh yeah. "What does *this* file name possibly mean?"
>
> *lol* Exactly.
>
> Or three almost similar ones, like "Anthy-Mikage Thing," "Anthy Mikage
> Other Thing", "Anthy Mikage and the Kitchen Sink."
>
> (And no, none of those are romances involving Anthy and Mikage. They
> were just significant characters in the plot.)
If that kitchen sink is a significant character then it must be the one
in Nemuro Memorial Hall, and go along with the haunted basement and
sentient elevator.
>
>> Got it! Thanks. We'll see what happens when I have something to send
>> back to you. This new machine has Office 2007, but I'm sure we can find
>> the compatible file format if you don't have Vista yet.
>
> Actually, there is a compatibility upgrade for Windows 2003, so I can
> (theoretically) open Office 2007 files. Although if you can save it
> as .doc rather than .docx that'd probably still be preferable.
>
A friend told me that a big thing about the Office 2007 file formats is
that they'd moved to XML. I figured that would make them
human-readable. But I tested that today. If you open up a .docx in
Notepad, say, you do see an XML indication near the top, but it's all
still encoded. Doesn't look like Unicode either, so who knows?
I've been able to successfully edit your fic file with my commentary,
and I don't believe its altered the format since it was in the proper
format to start with. Of course the true test will come when I send it
back to you and we'll see if you can open it.
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>>>>> (I'm currently in the middle of experimenting with the current season's
>>>>> new anime offerings. Finally, another season of Slayers!)
>>> Yes! I am excited about that. Of course, the old question rears its
>>> head: will Amelia and Naga ever appear on screen at the same time? :)
>> I think these episodes have arrived at our house
>
> Wait, is the new Slayers series actually OUT? *runs to look*
>
Probably not. My memory was probably just mixing up looking at previews
with thinking that we'd actually received disks. My bad.
>> but we've been watching through "Kamichu" (a very cute story)
>
> I *love* Kamichu, and I discovered it immediately after declaring to
> myself, "I am NEVER, EVER watching ANOTHER anime about a junior high
> school girl with special powers who can't tell the boy she likes she
> likes him, blah blah blah."
>
> But it's nicely original (it's made by the R.O.D people dontchaknow),
> and perhaps I prefer the moe-moe/seinen style to shoujo (though
> obviously, I love good shoujo--*nods at Utena*).
I'll warn you about "Mokke" then. It seemed to use many of the same
themes as "Kamichu". But I ended up really disliking it because I
couldn't stand the characters. I found them either utter idiots or
really irritating--they had the kind of traits that I find irritating in
people in real life. But I became fond of all the characters in "Kamichu".
>> I haven't gotten the game yet, although now that I'm passing
through my upgrade travails,
>> it may be time.
>
> There are a few package deals out now--I think there's a couple
> different deluxe versions that will give you the base game plus a few
> expansion packs.
Yes, I've seen these in the stores.
> And all of this is more than you probably wanted to know, but there we
> are.
Nah, this is exactly the kind of stuff I want to know before buying. I
thought it'd be a simple matter of finding time to pick up the games and
install. But I think I'll do some reading at the forums first, now, and
see where the patch situation is at.
Laurie
