Re: Readathons and broken links -- Christopher Ford, Amateur Paranormalist

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Date Posted: 01:48:54 04/20/02 Sat
Author: ~Steve-o
Subject: Re: Readathons and broken links
In reply to: ApolloXVIII 's message, "Readathons and broken links" on 19:42:17 04/19/02 Fri

>I've been catching up on a little back reading over
>the last few days. 14 episodes of The Dead of Night,
>including epilogue. 14 episode of The Anger of Angels,
>including epilogue. (Hey, I'm seeing a pattern here.)

That's right. Every Ford story has 13 episodes and an epilogue.

>15 episodes of A Chance of a Ghost, including prologue
>and epilogue. (Ah. No I'm not.)

The prologues in the trilogy are new, and I only did them for the trilogy just so I didn't have to waste time in the stories introducing Hammer and Nale. In fact, the third one won't even have a prologue.

>12 episodes of The Necromancer Found to date, including
>prologue.

There'll be 15, by your calculation. 13 "official" chapters, a prologue, and an epilogue.

>That makes 55 episodes. In 72 hours. And that's after
>damn near breaking my arm hauling the print-outs back
>home from the office.

Good God man, don't you know that inanity can be toxic at those levels???

But for anyone else considering attempting this, and because several people have asked, I will be converting the series over to PDF files for handy-dandy printing.

>No wonder I feel like I'm buzzed on Carffee.

Well, according to the server logs as of the beginning of "Necromancer," you're the fourth person to attempt that Herculean feat. And, given the fact that the other three haven't made themselves known in the forum or by Email, I'd welcome your comments.

>Of course, by my calculation I also have 19 episodes
>of TFOHG to catch up on. With JIM's epic
>tale-generating capacity, that should be an
>interesting ride too.

I'm waiting until next week, then I'm going to re-read TGC and the last TFoHG stories in preperation for the Crossing Over bit advertised on the UH main page.

>(Now you guys didn't REALLY think that you'd gotten
>rid of me, did you?)

That sounds like a challenge to me. If that's a challenge, I can always bring back the Enmascarado.

>However that's not the reason I'm here. (Nor is it to
>offer insightful analysis, at least not until after
>the nerves steady and the web-fic induced tremmors
>stop.)

Those aren't just tremors, that's Parkinsons. I told you this stuff is toxic.

>Apologies if this has been brought up before (though I did
>a skim of the existing Forum headers and didn't see
>anything referring to it), but did you know that all of
>the links in the "Extra Nonsense" section FAQ, Bios,
>Links, etc) land on nasty Mr. 404?

Indeed I was, and this leads me to consider following JIM's lead about archiving the "News" section. Last week, I spent a few hours diligently trying to avoid working on the "Ford Facts" section (two sections, Fun Ford Facts which is various nonsense about how many times the word "dingleberry" has been used, and Ford's Guide to San Francisco, an encyclopedia of sorts to serve as a guide to the people and sites who live in Ford's universe and will replace the Bios section). Anyhoo, what I ended up doing instead of working on that, was redoing the Ford title graphic, as well as re-writing the CSS to address a few display issues. I haven't gotten around to updating the Extras files yet.

However, since you've got the persistance and, quite frankly, I'm mildly afraid of anyone who can take that much Ford in one sitting, I've put the old versions up on the site. The links work now, but the layouts might be a bit screwy.

>The page that they link to DOES in turn provide a link to
>your Ted Kennedy game

Yes, the game was written up in a recent issue of "Gear" magazine (Gear, it's about stuff!), and many many people had a hard time spelling "Kennedy" correctly, so I put that there.

>but I'm figuring that that's not a bio unless it's some
>kind of secret message that Senator Ted will be playing
>Ford in an upcoming movie. (Hmmm, though now that I think
>of it...)

We've actually been talking to Newt Gingrich's agent.

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Replies:

Re: Readathons and broken links -- ApolloXVIII, 03:10:00 04/21/02 Sun
- Scary coincidences -- ApolloXVIII, 22:38:43 04/21/02 Sun
  - Re: Scary coincidences -- ~Steve-o, 02:45:29 04/22/02 Mon