(I thought that title would grab your attention! Sadly, it's not original - it's mentioned in a story on this site. All will become clear if you read further!)
I've finally taken a bit of time to do something with a project I started a while back.
The project was inspired by tales told of Yak Breeding (sorry, Wuthering Dormice), and the aim was to skim through the chapters and produce one line summaries of the main event(s) of each. Easier said than done, and I initially gave up after the first 40.
I've now been back through them, edited the summaries, and extended it up to 50, as well as providing placeholders for the remaining 850+. Additionally, I've added the publication dates and the occasional witty quote.
However, as it could potentially take me forever to read through the entire series again, I've uploaded the spreadsheet to Google Docs and (hopefully) made it editable by anyone with a Google account (i.e. you've logged into GMail, Picasa, Blogspot, YouTube etc.)
To make life a little easier, I've split it into 10 tabs, each dealing with 100 chapters. So feel free to dip in wherever/whenever you want and add your own.
To see what I've done (and hopefully add some more of your own), clicking on this text should take you there. It should also allow you to download a copy in the format of your choice, should you wish to work on it offline.
Oh yes, you'll also discover the significance of the title of this post (assuming you can't remember the first few chapters of EAFOAB!)
And on the subject of spreadsheets, remember that Christmas tune quiz I posted back in December?
You can find it and the answers at http://bnorwood.fastmail.fm/quiz/
The quiz itself is xmas3q, and the answers xmas3a. The answers themselves are formatted as white text, to make it easier to look at particular answers without revealing the whole lot at once (unless you reformat them in black!). xmas2q is an older version, and quizzes a selection of genuine pub quiz questions/answers (before I grew bored with the 18 mile round trip and the minuscule chance of winning anything more than £10)
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Yak Breeding for Beginners: in Part 5
"as it could potentially take me forever to read through the entire series again"
But what a great way to spend the rest of your days! Actually, I'm doing it. I'm up to "Part 40! (I knew I shoulda done the blog instead)" and loving it. I do hope to live long enough, however, to catch up to Angharad's output of daily episodes (somewhere around 1200 or so by that time, I expect).
Kris
Kris
{I leave a trail of Kudos as I browse the site. Be careful where you step!}
You're in a perfect position...
Once you reach 50, scribble down a brief note on what's happened in each chapter, then you can add it to the spreadsheet :)
Incidentally, part 1 is now up to 99 votes, so is just one reader/voter away from breaking the 100 barrier :)
--Ben
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
The only problem
with this, is it will show up all the mistakes I've made in the continuity eg the bike went from £4k to 7k - okay, put that down to inflation.
I'm very touched that anyone should be that interested in my scribblings, and humbled that some see reading Bike from start to current end point as a rite of passage, the equivalent of cycling up the Amazon - actually the latter would be far safer and more interesting.
Thank you, Ben.
Angharad
Angharad
Bike's value
Could be inflation, could be that another member of the Cameron clan runs Cathy's insurance company (tee hee hee), or it could be a combination of both. AFter all, insurance is another branch of the Financial Services industry, and it wouldn't surprise me if Miles Cameron (the accountant briefly mentioned in Sue Brown's "Changes") is another relative of the clan...
--Ben
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Thanks, Angharad
Well, let's see. the bike's a Scott, which is a US company, so the price was probably originally in US$. Maybe the GB£ fell in value vs. the dollar, resulting in the increase?
"the equivalent of cycling up the Amazon"
Oh. no! Why did you have to put that idea in my head!
Must not think of cycling up Amazon...
Must not think of cycling up Amazon...
Must not think of cycling up Amazon...
Hmmm... Bike wheel driving paddle wheel on canoe?
(Stop that this instant!)
Now see what you've done!?
Kris
Kris
{I leave a trail of Kudos as I browse the site. Be careful where you step!}
The short version
Sounds like the beings of a Reader's Digest version. I haven't read any of Bike yet, I'm so behind in my other reading, maybe this will do.
I am a grain of sand on a near beach; a nova in the sky, distant and long.
In my footprints wash the sea; from my hands flow our universe.
Fact and fiction sing a legendary song.
Trickster/Creator are its divine verse.
--Old Man CoyotePuma
I am a grain of sand on a near beach; a nova in the sky, distant and long.
In my footprints wash the sea; from my hands flow our universe.
Fact and fiction sing a legendary song.
Trickster/Creator are its divine verse.
--Old Man CoyotePuma