LMB interview musings
So...
I'd just this week finally figured out how to set my Pixel earbuds, which had been sitting in their case for a year, to different volumes on each side. (I am near deaf in my right ear.) There is a well-hidden slider bar deep in the buds' control panel on my tablet or phone. The immediate motivation for this was to be able to move around while listening to podcasts, instead of yet more sitting which is hell on my back. (Spine issues, details on request. MRIs are fascinating.)
On impulse, I tried Googling "Lois McMaster Bujold interview", and a rather astonishing number of old and more recent interviews popped up. (Is "googling" still capitalized, now that it's a verb and not a proper noun?) You all can do the same, if you are curious.
A few hourswasted spent ego-cruising the results reinforces two observations I'd made before about my interviews; the same questions get a lot of by-now rather canned repeats on the answers, and my written interviews are way more coherent and focused than my audio ones. I have concluded I talk in first draft, more trying to get to my meanings by bracketing fire than direct hits. Spoken interviews put into text by the interviewer that I get to edit before publication are rather better. (Unedited auto-transcriptions get pretty hilarious.)
On the other hand, I've lately been made aware of how very many more readers are now primarily audio consumers, as technology continues to create the ambit of the possible for art.
Besides Google, there is a nice collection of my interview links on the Vorkosigan Wiki, but one has to find it.
https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Au...
A top-level Google (or google) does pretty well, if one chooses the right keywords.
...And there are also the hundreds of answered questions right here on my Goodreads "Ask the Author" feature, as if the foregoing weren't more than enough.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/1609...
Ta, L.
I'd just this week finally figured out how to set my Pixel earbuds, which had been sitting in their case for a year, to different volumes on each side. (I am near deaf in my right ear.) There is a well-hidden slider bar deep in the buds' control panel on my tablet or phone. The immediate motivation for this was to be able to move around while listening to podcasts, instead of yet more sitting which is hell on my back. (Spine issues, details on request. MRIs are fascinating.)
On impulse, I tried Googling "Lois McMaster Bujold interview", and a rather astonishing number of old and more recent interviews popped up. (Is "googling" still capitalized, now that it's a verb and not a proper noun?) You all can do the same, if you are curious.
A few hours
On the other hand, I've lately been made aware of how very many more readers are now primarily audio consumers, as technology continues to create the ambit of the possible for art.
Besides Google, there is a nice collection of my interview links on the Vorkosigan Wiki, but one has to find it.
https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Au...
A top-level Google (or google) does pretty well, if one chooses the right keywords.
...And there are also the hundreds of answered questions right here on my Goodreads "Ask the Author" feature, as if the foregoing weren't more than enough.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/1609...
Ta, L.
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Dec 10, 2024 04:20PM
I’m sorry you have to cope with various bodily malfunctions these days. As we get older, we could all do with taking a little rest inside Carlos Wu’s nanotech autodoc.
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Jonathan wrote: "I’m sorry you have to cope with various bodily malfunctions these days. As we get older, we could all do with taking a little rest inside Carlos Wu’s nanotech autodoc."True, but I'm rather continuously bemused by how new technologies keep arriving just in time to help out; the earbuds, and my hearing aids, for my hearing, ebooks on my big bright tablet for my eyes, delivery services for my general disinclination to shop. Medical tech has saved/preserved my life probably 3 times so far. Though it could do with some improvement viz spinal stenosis...
Ta, L.
I had a major operation this summer. I was feeling fine and not in need of medical attention, but they told me that my aorta had an aneurysm that might explode and kill me at any time; so I allowed them to rip me open and replace the wonky section of aorta. It seems to have worked.
I have had hearing problems for most of my life and finally broke down and saw a hearing specialist. I now have hearing aids. My left ear is a bit different than the right. Because of the hearing issues I learned to read lips and I don't like audio books or pod casts because I can't watch the person talk. I understand about back problems since mine hurts more as I get older. Yoga and walking help.
