SPECIAL EDITION! (a sad story about a Macintosh)

[sab]

So Simple Text wouldn't open my html file to edit. "Too big," said Simple Text. A half dozen downloads for Mac text editors off download.com.com froze the computer on their way down.

Word, being word, made up its own kung fu HTML and spat out a gangrenous rhino of a file full of crazy characters and ugliness.

So I did what I do: I made runpunkrun help me. She valiantly stripped the file of all its nuisance HTML and sent it back, where I could, ostensibly edit it as a .txt file in Word and then manually make it a .html later.

Word had none of it. "Have some headers!" it shouted, muddying Punk's lovely p tags and css with its nonsense. "Have some forced line breaks!"

I cried and hid a little, and once more, Punk M. came to the rescue.

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Enclosed please find DVD bonus track commentary:

A new device is being tested [Farscape, John/Scorpius, J/A, R, 90k with commentary]

Hand coded and elegantly streamlined by Punk M. Whom I suspect you will find had more than a little to do with making the story itself what it is today.

Let me know how this all works out for you. This was completed by request of sorlklewis and your feedback keeps this company going.

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Then, if you're very nice, and if you know a good no-frills text editor for the Macintosh, I might even do another.

ALL HAIL PUNK.

Comments

[unsated.livejournal.com]

http://www.barebones.com/products/bblite/index.shtml

Download BBEdit Lite, even though it has been discontinued, you can still download it there... and probably other places.

It is like TextEdit if it was hit by gamma radiation and embued with superapplication powers.

Or soemthing.

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[vickita.livejournal.com]

In complete agreement, here. BBEdit is the way to go. I use the full version in combination with Dreamweaver -- they talk to each other like a dream, and BBEdit has a grep function that makes it indispensable for me.

Haven't used BBEdit Lite in years so I don't remember what the feature set is on it, but full-blown BBEdit even has ftp support built into it, and a bunch of other nifty things.

*And* it won't put anything into your file that you don't want to be there, *and* it's just a gorgeous, elegant editor for plain text files of any kind. Yay, BBEdit!

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[rliz.livejournal.com]

Just thirding the rec for BBEdit, whether you use OS 9 or OS X.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Interesting. You meant less of it as hallucinations than I thought.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

So, so nice. Just mmmm. The ins and outs, of the writing and the planning and the story itself, opening up Crichton, peeling him like a grapefruit, turning him inside out and spitting out the seeds, showing us where he was, what he wanted, the anger and resentment and longing for things out of his reach. Thank so much for doing this! Fantastic commentary on one of my favorite stories!

[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

Thaaaaaank you, Sab! That was fabulous to see how everything grew and changed and became what it is. Thank you! You've made my day with that. *g*

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

Wah. I wish I knew Farscape so I could get more out of this, but I really enjoyed seeing how your writing process works. Clueless as I was. :)

[cofax7]

Huh. I was wrong. I really did think John went batshit crazy about the point where they met up with the Charrids, and that much of the rest was hallucinations. Because it was all so easy after that, but even crazy John's mind wouldn't believe Aeryn would stay with him now.

Fabulous commentary, m'dear.

Re: the Fitzgerald thing. I believe John is named after Jack. Yah? And Jack would NEVER have Fitzgerald as a middle name cause Jack was born in, oh, 1935 or so? The Fitzes and the Kennedys weren't household names yet. So.

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[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

Actually -- and I can't remember if this is actually canon or not, but -- isn't John's middle name Robert? I swear it was John Robert Crichton, Jr., but, you know, I could be completely wrong.

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[kernezelda]

Don't think they ever confirm it in canon, but that's what it says on Henson site and Sci-Fi.

[kernezelda]

Brilliant. The story punched me in the gut when I read it, and the ache didn't go away for days. Reading the commentary brings it all back, how twisted a place it is inside John's head.

Thank you.

Regarding IASA, it was still IASA in Terra Firma, but I think Kansas had Jack in NASA, because I remember payihg attention to that distinction. And while John's middle name is meant to be Robert, he did attend JFK High before MIT.