Heh, I'm curious enough to read your results, but not enough to add it all up myself. :P

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“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington

The part that always depresses me slightly is the realization that its center of gravity, so to speak, is somewhere around the beginning of 2003.

--G.
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Out of boredom today I d/l the KJV off of Project Gutenberg and trimmed off their
start and end blurbs. I then put it into Word and it comes out to 4.23 MB and 4,232,685 in straight ASCII. In HTML the size is around 4.4 MB.

I'm just trying to figure out how SoS with fewer words comes out to have a larger file size?

Michael

Michael C. Fortner
"Rule 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

Maybe we use bigger words.

--G.
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Plus the Bible is going to have all sorts of 'words' like "2", one for each verse in fact.

You think that's bad?

Imagine those of us who've been following this since Core 1.

Yeah.

There are freshthings in my local college gaming club who had not yet been born when it was released. One of them is in my Battletech campaign.

Can't say I've been following it quite that long, but I was still in my early larval stage as a freshthing myself when Core 4 was released (in something like 19 parts to rec.arts.anime(.stories?))...

Offsides

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

Funny that Gryph should work on re-doing this. I just spent the past 18 days (trying to read slowly to savor the work) re-reading all of SOS. Just the source material, not the annotations, though -- I'm waiting for the day that I can afford a dual-screen set-up so that I can have annotations right next to the source text.

UF/FI (especially SOS) gets more re-reads than the paperback fantasy/sci-fi novels that I own... wow.

Moving onto the WOTOR arc again,
-T.Z.
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"I believe that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.
Then find someone whose life gives them vodka and have a party."
--Ron White, stand-up comedian.

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I do the same thing for NXE.

Indeed, realizing that a smartphone or some similiar 'internet-in-my-hand' device would allow me to more easily read Eyrie Productions fic whenever and whereever I wanted (or whatever else I cared to) was the factor that let me to decide to start saving up for one.

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...I have two monitors and this never occurred to me.

>UF/FI (especially SOS) gets more re-reads than the paperback
>fantasy/sci-fi novels that I own... wow.

Very true! EPU publications also have the advantage of being somewhat cheaper.

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UF does have just the right combination of good writers and an enjoyable setting to generate a high reread count.

I think Core 4 was one of the first stories posted to r.a.a.creative at the time, as it was new and the entire rec.arts.anime.* hierarchy had been only recently created from the original newsgroup.

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[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

Yes, I was first Introduced to EPU and the Core UF, somewhere around News Years of 94 on my old Mac LC40. The addiction started then, when the text was provided to me on a 3.5 floppy.....

So yes Offsides, your date range is about right.

Thank you Gryph and all of the EPU Team (Past and Present) for a great ride so far...
The Phantom

"When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

I've been trying not to think too much about it. But, hey, there were days I thought I'd never be this old. All my planning pre-college fizzled out around 25 or so.

On the other hand, the nephew is 5 and that's about the right time to introduce him to super heroes other than Harry Potter. I'm trying to figure out how to introduce him to anime without freaking out his mom. My sister never met an animated character she didn't like...

t.
(At five I was into Godzilla. Hmm...)

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Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - HST

That naming scheme's going to be annoying to maintain (or else will get ugly) if you backfill stories into the middle of it, though.

Moderately, yeah. I'd have to go with alpha discriminators - for instance, if I added a third side story to the Great Summer Road Trip of 2405, between Interlude in the Golden City and Blue Moon Serenade, it'd end up being something like "s20a-s2e3a-theassassinationofjessejamesbythecowardrobertford.txt". That wouldn't be particularly pretty to a human reader, but apache would still sort it correctly, which was the whole point of the mass rename.

Given that the alternative was BASIC-style line numbers, it seemed the best compromise.

--G.
10 WOUNDED_ROSE
20 CHRISTMAS_ROSE
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Would a s20a-s2e3a.1 or s20a-s2e3a.2 work in that instance?