{"id":50,"date":"2006-08-07T22:17:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T01:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/index.php\/2006\/08\/07\/preparing-to-tile-my-bathroom\/"},"modified":"2006-08-07T22:17:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T01:17:12","slug":"preparing-to-tile-my-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2006\/preparing-to-tile-my-bathroom","title":{"rendered":"Preparing to Tile My Bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image49\" alt=\"Joshua A.C. Newman signs and numbers the pre-ordered copies of Shock: Social Science Fiction\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/signingShocks.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those of you who requested so in the last post are getting your copies of Shock: mailed tomorrow morning before I leave for GenCon. Pictured above is me signing and numbering the pre-orders (and, given the look on my face, trying to figure out who I missed). A lot of people I expect to see at GenCon, so I&#8217;m bringing your pre-signed copies along. Don&#8217;t pester Brennan, though, if you&#8217;ve pre-ordered a copy; only I know which Michael the books go to, for instance. I mean, pester him if you want to buy another copy, but not for your signed and numbered pre-ordered copy.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I saw Vincent&#8217;s Mechaton books today. I <em>love<\/em> its tone. The instructions are all questions and answers. He&#8217;ll be selling the rules for $7 and a kit with a bunch of mecha for like $45 (I don&#8217;t remember exactly).<\/p>\n<p>I built a new mecha just for GenCon. It&#8217;s badass. It gets Yellows from its command flags. I&#8217;m pleased about that. You wanna see it, you better come play with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who requested so in the last post are getting your copies of Shock: mailed tomorrow morning before I leave for GenCon. Pictured above is me signing and numbering the pre-orders (and, given the look on my face, trying to figure out who I missed). A lot of people I expect to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2006\/preparing-to-tile-my-bathroom\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preparing to Tile My Bathroom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-publishing","category-shock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}