Write

I just mailed Chuck a book proposal that actually looks something like a book proposal, instead of the flimsy thing I sent him last week. So that's good. One thing I realized: this book will have to be written bloody quickly. "Perl & XML" isn't trying to synchronize with any real-world events, but this one wants to be born in time for a big conference in the fall. Cheeses. That'll mean about two chapters every three weeks, and that might even be pushing it.

And yet I continue, though this certainly blows away any other projects I thought I'd like to work on, at least through the summer. I have felt consistently psyched about this project for nearly two weeks now, which is something I couldn't have ever said about the other book. Here, I feel much closer to, and interested by, the topic, and the whole thing is going to be my show alone (modulo the command reference section which will owe much to previous authors).

But now I must mosey to the office and pick up the latest draft copy of P&X, which is in copyedit now.

Go Looneys

Mailbox overflows with the news that Looney Labs appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered" today, amusingly bemusing the reporter with their flagship card game Fluxx, during a story about this year's Toy Fair. By all accounts, Toy Fair is a giantly huge industry convention, and that the Looneys were singled out by a piece of wandering media says a lot. Excellent.