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...Surprising? Easy? Oh, well, if it was easy, it would have been surprising. No, it was awful. I procrastinated quite a bit. I thought - and this is just naiveté and ignorance - but I assumed it would be easier than it was. The beginning was easy because I just sort of took my time and was dicking around. And then as the deadlines started looming and a year turned into five months, I started getting a little panicky. So I was like, "Can I get an extension on this?" And the publishers were like, "Yeah, sure," and reset the doomsday...
...chapters in your book skewers the literary-party scene. Have you been to any lately? No, the only thing I've ever been to - and it's not quite the same thing - is years ago, I went to a sort of charity event for the New Yorker at a supper club in Chelsea or something. There were some actresses, authors, various people. If you were to make a lazy stereotype of a New Yorker reader, it was that kind of crowd...
...This past weekend was supposed to have been a bloody standoff between horror films - sort of a Freddy vs. Jason or Alien vs. Predator slamdown - for whatever spending money young people had left at the end of the summer. Masked killer Michael Myers in Halloween 2 (a sequel to a remake of a series that launched more than 30 years ago) would battle the more impersonal, implacable Death in FD4, known as The Final Destination. The latter was given a slight edge by industry analysts because it was playing on 1,600 screens in 3-D, with a $3 surcharge...
...provides hardware manufacturing at a reduced cost, while its American partner provides the sales smarts and high-tech expertise. "It's a product of Sino-U.S. cooperation," says Liang. "[Coda] did market research and provided funding, and we were in charge of the power system." It's the sort of globalized relationship that has worked for countless products before - and now Coda and Lishen will try to make it work for the car of the future. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...This sort of constant improvement pays off: two-thirds of all searches in the U.S. are now conducted through Google - about 7 billion a month. Yahoo! has less than 20% of the market, and Microsoft less than 10%. Despite Microsoft's claims, most people think Google works pretty well...