{"id":4423,"date":"2020-10-05T14:01:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T21:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T21:01:55","slug":"looking-for-cableton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4423","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Cableton"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m gathering miscellaneous items I’ve written down the years into a collection called Odd Lots<\/em>. A fair number of those are editorials or END\/Breakpoint pieces I wrote for the magazine across its ten years of publication. I no longer have the source files for a lot of my earlier material, though I do have most from about 1996 on. I have a complete run of PC Techniques<\/em> \/ Visual Developer<\/em> on a high shelf…<\/p>\n

…or at least I thought I did, until I was scanning the spines for August\/September 1993. It wasn’t there. And that issue included something I wrote called “Cableton,” which I had included in the tentative table of contents for Odd Lots<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I tore the house up, and opened a few previously unopened boxes from our move down here in 2015. No Cableton. It may still be around here somewhere. However, I looked in all the obvious hiding places, and quite a few very non-obvious hiding places, like under my big reading chair. Hit a wall, I did. So let me put out a request to my friends and readers who may actually have a copy of that issue: Could someone email me a scan of “Cableton”? Once I have a scan I can OCR it, like I’ve done with a lot of other items in those very old issues.<\/p>\n

What else will be in Odd Lots<\/em>? Some humor pieces, most of which were never published. A fair number of editorials and idea pieces from the magazine that I think may still be important. A little memoir, some of which I’ve published here on Contra. A few important Contra entries. It won’t be a huge book, and it won’t be expensive. If nobody has that issue, I’ll call it unfortunate and move on. But if you have it and a decent scanner, please email me a page image.<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p>\n

And as a postscript, if you’ve enjoyed some short item that I’ve written, let me know. I’m not always a good judge of what my best work is. Then again, nobody ever is. It’s a blind spot that may be baked into the human mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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