Apologies all, I may have got my timezones a bit mixed. Just checked on Amazon and The Vintage Egg is already free. I thought it wouldn’t go free until later this evening. 😦
I’ve listed the urls of the amazon websites I know:
If you’re trying to find the Egg from somewhere else, please type ‘The Vintage Egg acflory’ in your amazon search box. That should take you to the Egg.
Sorry this is a bit late. Please grab a copy before the Egg stops being free on March 6th. lol I feel like asking whether you want it hard boiled or fried. 😉
cheers
Meeks
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March 8th, 2021 at 3:39 am
This was a fun collection, Andrea. Best of luck with the sale!
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March 8th, 2021 at 8:31 am
Thanks, Diana. I had no expectations so I’m thrilled by the extra reviews for the Egg too. 😀
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March 5th, 2021 at 8:14 am
I purchased and read the vintage egg several months ago and I’m sorry I realize I never reviewed it. I have just taken care of that on Amazon and hope it shows up soon. Fantastic collection of short stories!!
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March 7th, 2021 at 2:16 pm
Thank you, thank you! I just found it. I hoped for one, maybe two extra reviews. I’m stunned by how many the Egg and the others have received. -huge hugs-
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March 8th, 2021 at 8:46 am
Yay! Well deserved. 💙
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March 8th, 2021 at 10:31 am
-hugs-
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March 5th, 2021 at 2:48 am
💙
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March 4th, 2021 at 7:06 am
There’s a certain cabal of eccentrics who want the entire world to adopt a single time zone, which I, being eccentric myself, think is a spectacularly brilliant idea. 😀 … and UTC is slooooowly catching on.
Having 24 time zones worked perfectly well in the days before instantaneous global communication was commonplace, but now, when we’re poised to actually have humans set foot on another planet for colonisation purposes, it would make sense to have ‘Earth-Time’, Moon-Time’, Mars-Time’, etc … couldn’t have them all the same time yet, humans being the stubborn species they are, but if we don’t do ourselves in first, I can see a Startrek-ian Galactic Time, encompassing all habitats, planetary and off-world. 🙂
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March 4th, 2021 at 7:19 am
Although it would be convenient in many ways, it would be a problem, too. Saying it’s 7am when the sun has just set can be confusing 🤣
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March 4th, 2021 at 8:07 am
There’s the thing though, you wouldn’t have ‘am’s’ and ‘pm’s’. The 12/24-hour clock would cease to exist. and you’d get used to calling the time formerly known as 7am, as 57.32. (I just made that number up, I have no idea how a bunch of humans would manage to reach consensus on what numbers to use, I do know that it would take a very long time and involve many committees) 😀
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March 4th, 2021 at 8:31 am
I see 🤓
True, it will need a lot of time and effort.
I’ve read some time ago, that some more time ago an effort of creating an internet time was made, for internet events and communication. Using your example, one would say that the offer starts at 57.32 and end at 62.15, and this would be the same for anyone around the globe.
It’s long since I’ve read this, so it might have been from an unreliable source, but if not, I guess, it didn’t work even for internet events. It will be even more difficult for humanity to adopt this in their daily lives.
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March 4th, 2021 at 9:10 am
I wish they’d try something like in mmos. Instead of having all different real time clocks, we could just have a game clock, and all events would be on a kind of countdown. e.g. 2 hours from this point in game time, 1.5 hours from now, 45 mins from now etc etc. Basically once you logged in, you could look at the game clock and work out how far away the even was in simply hours.
-sigh- well that’s how this timezone challenged gamer would like to see it done. 🙂
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March 5th, 2021 at 10:36 am
Apparently games are more practical than humans… 🤔
So, gamers aren’t humans? 😱
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March 7th, 2021 at 2:14 pm
Weeeeell…some of us are. Not too sure about the others. 😉
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March 10th, 2021 at 7:21 am
🤣🤣
💖😘💖
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March 4th, 2021 at 9:05 am
lmao and rofl! ‘…it would take a very long time and involve many committees’. I think we’re safe for the next two or three centuries then. 😀
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March 5th, 2021 at 10:41 am
Oh, thank goodness! 🤣
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March 7th, 2021 at 2:12 pm
-hugs-
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March 4th, 2021 at 9:02 am
lmao – yes, that was my reaction too. 😀
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March 4th, 2021 at 8:59 am
-grin- as a scifi fan myself, I /love/ that idea, just not sure I’d love the reality. I have trouble enough with daylight saving time. Plus how would we cope with the day/night cycle? Would the northern hemisphere get midnight to midday as 01 to 12 while we southerners would get 13 to 24? I guess we’d get used to it, but I’m sure it would cause a wee bit of resentment. 😉
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March 4th, 2021 at 10:01 am
One can only hope that DST would be banished to the depths where it belongs! 😀
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March 4th, 2021 at 3:09 pm
Amen to that. I hate it. Must have been thought up by some sadist who just wanted us to work harder. 😦
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March 6th, 2021 at 2:54 pm
Pretty much … a bunch of wealthy douche-canoes decided that the hoi polloi, on whose backs their douche-canoeing was built, wasted too much time in the mornings, especially in the summer doing horrific things like sleeping in, and not working hard enough … the way most things are brought into being in our society, eh?
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March 7th, 2021 at 2:00 pm
-grin- ‘douche-canoes’ really made me smile. Thanks, Widds and most definitely YES!
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March 3rd, 2021 at 5:43 pm
Thanks for the links! The Egg is now in my reading device.
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March 3rd, 2021 at 10:35 pm
Yay! I’ve had a good day writing but this is sending me to bed with a smile on my dial. 😀 Night, Audrey. 🙂
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March 4th, 2021 at 7:07 am
Aren’t ‘good writing days’ wonderful! 😀
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March 4th, 2021 at 9:01 am
Oh gods yes. I started writing at about 7:30 am and looked up to see that it was 3pm in the afternoon. Nothing but coffee and a few nuts to keep me going but I felt great. 😀
How’s your mad gallop going? Still tearing up the wordcounts?
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March 4th, 2021 at 10:03 am
Yep … just topped out at 75,000-ish, and I reckon the story’s about halfway done … but truly, I have no idea – that’s the great thing about being a ‘pantser’! 😀
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March 4th, 2021 at 3:08 pm
High Five, my friend! 75K is fantastic, especially given how quickly you’ve reached that point. I’m kind of envious. 🙂
I start out as a pantster and then become a weird kind of hybrid, possibly because after the first book, things get set in concrete so you have to work your way around a million and one constraints. I totally understand the joy and rush of those ideas falling into place though. More power to your pen, um, keyboard. lol
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