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A: Welcome back.
B: It’s been a little while I know, again, but …
A: Busy… busy… busy.
B: Absolutely.
A: So, what’s new?
B: Well, what’s new is that my book is finally, nearly, here.
A: Excellent - and it’s called ….
B: ‘Tales from the Front’.
A: ‘Tales from the Front’? An interesting title.
B: Well it’s a combination of 2 [...]
A: Welcome back
B: It’s been a little while I know but …
A: Busy… busy… busy
B: Absolutely. But I need to talk about Euro Disney?
A: Do you mean Disneyland, Paris ?
B: Afraid not. It’s part of the ‘what are the glorious mistakes you can learn from’ series.
A: Pretty big [...]
A: I’ve been reading about probability this week.
B:Are you sure?
A: Yes. There’s a very interesting problem concerning 2 goats and a car.
B: Shoot.
A: OK. Stay with me for this – it’s a bit tricky.
B: OK.
A: On a tv show contestants can win either a goat or a car.
B: Why?
A: Because……. I don’t know – perhaps [...]
“Prison World magazine, created to form and serve a community of incarcerated readers, has doubled in page size, from 16 to 32, and estimates a readership of 250,000, according to folio.com. The magazine is shipped to more than 3,000 subscribers in the general public, somewhat by default.”
B: Imagine that.
A: Imagine what?
B: A captive audience.
B: This [...]
A: So you’re looking to diversify your talents after spending too long in the IT side of the market?
B: As I see it “The bottom line is I got it wrong by being overexposed to subprime and I suffered as a result of an unprecedented liquidity squeeze and deterioration in that [...]
A: I’ve just heard a song called “There Are More Questions Than Answers”. Can this be right?
B: How can it not be?
A: If there is more than one answer to a single question it could be correct. Do you think?
B: Good point. Now let me ask you about questions.
A: About questions?
B: Correct. I’ve suddenly had [...]
A: So changes afoot I gather?
B: Yes. Big website changes.
A: And we’re to be moved to an inside page I take it.
B: Yes. More professional to have the reader see what they can buy on page one.
A: What would that be?
B: That would be me.
A: Interesting.
B: Think of it as an advert, or a [...]
A: How’s it hanging man?
B: Oh no.
A: Check it out dude?
B: Don’t say you’ve been watching Hannah Montana again?
A: Zacly
B: Bill Hicks had an interesting routine about Hannah Montana’s dad, you know?
A: Really.
B: Oh yes it was called ‘Hunt and …’but let’s move on.
A: OK
B: Well, I’ve just found a contender for worse book in [...]
A: So, what’s new?
B: I’ve been reading about a particularly interesting experiment carried out with miniature environments.
A: Miniature environments?
B: That’s what the report said – I guess they mean dolls houses.
A: I see. So this was a real report yes?
B: Of course it was. I read it in a book?
A: A full sized book?
B: Absolutely [...]
A: Croeso y blog
B: Blogio ?
A: Dim. Yn Cymraeg “Y blog” nag “blogio”.
B: Nice to see you’re getting the hang of this Welsh language.
A: Diolch.
B: Enough now.
A: So explain to the reader the lack of a blog for many moons.
B: Well as the discerning reader would have noticed we’ve moved country.
A: Back to Wales.
B: Correct.
A: [...]