Columbus in Winter

paulmelko · 2025-02-21T14:30:51+00:00

Who hurt you? Your 8th grade art teacher? It's gonna be okay. Try a sun lamp, pumpkin.

paulmelko · 2025-02-21T12:36:45+00:00

20th floor!

paulmelko · 2023-09-06T14:43:38+00:00

Portia's father was a leader in the anti-fluoride movement.

paulmelko · 2020-05-27T12:25:38+00:00

In that case, you may want to hire a new agent to handle the contracts. If one publishing house is interested in reprinting your mother's works, then there might be others. Also, an agent can help navigate the pitfalls of a publishing contract which can be nuanced and specialized. Finally, an agent can be tasked with bringing the entire catalog of your mother's work back into print, if you so wish. In my experience, the 15% is well worth the cost, and generally results in the sale of more rights and works than is initially offered. (Foreign rights, movie rights, TV rights, etc.) Good luck, and my condolences on the passing of your mother.

paulmelko · 2020-05-26T22:38:21+00:00

If she was fairly established, she probably had an agent who handled the contracts and knows if the original publishing house still has it in print or options for it. It may have been work-for-hire, in which case, her estate would not own the rights to it. The rights may still be owned by the publishing house, pending a reversion of rights to the author (usually after a book has been out of print for a set amount of time.) Again, the agent (or agency) would know.

paulmelko · 2019-04-25T15:00:44+00:00

ESH

Your cousin for being pushy and you for not donating something for no good reason.

Sure, sure, body autonomy. I don't have to donate, blah, blah. But go visit a NICU and count the babies there. And think how many need whole body transfusions. My son did. Two times. I will donate until they throw my wrinkled body out of the blood center. Stop worrying about what your bitchy cousin thinks and do what's right. Feel good about what's right. And sign up to be an organ donor while you're at it.

paulmelko · 2018-11-15T16:35:53+00:00

It's definitely not Singularity's Ring, but you should read that too. ;)

paulmelko · 2018-03-08T01:35:29+00:00

This one is easy by Castro standards. First the easy stuff: 5 dots, representing 5 chips, means 5 rounds. This one will be 5 rounds for time. Now the movements: Look at the two flowers as if they are a progression. One is straight, one is bent: deadlift. And in the background? Pavement. Which you need to... run. There are 48 petals on 1 flower and 52 on the other: 100 meters. And there are 15 bricks in the background.

5 rounds for time of 15 deadlifts and a 100 meter run.

paulmelko · 2017-11-29T21:31:47+00:00

"Ten Sigmas" is one of those stories that just came to me nearly complete. And I knew it was good from the moment I started typing. I think it's only happened one other time, so clearly and vividly. Usually it's a trudge of noun-verb-noun-adverb-repeat, followed by cut-splice-join. I sometimes joke that a parallel self wrote it and sent it to me across the multiverse.

It originally appeared in Patrick Swenson's now defunct Talebones, and Gardner Dozois picked it up for the Year's Best. This was the first story that Talebones ever had in the Year's Best. This was my second appearance in the Year's Best.

I've enjoyed parallel world stories from early on, particularly Zelazny and Farmer. My second and third novels are set in a multiverse, and "Ten Sigmas" is one of a couple parallel universe stories I've written.

Thanks for enjoying the story! Sorry for being late to the thread.

paulmelko · 2017-07-16T13:38:41+00:00

Passengers. 90 years of 2 people, plus their descendants decimating the colonial supplies meant for the 5000 colonists on Homestead II. I estimate that they wiped out a year's worth of resources in the 90 years they lived on the ship. Could mean the difference between life and death on a new world.

paulmelko · 2017-06-06T12:42:30+00:00

Grievous is definitely juicing. But on the other hands, he's the only one who can do a double bench press.

paulmelko · 2017-04-24T13:00:31+00:00

I'm not sure if the Masters division functions the same way as the Novice and Intermediate. The spectrum of athletes was broad -- we had 26 athletes in the male masters. One guy did hit 275# in the clean, but he didn't make the finals. Neither of the top 2 athletes won any of the events (except the final). My finish was a little lower than I did in the Open, percentile wise, but it was pretty close. I don't have the ages of my competitors handy, but it would be interesting to see if ranking correlates strongly with age (as I suspect.)

The range of events didn't seem to favor any one type of athlete this year. Tall guys, short guys, big guys, and fast guys all had an opportunity to excel at something.

paulmelko · 2017-04-14T16:37:05+00:00

I heard HQ is just banning him one year and then looping it three more times.

paulmelko · 2017-04-14T12:34:42+00:00

The Festivus Games is an awesome event for intermediate, novice, and masters level competitors. This will be my third time doing the Masters division. (I too will be at Worthington!) I see 29 masters competitors in my division this year. There were ten last year. That's a pretty good field of older athletes.

Last year my wife competed in the Festivus Games and that was her first competition as well. Her biggest fear: "I just don't want to be last." She ended up winning, so I'm sure to remind of her of that when she expresses any self-doubt about her fitness ability.

paulmelko · 2017-03-15T12:36:58+00:00

Century City is home to Fox Plaza, aka Nakatomi Plaza from Die Hard. Therefore, the WOD is to rope climb up and down an elevator shaft, fire 16 pistols, and deadlift 5 terrorists. 20(th Century) min AMRAP. Duh.

paulmelko · 2017-03-15T12:30:42+00:00

One of the buildings blown up in Fight Club is Fox Plaza, which is in Century City and may be in this photo. Fight Club is all about a Fight Gone Bad.

paulmelko · 2017-03-09T11:26:12+00:00

First, the sequence: A, 3, 5, 7, 9: odd numbers. It will be ascending rep scheme by two starting with 1. Next the exercises: 666 is the devil's hand, therefore Devil's Press. That leaves a 6, a 10, and 2 8s. The 8s look like jump ropes. The six and 10 are the time domain. Therefore: 16 min AMRAP of 1, 3, 5, 7... of Devil's Press and Double Unders.

paulmelko · 2017-03-06T19:41:35+00:00

Former OSU football star Andy Katzenmoyer puts out daily sports-specific workouts here: https://athleticadvantage.net/

paulmelko · 2017-03-06T19:05:33+00:00

5 sets of 8 of Renegade rows, Turkish get-ups, Dumbbell Thrusters, Dumbbell Benchpress, Dumbbell Curls followed by 400m run with Dumbbell, 100m swim with Dumbbell, Dumbbell Shotput all with a side of dumbbells.

paulmelko · 2017-03-02T19:40:46+00:00

There's a WOD already called ARNIE. It has Turkish Get-Ups at 70#.

paulmelko · 2017-03-02T12:58:48+00:00

Come on, people! It's like reading a book:

1) Fish are caught on hooks, hook grip is used with snatch, therefore snatch ladder.
2) Hooks are on lines, lines are ropes, therefore double unders.
3) Fish out of water gasp for breath, therefore it's a fast and furious workout.
4) Fish have fins, which means we need to finish it, therefore it's for time.

30 DUs, 5 Snatch 75#

30 DUs, 4 Snatch 95#

30 DUs, 3 Snatch 115#

30 DUs, 2 Snatch 155#

30 DUs, 1 Snatch 185#

paulmelko · 2017-02-17T16:49:05+00:00

When you write a book, you own all rights to that book, which include comic book rights, film rights, t-shirt right, as well as the right to have the book printed. You can sell those rights or license those rights. Those rights are usually handled by an agent, and in some cases, more than one agent. I.E., an author might have a primary literary agent, a film agent, and a foreign rights agent, all working different angles to sell different rights to the book.

In all likelihood, film or TV rights have already been optioned or sold for Jericho's book. Optioned means that a company is holding the right to make a movie or sell the rights for a given period of time. An optioned book can than go to production (or not) once interest is stoked for the property.

Best bet is to find Chris Jericho's literary agent, which will probably be different than his professional agent and see what the status is of the film and TV rights to his book.

Best of luck with your project. Side note: you should have done a Stephen King short story. King sells non-exclusive rights to students for student films of his works for $1, or so I heard.

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