An Embuggerance

[Beansprout]

Me and my friends grew up with Discworld

[Tak]

Just so people are aware there have been a couple of other news bits thru the link I posted - doesn't say much but its useful to know that updates will get posted at the same place

[Mark]

Typical...

Originally Posted by Terry Pratchett

Personally, I'd eat the arse out of a dead mole if it offered a fighting chance.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7291315.stm

[Blackstar]

I was watching a program about fantasy books last night Terry Pratchett was on it, it was a good program for being on at 12am

[Feek]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7291315.stm

Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett is to donate $1m for research into Alzheimer's disease........

The first thing that sprang into my mind, and I'm sure he'd giggle at it as well...

...... if he can remember where he left the cheque book!

[Tak]

From the Discworld Monthly email I subscribe to:

An April Update From Terry (15th April 2008):

My office is now effectively at a standstill. In fact, my office
is probably moving slightly backwards. It has not helped that a
five story rack of filed mail collapsed under the weight recently,
thus shuffling several thousand documents into new and interesting
combinations. Right now it is a good day if we can answer just
those emails that turn up on that day. Most days are nothing like
good days. Can we please say this:

I very much appreciate all the letters, emails and cards that have
come in, many of them recounting personal experiences and quite a
few passing on "survival kits". There does seem to be some people
out there who have managed at least to slow AD, although I have to
say that it does appear by taking various supplements, not by
milligram, but by grams :-o)

Nation has now been line-edited, and in theory I was going to have
a month or so off, although a large part of that will now be spent
reassembling what passes as our post room. In reality there are
now more calls on my time than there have ever been, to the point
where we are simply having to ignore approaches. I think we must
have had more than a dozen approaches from documentary companies
alone, and I think we shall now just stop sending out the "You are
too late, guys" emails (You may see us around and about being
followed by Craig and Charlie, who are making a documentary about
me for the BBC which will be broadcast next year.) I never
intended that I would be some kind of AD spokesman, but the world
seems to be deciding otherwise.

On a brighter note, I am now firmly ensconced with a specialist,
testing last week showed that nothing much had moved since the end
of November, except that in situations where I must parallel
process I find that serial processing is about as much as I can
achieve :-o)

There are a number of things planned for the rest of the year, and
they include cracking on with Unseen Academicals and also, with
any luck, playing a rather larger role in the making of Going
Postal.

- Terry Pratchett

[Flibster]

They're going to do a version of Going Postal?

Cool. I really enjoyed that book.

[Mark]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00bf008.shtml

Get it while you can (link expires next Thursday).

[Tak]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7561724.stm

Tonight 8:30 BBC 1 - could be worth a watch

[Tiggy]

Only just noticed this thread. I'll see if I can get in touch with his daughter Rhianna over the next few days and see if I can find out how her Dad is doing.

Not spoken to her for ooh, about 4 years now. If I cant get in touch with her, I'll see if I can speak to one of her exes.