Comments on: The Element of Fire

By: Eat Our Brains » Blog Archive » Unca Scott Makes A Movie!

Eat Our Brains » Blog Archive » Unca Scott Makes A Movie! — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:28:00 +0000

[...] lead singer, and often song-writer for the late, somewhat- lamented Los Blues Guys. His song ‘The Element of Fire‘, based on the classic Martha Wells novel of the same name, is one of my favorites, though [...]

By: Jayme Lynn Blaschke

Jayme Lynn Blaschke — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:33:18 +0000

I’d be remiss in my duties if I didn’t point out that RevolutionSF is also serializing The Element of Fire. Good stuff!

And I have to admit that I still have a copy (somewhere) of Martha’s first Thomas Boniface story that was workshopped at that first A&M writers, um, workshop thingy.

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:13:52 +0000

All fixed. Turns out you need to put it the php.ini file in the directory that has the php script that is calling for the upload. Since I didn’t know which one that was, I put it in all five php dirs.

Then uploaded a 5.3 Mb file.

(Still prefer the ftp–gives you a progress bar after all. And I think it’s faster.)

By: Rory Harper

Rory Harper — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:47:30 +0000

I think you should crash the server so that it will be forced to reboot.

…Uh, kidding, just really kidding, BlueHost nice people. Don’t cancel our account…

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:34:53 +0000

Well, I’ve made the changes to the PHP then tried to upload a 5.3M file. If failed with the same error.

Could be that something needs to be done to make it reread the .ini file. In the meanwhile, ftp will definitely work.

By: Rory Harper

Rory Harper — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:26:56 +0000

Thanks, Steve – Yeah, the PHP errror was what I got when I tried to upload late last night. I’m still gonna get my own site up this week, just to have control of that issue. I’ll try loading the next one I do at EoB and see if it takes. The max song size I’m likely to want to run is under 10 MB.

Troyce — Yeah, you guys and Scott both had some of the finest weddings I’ve done. I’ve got about a dozen under my belt (or robe, as the case may be…) Only two of them that I know of didn’t take. I gave Peter’s my best shot, but….

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:38:36 +0000

Hey, Troyce!

Rory, besides ftp, you should be able to use the wordpress upload file thingy, now. There is a file called php.ini where the upload limit was set at 2M. Is now 30M, in case we want to host videos, thought that would kinda silly with things like youTube around.

(There is a chance that the Bluehost people have an upper limit on php file transfer, so the 30M thing is not for sure.)

By: Troyce

Troyce — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:24:32 +0000

Wow, thanks for posting the mp3 of that song. I agree, it’s one of Scott’s best. I can add it to the iPod now.

Yes, Ed and Casey’s was my first wedding to ever officiate (I’ve done two others afterwards), and Rory did a super job with ours. He also performed Scott’s, of Los Blues Guy’s fame. Martha’s aunts wanted to know what church Rory pastored, since they liked his performance to much LOL.

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:08:36 +0000

Simulcomment. I’ll see if there is a setting in the wordpress stuff that limits it and can be bumped upward. How big are the song files?

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:03:12 +0000

Damn. Went over to where she’s put the text to see what kind of licensing she did (not specified) and got sucked in. Read a chapter before I pulled myself out again. And I’ve read that book over a dozen times already.

By: Rory Harper

Rory Harper — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:57:46 +0000

Stevie — Rats. I remember our chat about how we had space and bandwidth. Didn’t remember the part about having to FTP in — EVEN THOUGH THERE IS AN UPLOAD SECTION ON THE POST CREATION PAGE, THAT WORKS JUST FINE WITH OTHER FILES.

*grunt*

Thank you. We now return you to your regular programming.

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:11:10 +0000

Rory, use the bluehost info I gave you. You’ll be able to ftp into http://ftp.eatourbrains.com and drop it into where ever you want. I suggest we create a subdir under the main html directory called “songs” or “music”.

We can also put “Texas Flood” in there.

(We’ve got 50 gigs. We’ll be okay.)

By: LauraJMixon

LauraJMixon — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:06:31 +0000

Hell yes! It’s one of the best fantasies I’ve ever read.

By: Rory Harper

Rory Harper — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:24:08 +0000

Yep, to all of your comments…

For what it’s worth, Martha and Troyce’s wedding was the first one I officiated at. I still have extremely fond memories of it…

By: Casey Hamilton

Casey Hamilton — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:41:53 +0000

Ohmigod, yes! Read The Element Of Fire!! Let’s just say, before we moved 2,400 miles, there was a RUTHLESS purge of our books. There was never any question that Martha’s output was coming with us. Plus, she’s just about the sweetest person I’ve ever met. PLUS, Troyce married me’n'Ed mumblty years ago.