celticdragonfly

So for Christmas I got Karl His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik or something like that. He liked it, and started looking her up, tossing her name at Amazon to see what else she'd written. So he's been telling me about what he found - that apparently there's a book that has a reference to a paper she wrote in grad school. He was also amused to see her referring to beta readers, looking up that yes she was a fanfic writer, and, as he puts it, "she's a geek!" So it isn't surprising he liked the book.

Just now he'd dug the page up again (hinting for sequels for his birthday present, you think?), and told me the name of the paper. "Measuring Thin-Client Performance Using Slow-Motion Benchmarking"

Then a moment later he says "And Peter Jackson has optioned the movie rights."

I had a moment of puzzled confusion - a movie on benchmarking? Then I realized OH, he means the Dragon book, right. I laughed and quoted the Tom Lehrer bit "with Doris Day playing the part of hypotenuse!"

So then I had to play the song for Karl. Although this version casts Ingrid Bergman...