Over at comic book resources, more talk about a searchable catalog for comic book stores from Augie De Blieck and Steven Grant. I think it is semi-amusing that people are discussing what this theoretical catalog should do, and no one has asked a librarian who would actually do this stuff all day long.
Basically one reason [...]

Tokyopop is going to sell manga in wal-mart, the mainstreaming of manga is complete. Shawn Fumo comments on manga marketing vs the marvel marketing for the Hulk, I had no idea that there was also manga in Stop and Shop supermarkets.

Despite picking up a rampaging cold from too much airplane travel earlier this week, I managed to find the strength to see the Mavericks play the Celtics last night. It was somewhat painful seeing the Celtics get back in the game in the 4th quarter to beat the Mavs. But I can console myself with [...]

Over the past couple days I’ve watched most of the first season of Alias. I’d forgotten how much the show has shifted in tone. Sydney doesn’t seem to take the time to light candles around her house and listen to weepy female oriented music anymore. Watching hours of the show back to back also tends [...]

With Blogstakes!
I got one of the BrowserCam runner-up prizes! Now I can run the websites of the libraries where my friends work through BrowserCam and gleefully inform them if the web pages don’t render correctly in Safari.
No, actually I’ve been wanting to learn more about using css and needing to revamp my blog design, so [...]

Over at Comic Book Resources, Steven Grant argues that comic book stores need a searchable online catalog, just like they have at the library.

Slate reviews dictionaries. Reading the article made me pause and think about the reference books I have in my apartment:
A 9th edition of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary.
WAY too many Japanese dictionaries:
Martin’s Basic Japanese Conversation Dictionary
Martin’s Concise Japanese Dictionary (I carted this around in my backpack in Japan)
The Nelson Modern Reader’s Japanese-English Character Dictionary
Sanseido’s Daily Concise English Japanese/Japanese [...]

This east coast snowstorm is quite something. I just got back in from shoveling off my car and the snow was so deep, my car doors were completely covered.

So for the past couple weeks, I’ve been watching all of Trigun. I’m not sure why I didn’t get into it when it was playing on the Cartoon Network, I think I was bitter about Cowboy Bebop being taken off the Adult Swim line-up. The earlier episodes of Trigun also just seemed a little too [...]

Hi people visiting this page from Indiana University’s Oncourse course management system. What’s going on in the midwest?