Who? What? Where? When? Why? And sometimes how?
Trying to figure out which of these two shows are the best ones this season:
Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai, easily shortened to AnoHana, or Hanasaku Iroha. One’s with moe girls and the other one has moe girls, too.
What say you? Anything good this season?
Is this too much of a camera to buy? And is the price too expensive?
Maybe I should re-sync iPhone and change out all that holiday music and the holiday playlists. Do you still have your Christmas lights up?
Who will be hosting the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards?This may be an Oscar Pool tie-breaking question. Probably not.
My mom's main computer is a G3 iBook circa 2005/2006 (Not truly sure), and she's looking for a new computing experience. What should she get? An iPad? A new Apple laptop? An iPhone? Switch to the cheaper Wintel 7 platform? I have no idea and this post is trying to solicit responses and advice from my blog friends, all two of them!Anyway, my brother has been suggesting an iPhone. He thinks she's ready for the touch interface. I think she is too, but her computing hardware is sorely lacking. You need a MacIntel machine to actually run the latest iTunes to manage the iPhone. On top of buying a new iPhone, she'll still have to upgrade her laptop. Is that the best solution?I suggested and iPad. I thought it wouldn't need iTunes to manage it, but the more I think about the problem, the more it resembles the iPhone issue. She will still need an laptop to manage content on the iPad directly. Is this necessary and can she get away with using the iPad as a main computer?I was wanting to get her an upgrade to a new MacBook. I don't want her to as having the computing power is negated by what she uses the computer for: web-surfing and email. It would be a complete waste unless she begins to migrate to the computing age.What say you? What's the best upgrade path for her?
Why is it that the only vampire novels I have read are translated from Russian or Swedish? I hate vampires and vampire tales, so why did I/am I reading translated works of vampire lore? And is there a Japanese vampire novel that I should read?
So I started getting my stuff in order in my house. Things are still scattered all over my house, but I spent most of the morning cataloging my books using Delicious Monster’s Library. I’ve got lots and lots and lots of books almost 400, and I’ve yet to go into my office with the bookshelves. Tons of the books are manga. I’m gonna have to get rid of quite a few, because I can’t bear to re-read them or I didn’t like in the first place.
I decided to make use of the local used bookstore in town, Ukazoo. I know they buy books back, so I pack up my eight volumes of Black God and the volume of Biomega to test drive the book buy back. I’m no longer fascinated with Black God, and Biomega is not my cup of tea.
Into a bag they go, and I am off to Ukazoo. I drop them off at the buy back desk and wander around the store giving them a chance to decide how much they will pay me for used books.
Ukazoo’s manga section is somewhat sparse and features many older titles. I would like to grab a few, but that would defeat my purpose for coming here — to offload my junk without gaining any new junk.
I get back to the buy back desk. $4.98. Couldn’t they just make it a nice round $5?
I ask if they get any manga. She says they do, but they usually go to the warehouse to be sold online!!
So, I paid about $100 for 9 volumes of manga. They’ll buy it back for $5. They’ll then sell the manga for $4 a piece. I don’t know whether to feel outraged or relief.
On the one hand, my money is gone and I am not even coming close to recouping the cost. The store is gonna make good scratch off of me. On the other hand, my house is a smidge less cluttered. On the third hand, they only gave me $4.98!
Is the cost of having a less cluttered house worth $4.98? I think it may be, but I wish it was worth more. I feel foolish to accept such pittance, but I really want to get rid of this clutter. I did think about donating books to the public library for free and yet, I am bothered by this offer.
Should I be?
Which US presidents appear on paper currency?
What's the etiquette for when you enter a bathroom stall as someone leaves? Do you make a comment? Do you act offended? Or do you suck it up and hold your snarkiness in, because you're about to add to the atmosphere? Just wondering. (I was the one leaving, and another came in immediately as I walked out the stall.)
