Wednesday, June 27, 2007

My new comic shop:
Giant Silver Surfer. I don't really care about the rest of the movie, but this is cool.

I canceled my pull file at the shop I've used for years here in Fort Wayne. I can't say I'm sorry, really, even though I was pretty much only keeping it for the sake of supporting the shop that got me started as a comic geek lo those many years ago. They had a habit of leaving books out of my file that I had requested, and I ended up going to Discount Comics for a couple of titles they never had in stock in the first place. As the name implies, Discount Comics sells comics at a deep discount. It's a locally owned brick and mortar shop that does mail orders to my new area, and the discount is about equal to the shipping charge. I would still pay full price at Alter Ego if I lived close enough, but I'm not driving to Muncie every Wednesday.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007


You believe it was... Muur-der?!

(edit- click to play the video)

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The new design is a result of Blogger telling me about lots of cool new features, then telling me my old template wouldn't work with the new stuff. They added the ability to add RSS feeds to the sidebar, something I've been eager to do with my Netflix queue. Technically, this works. The problem is that the feed doesn't update right. Netflix updates the feed automatically and the list stays current, but near as I can tell it's Blogger not checking the feed and updating properly. If the movie list disapears now and then it's because I'm frustrated with it. The other new addition is the countdown clock to Warren Ellis's first novel. A countdown to a book is pretty geeky already, but I'm looking forward to it that much.

I'm getting ready to move now. My stuff is scattered between the basement here and a storage facility near here. The new place has a dishwasher and a second room that I can use as and office. I get a balcony, a storage closet, new carpet and kitchen floor, and the laundry facility is right next to me. All this for only about $50 more than I was paying for the freezing cold gulag I used to live in.

Friday, June 15, 2007

The following is true:

I got a job at DePauw* University as a multimedia guru for alumni relations. Moving shall commence in the coming weeks. New clothing has been purchased to make me presentable. More on this as it develops.

I will probably still graduate, to answer the many who have asked about this. I don't know when or even how exactly, but the consensus seems to be that I should finish what I started out of boredom and desperation, even now that I am neither. If there were a way to pinpoint and remove certain classes from my memory upon completion of the degree, I would have made more of an effort to be done by now.

As my life gets more interesting than it has been recently, I'll blog more. They must have internet access where I'm going, right? It's between Indy and Rose Hullman- there must be an intarweb tube we can all siphon from.

* DePauw with the "w" is the one in Indiana. DePaul with the "l" is north of Chicago. I'm at the former.