Uzumaki, Volume 3
Title: Uzumaki, Volume 3
Author: Junji Ito
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC (February 12, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421513919
ISBN-13: 978-1421513911
This is the last volume of the Uzumaki graphic novel trilogy. This book is not as good as the others, chiefly because I don’t like the ending at all.
The stories are almost as strange as the other volumes, and [...]
April 12th, 2009 by alephnaught
The Shape of the Book: From Roll to Codex
Title: The Shape of the Book: From Roll to Codex
Author: Franka Arduini (ed.), Guglielmo Cavallo (essay)
Publisher: Mandragora, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-88-7461-116-4
I bought this book in the Duomo Museum in Siena. As the title indicates, its a book about books, or more accurately a catalog of some of the history of the written word. This book is not [...]
April 11th, 2009 by admin
April 7th, 2009 by alephnaught
The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures
Title: The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures
Author: Phoebe Gloeckner
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Frog Books (November 14, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1583940634
ISBN-13: 978-1583940631
I love the mix of graphics and story. This is a hard book to read from a content perspective. Its part graphic novel and its written as the diary or [...]
April 4th, 2009 by alephnaught
What I look like when I don’t shave
We took a 10 day trip to Italy, which actually means 12 days including the travel time. I didn’t bring a razor along. I thought it would be fun to show the daily effects of not shaving; I used the built-in iSight camera and Photobooth software to take the images, then used Morpheus Photo Morpher [...]
April 2nd, 2009 by alephnaught
I like to make things – my Toastmasters speech
Our local Toastmasters club selected me to compete in this year’s International Speech Competition. So, I got up early one Saturday and competed. My speech was entitled, “I Like to Make Things,” and I hope it captured how important creativity is to me; I talk about building a theatre organ from a kit when I [...]
April 2nd, 2009 by alephnaught
For Toastmasters: Table Topics
Toastmasters is a structured program to learn how to give good speeches. One section of a meeting is called “Table Topics,” which is an opportunity for people to speak extemporaneously. It can be hard to develop good Table Topics questions, so I’d like to suggest two that worked (very well, I got a lot of [...]
April 1st, 2009 by alephnaught
Blackberry App World quick review and pointer to a more detailed one
As I was reading the Engadget RSS feed, I saw an entry on Blackberry App World, so I grabbed a copy (you need to go to the Blackberry web site to download this application).
And it seems to work. I’ve downloaded a free application already (a calorie counter) and will be downloading a few more. Dead-easy [...]
March 31st, 2009 by admin
Many Italian tourist attractions are getting more savvy
We’ve been traveling to Italy for years (my first trip was 9 years ago). We’ve noticed that tourist attractions are getting more savvy.
For example, most churches and museums no longer allow photography inside, but they have nice full-color books available for purchase (when they don’t have a book they should allow photography – pet peeve, [...]
March 29th, 2009 by alephnaught
A Short History of Siena
Title: A Short History of Siena
Author: Giuliano Catoni
Paperback
ISBN-10: 8877813199
ISBN-13: 978-8877813190
Bought this book in Siena with high hopes; unfortunately, it was mostly a waste of time to read this on the flight home from Italy.
The author’s writing style is scattered; at times I thought Catoni would have some unifying themes, but they wouldn’t congeal. It [...]
English
April 16th, 2009 by alephnaught
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