Today’s Peanuts reprint is one I remember laughing at in a paperback book many years ago. It was this sort of whimsy that makes Schulz’s work special, yet his bland personality made him seem incapable of his trademark flights of fancy! Click the thumbnail picture to enlarge.
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A highly-popular recent manga/movie/TV series in Japan is Train Man or, as it’s known there, Densha Otoko. It’s a romantic comedy that is supposed to be based on a true Internet bulletin board thread about an ultra-nerd who helps a girl that is accosted by a drunk on a subway.
This movie is all heart, with none of the mean-spirited macho posturing tone that afflicts The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Another nod to honorable Eric from his humble parents!
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Unless you’re into technology for its own sake, I strongly recommend using a blogging service, such as Wordpress.com or Blogger.com, rather than maintaining your own Web site, as I am doing. I started blogging as much for the learning experience as for the blogging. Well, sometimes learning is painful. But I have to admit, the hardest lesson I’ve learned is an old one — the absolute necessity of adhering to the rules that are followed where I work:
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Yes, the blog is back! You’ll find my notice about it about 10 posts ago. Those “new” posts are quickie attempts at re-doing a small portion of what was lost. I’m starting to recover psychically from the stress of an extremely tense session of dealing with the database and various iterations of backups.
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Back on June 2, before The Bad Thing happened to my database, I had noted the 40th anniversary of the American release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and compared the audio quality of an American LP on the Apple label, and a pressing from the glory days of British vinyl, using “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.” Hmm. Y’know, I’m not sure myself now, which is which. I’ll have to click back-and-forth to figure it out. Just did it. Oh, it’s obvious, which is better.
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