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Comics Review X2: Edgar Allan Poe and Springheeled Jack0
Comic Review X2: Edgar Allan Poe's Spirits of the Dead and Springheeled Jack
Reviews by: Prof. Jenn
Edgar Allan Poe's Spirits of the Dead by Richard Corben
The well-thought-out introduction to this collection states that Poe's oeuvre is one of the most frequently comic-ized bodies of literature around. The dark subject matter and often taut tension makes for a good image-to-text pairing, I would guess, and the mysterious nature of much of the subject matter lends well to the interstitial storytelling of comics. Being able to read between the frames is especially appropriate for the unhinged characters and strange plots of Poe.
If only this collection rose to the occasion.
What I liked:
- The androgynous, Faerie-ike narrator character, Mag, who looks as though she stepped right out of Brian Froud's Faeries, and who links all the stories together like a TV host.
- The brief, sometimes one-frame flashes of a dream-like world within a real one. It's an entertainingly jarring effect, like in films Natural Born Killers or Fight Club.
What I didn't like:
- The art is so grotesque as to be distracting to the storytelling. In a Poe collection the emphasis should be on a twisted dream world or world of madness, as graphically violent as the stories can sometimes get. The art doesn't evoke Poe, but goes beyond the grotesque into the just, well, gross.
- While I can appreciate that putting the Poe stories (and especially poems) into a different medium requires some adaptation, blatantly changing the endings to stories, or rewriting events is taking adaptation too far. The worst culprit of this treatment is "The Raven"–not only is it no longer in verse, but in brutal, sparse prose, with a completely different outcome to the climax of the narrative. What was a psychological thriller (with a verse rhythm well-suited to illustration) turns into a badly written gory slasher film.
Bottom Line: Unfortunately, I can't recommend Poe's Spirits of the Dead. It doesn't do Poe justice.
Springheeled Jack by David Hitchcock
It's not every day you see a black and white graphic novel, and it's rarer still when it is richer than many full color ones. Springheeled Jack is a masterful graphic novel which takes a real legend from Victorian England and spins explanations (and other literatures, characters, etc. from that era) into a compelling Twilight-Zone-like story.
This book won an Eagle Award for Favorite Black and White Comic, and it's easy to see why. The richness of the grayscale matches the London fog of the setting (and the morose mood of our protagonist) perfectly, and the detail in each panel is astounding. Those who like to read the fine print in their comics, both in words and in images, will enjoy savoring each page of this book, even as they can't wait to turn said pages, to see what will happen next.
The terror of Springheeled Jack was an unsolved mystery that pervaded the mid-1800s streets of London–what devil-like horror was it that killed and disappeared so many people? This story takes a plausibly creative sci-fi turn on the "true" events and also ends on an amorphous enough note that we can hope the story will continue.
Bottom Line: I highly recommend Springheeled Jack for comic lovers, steampunk aficionados, and anyone else who likes a thriller with sci fi flavors.
Comics Review: Crime Does Not Pay vol.80
Comics Review: Crime Does Not Pay vol. 8: ed. Philip R. Simon
Review by Prof. Jenn
The 8th volume of vintage comics, Crime Does Not Pay, is an entertaining collection of not only vintage true crime comic stories but a delightful and instructional collection of vintage ads as well. Remember when I reviewed volume 5? Well volume 8 is even more entertaining as well as historically educational.
The true crime stories in this volume are more gruesome than in volume 5, and more diverse, as we have female villains in this as well as your customary male '30s-'40s gangster types. The ghostly narrator character is back, celebrating his acolytes' descent into worse and worse malfeasance, until their comeuppance causes the repeated declaration, Crime Does Not Pay. The art is colorful and newspaper-y in style, and the ads are a continued delight in historical study and odd nostalgia, as are the letters to the editor. Two dollars for a published letter? Count me in…
Bottom Line: The Crime Does Not Pay series is a fun read and an excellent exercise in edutainment.
Comic Review: Steed and Mrs. Peel #30
Comic Review: Steed and Mrs. Peel–We're Needed #3 by Edginton, Cosentino, et. al.
Review by Prof. Jenn
In this, the concluding issue of the three-part "episode," Mrs. Peel comes to the rescue of Mr. Steed by encountering help of a surprising nature. Of course, just like the TV show, the bad guys get their comeuppance and the good guys prevail. Differently than the show, however, is the open-ended flavor of the ending, suggesting sequels to come.
The art is still consistently good, dark outlines and vivid color adding to the mod feel of the '60s show, and the flow of the panels show the action very well. The bizarre yet tight plot is well constructed in both the dialogue and the images, and overall this is a rollicking good tale suitable for inclusion In the best of the Steed/Peel TV eps.
Bottom Line: the third in this series is a high quality read. Highly recommended.
Comic Review: Steed and Mrs. Peel #20
Comic Review: Steed and Mrs. Peel–We're Needed #2 by Edginton, Cosentino, et. al
Review by: Prof. Jenn
We've come to the part in the story (from the old Avengers TV series) when our heroes Mr. Steed and Mrs. Peel are in such a pinch we can't imagine how they will get out of it. Mrs. Peel is interviewing sinister twin criminals and following up on her clues, and Steed is in a particularly precarious situation, vulnerable to the villain of the story. It's tense and investigatory, as a good Avengers episode should be.
The art continues to be consistently high quality (with an especially lovely cover painting of Mrs. Peel) and works well as storytelling. The characters look enough like Macnee and Rigg that we know who they are, but not so much like actor portraits that we are taken out of the fictional world.
Bottom Line: This is a great series and I can't wait to see what happens next.
Comic Review: Rocky and Bullwinkle vol. 20
Comic Review: Rocky and Bullwinkle vol. 2 by Al Kilgore, et al
Review by Prof. Jenn
Maybe the first volume was fresh and new to me and now the novelty has worn off? Maybe the stories collected in the first volume were actually better overall than the second? Maybe it's a matter of quantity getting in the way of quality as far as an enjoyment palette? In any case, volume 2 of the Rocky and Bullwinkle comics didn't delight as much as the first collection. Again, I can't blame it on the makers, I'm thinking it's a matter of overdose.
Don't get me wrong: I love these guys, and I love the authentic style of both the writing and the art. It's like watching a bunch of episodes. Maybe that's it–maybe seeing this many episodes in a row is too much.
Bottom line: This collection is honestly just great. If you have kids who are getting into the franchise, if you're a fan (or especially collector) yourself, this is a great collection to have. Either collection is a good collection for a coffee table or a bookshelf anyway, if I'm perfectly honest.
Comic Review: The Star Wars0
Comic Review: The Star Wars by Rinzler, Mayhew, et. al
Review by Prof. Jenn
So this is a comic trade that is based off of George Lucas' original-original rough draft of the screenplay for The Star Wars. That is, Star Wars before it got edited for quality and way before it got re-purposed for less quality and more busy unnecessary additions.
I have my opinions, more as a literature expert than an old-school Star Wars nerd, though I must confess I am equally both. It's important that Han shot first, but I can actually explain to you literarily why. The scene at the Millennium Falcon added in w/Jabba? Completely unnecessary. But I've got the literary chops to explain why, beyond my nerd rage.
Now, it seems that several geek-culture favorites these days tend to fall into the trap of the fan-service. The fan-service is the thing that happens in the story of a new episode of a thing that does nothing for the actual plot except show a thing that will make fans squee. See: the entire movie Phantom Menace. See also: the ending of Doctor Who episode "Deep Breath." (We can talk about this later if you like.)
This comic story is based on Star Wars before it was Star Wars: we've got snippets of images of all three of the older movies (Tatooine, betrayed youg'uns, snippets of Yavin and the Wookiees very similar to the Ewok uprising in RotJ, a Leia and, well, Annikin romance but he's really the Luke character in this story), some themes and dreary plot points from the newer movies (politics, trade embargoes, wily and lying politicians, overly ornate headgear for the Princess/Queen), and all the art smacks of the concept art all us Star Wars nerds know and love from the pen of Ralph McQuarrie. The oddly androgynous C-3PO, the Luke Starkiller with the buzzcut mullet, the green-skinned amphibious Han Solo, and the oddly bug-eyed Chewbacca all come from McQuarrie's illustrations we all know and love.
Thing is, when you read this, you can really appreciate the changes made to Episodes 4-6. You really can. You can appreciate the available charm of its characters, its streamlined Hero's Journey of an action-based plot, and its iconic tropes buffered to a new sheen. The story of this comic is tired, too complex, too wordy in ways no one speaks (okay well all the movies are like this too) and, well, basically, nothing really…happens.
What this is is fan service: for those of us who were obsessed with this epic series and who wanted more from the prequels, those of us who appreciated the streamlined storytelling before Lucas got the tech and was allowed to add in extraneous whatever-he-wanted, this is a window into the writing process and indeed the creative process itself.
It's interesting.
It's not a great comic.
Bottom line: I don't recommend this to anyone but the most completionist collector or the most die-hard Star Wars fan. It's a dreary, plodding, clunkily-drawn peek into an early draft of a movie series we're glad got edited from it. It's fun to see McQuarrie's creations in a sort of action, though.
Comic Review: Dark Engine0
Dark Engine by Ryan Burton and John Bivens is a new comic that plenty of my friends have been waiting on, and after reading it, I'm reasonably certain that no one has been or will be disappointed. First of all, the cover art is really nifty, portraying the focus of the comic, a girl who looks fierce and incredibly intimidating with a giant sword. I'm certainly not an artist, but I really like the style of art being shown in this comic. It's very otherworldly, and definitely helps to transport you into the chaos within the story.
From the beginning, this comic throws you into a world that is unlike anything that we are used to. There are a surplus of creatures that somehow fall between prehistoric and alien in appearance. We meet the girl from the cover rather quickly. As expected, she quickly starts slaughtering things, presumably because she's a total badass. Directly following this, we start to see some other new characters talking about the girl, who we now learn is called: Sym. There is talk of the magic and sacrifice used to create her, and we are informed that she has been made to kill some enemy.
It's divulged that she was fitted with some sort of engine (I'm assuming a Dark Engine, but that could just be me being presumptuous) by one of the characters. This character seems haunted by this engine, which we find out is being used to send Sym back in time in order for her to kill this enemy before they could ruin the world in the way that they did (which is only being expressed through the art at the moment). We learn that the engine is sending Sym into various periods of time until it can somehow right itself, and we're given a glimpse into the possibility that the engine might actually think for itself.
The comic ends with plenty of mystery after a character nonchalantly states that Sym will likely kill anything she comes in contact with across these time periods (and we actually see her brutally slaying something). Already, I want to know more about how Sym and how she was created. I'm definitely interested in learning about the inner workings of this engine, and what it is capable of. I also want to know exactly who this enemy is and what he used to destroy the world. Really, I just want to know more about everything, and I'm really hoping that the next one comes with a little insight into this interesting world.
So, uh, read this. It's a good one.
Daliya Risik
Comic Review: Steed and Mrs. Peel–We Are Needed0
Comic Review: Steed and Mrs. Peel: We Are Needed #1 by Edginton, Cosentino, et al Review by Prof. Jenn
Imagine my delight when I saw this title pop up on BOOM!'s forthcoming comics list! I didn't know they were making comic versions of this old favorite of mine! Now these, kids, are the real Avengers, as far as I'm concerned, and I had high standards going into this first issue. The TV show was a delicate combination of weirdly out-there almost sci-fi and taut spy thriller/detective procedural, which is a difficult balance to get right (*cough* the 1998 movie *cough*). This writer/artist combo has nailed it.
We begin issue #1 by seeing a murder, not knowing who is involved or why, only that there are dollhouses about. Then we are introduced to our two heroes the way every Steed/Peel episode did on TV: the phrase "Mrs. Peel, we are needed" revealed in a cute and clever way. The story in this first issue unfolds and by the time we get to the end of the issue we definitely are clamoring to see what will happen next. Which is the way the TV show was, too.
The art is colorful and rather "mod" in style, which is perfect for the setting and characters. As you've heard me say many times before when reviewing Doctor Who and Firefly comics, it's a special trick to comic-book-ize a live TV show, as you don't want to do just an actor portrait, but you don't want to draw the characters so unlike their actors that they are unrecognizable, either. This issue nails it, again.
Bottom Line: I highly recommend Steed and Mrs. Peel: We Are Needed (why aren't they calling it The Avengers? Copyright w/Marvel?) and can't wait for the next issue.
Comic Review: Serenity #60
Comic Review: Serenity, Leaves on the Wind #6 by Whedon, Jeanty, et. al
Review by Prof. Jenn
The Leaves on the Wind series concludes with this tying up of loose ends and opening up of new ones for, we can assume, the next phase of the story. The conclusions of Zoe's rescue and that of the Alliance-stolen-girls-a-la-River is actually pretty brief, truth be told. We had such build up of preparation in the previous issues that the culmination is just a little…well just a little disappointing, that's all. Though there is a new potential (major!) problem introduced at the end…
The story, beyond being a bit brief as I have mentioned, boasts the same familiar character quality I have admired about the previous issues, and the art has the same weakness of character portrayal I have mentioned in earlier reviews. This issue is no different, though it is nice to have a little more about our new fighter character and be introduced to yet another character who looks as though she'll be recurring at least, if not a major player in the battles to come.
Bottom Line: This issue is recommended, with the same caveats I detailed in the reviews of previous issues.
Comics Review: Batman Silver Age0
Comics Review: Batman Classics–the Silver Age Newspaper Comics vol.1 by Ellsworth, Moldoff, Infantino, et. al
Review by Prof. Jenn
What a fun collection of vintage comics featuring everyone's favorite dynamic duo! It's a trip into the cheesy one-liner past of Batman's late 1960s appearance in newspapers. This collection begins with a wonderfully detailed rundown of the history by Joe Desris, and is enlightening to read just before plunging into the series of snippet-length strips.
These are not old comic books, they are comic strips from newspapers 1966-67, so they are all brief, cheesy, sketchy, mid-low quality art, with a little joke or a PSA at the beginning of each ("Never fight with a smiling fortune-teller." "Unless you want to strike a happy medium!"). We meet several of our favorite villains, with some I've not heard of before. And yes, there is some material here not appropriate for a modern audience, in the realm of sexism, and racism especially. Any of you Batman nerds remember The Laughing Girl? Ugh…
For all its vintage kitsch, this volume is a pleasure to read, and certainly anyone who collects Batman should have this in their library, even if they prefer the dark Nolan variety of the Caped Crusader. It's a funny, refreshing collection that is a nice reminder of where Batman was before his gritty reboot.
Bottom Line: This collection is highly recommended, old chum.


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The Sahakarna Janadhipathiya Vedi, an outfit under the tutelage of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), has expressed concern at the Income Tax Department's directives seeking the disclosure of details of depositors in cooperative banks and societies.
The State committee of the vedi, which met here on Saturday, pointed out that cooperative bodies functioning in rural areas have been utilising deposits for extending agriculture and non-agriculture advances in the respective areas. The new norms will lead to a steep fall in deposits of these bodies.
Vedi chairman and KPCC treasurer Karakulam Krishna Pillai said the vedi had earlier submitted a memorandum to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and as a follow-up, proposed to submit another memorandum to the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister with the assistance of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala.
The meeting welcomed the State government's decision to withdraw a charge of 2 per cent registration fee under the Guhan scheme in the cooperative sector and congratulated the Chief Minister and the Finance Minister for their initiatives.
The meeting also criticised the attempts of the Vigilance and Home Departments to tarnish the image of Consumerfed by carrying out raids in spite of the new heights the organisation had scaled in the field of public distribution in the State. The organisation had broken new grounds in the last two years that the United Democratic Front has been in power, a resolution adopted by the committee said.
It wanted the Chief Minister and the KPCC president to intervene to get the Home and Vigilance Departments stop its raids that would affect its functioning.

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This weekend, March 21 and 22, the Kansas Orchid Society will present the "Spring Into Orchids" show and sale at Botanica. Hobbyists will exhibit their finest orchids for judging and vendors will offer orchid plants and growing supplies for sale. The Spring Orchid Show and Sale will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 21, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission to the show … [Read more...]
Special Deals and Events at Wichita's Botanical Gardens
I've written about so many wonderful events at Botanica over the years. Here is an archive that includes most of them.
The free admission on Mother's Day at Botanica was actually one of the events I attended that inspired me to start Wichita on the Cheap.
Botanica FREE Family Fun Fair
Enjoy free admission, crafts for the kids, and exploring the gardens during the annual winter garden party at Botanica. Kids can participate in hands-on activities and everyone can explore Wichita's botanical garden. Admission and all activities are free! Botanica's FREE Family Fun Fair will be held Saturday, February 7, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 2015 Botanica FREE Family Fun … [Read more...]
Adults Pay Kids' Prices at Illuminations
To make the last week of the holiday special, Botanica is partnering with the Kansas Food Bank for Kid at Heart week, where adults pay kid prices when they bring in two cans of food. From Dec. 26 to Dec. 31, adults will pay just $6 for a ticket when they bring in 2 cans of food for the Kansas Food Bank. There is no limit to the number of cans or people in your party in order to receive the … [Read more...]
BOOtanica this Saturday
Bootanica, Botanica's fun fall fundraiser, will be held Saturday, October 11, 2014. It's an opportunity for kids to give their costumes a test drive, make some crafts, play, and enjoy Botanica in the fall. Bootanica costs $8 per person; $6 for Botanica members. Children under 3 get in free. Bootanica crafts and activities will be located at stations throughout the entire gardens. Kids can … [Read more...]
FREE Museums on the River Teacher Appreciation Event
Teachers, we appreciate you! The Museums on the River in Wichita want to show their appreciation of teachers at a free reception on September 5, 2014. http://youtu.be/PaHJRLoCyWc All area educators can join the museums at Botanica on that Friday evening from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. for a fun and relaxing cocktail reception with tasty food, live music, and special prizes. Teacher Appreciation Night is … [Read more...]
Asian Night Market Fundraiser at Botanica
Botanica has begun construction of a Chinese Garden of Friendship to celebrate the Sister Cities relationship between Wichita and Kaifeng, China and serve as a bridge connecting cultures in our community. The garden is expected to be completed in the Spring of 2015. On August 16, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Botanica will host an Asian Market Night fundraiser with a variety of Asian arts, crafts, … [Read more...]
FREE Fathers Day Kite Festival in Wichita
Take Dad out for a fun afternoon on Fathers Day, June 15, 2014. Botanica will hold a Fathers Day Kite Festival with music, food, activities for the kids, and - if the wind cooperates - lots of kite-flying! Dads get in free; everyone else pays only $5 for admission. Update! They've changed the cost of admission to the low, low price of FREEEEEE! For everyone! You can bring your own kites or buy … [Read more...]
Butterfly Festival
Botanica's butterfly house is always a popular part of the gardens. The Butterfly Festival, an official 2014 Riverfest event, will feature butterfly-related games and activities, discounted admission and other perks, and the first 100 children will get to release a butterfly into the house. You can also have a photo taken by Art's Photography, and get a free snow cone with any purchase at Pat's … [Read more...]


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Posts Tagged 'E-Commerce'
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We are pleased to present below all posts tagged with 'E-Commerce'.
15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design and How to Avoid Them (via @smashingmag) -
Selling online can open up huge new markets for many businesses. When your store can be open 24/7 and you can reach a global market without the costs of mailings and call centers, it can be a huge boon to your business. But there are plenty of things to consider when designing an ecommerce site. It's not as simple as throwing up some shopping cart software and plopping products into a database.
There are tons of mistakes that online retailers make every day, all of them avoidable with a little careful planning. And even if you're already committing some of these mistakes, most of them are easy enough to fix. Avoiding them will greatly improve the experience of your customers.
Below are 15 of the most common mistakes that e-commerce sites make, as well as advice on how to avoid or fix them. Take the advice under consideration before embarking on a new e-commerce project or when thinking over your current ecommerce site, and make efforts to follow the recommendations outlined here.Read more...
E-Commerce websites are often thought of as typically being unattractive or poorly designed. In this post we will feature 35 appealing designs of online shops. Those featured in this post include examples from a variety of different industries and showcase several different styles of design.
Throughout this showcase the most noticeable trend of well-designed e-commerce sites is the use of high-quality photos. Many of the sites use large images on the homepage, and product and model photography is always important for creating interest from visitors.
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Shopping online can be a great experience. You don't have to leave the comfort of your home and you can quickly compare and read about all the competing products in order to pick the best one for you. But it can also be a little frustrating if the process isn't designed correctly.
Looking around for that checkout link, having to fill out registration forms and then being told the product is out of stock isn't going to make your day. Spend a little bit of time fine tuning your checkout process and polishing off the user experience and you'll be rewarded with happier customers and more sales. Here are 12 useful tips to help you do just that.Read more...
If you've managed to sell a product to a customer, use this opporunity to present further attractive offers to the customer. The topic "behavioral targeting", a technique that uses information collected on an individual's web-browsing behavior, such as the pages they have visited or the searches they have made, to select which advertisements to display to that customers. Many advertisers believe that this technique can dramatically help to boost the conversion rate.
Behavioral targeting is probably currently the most discussed advertising strategy. However, it is not clear if it possible to derive some meaningful customers' preferences and future behavior out of the earlier purchasing history. Wrong adjustments – based upon the browsing history – can significantly decrease the conversion rate as well.Read more...
In eCommerce usability improvements usually have a huge impact on conversion rates. However, usability doesn't only mean better visual guide or better site hierarchy. It also means a better communication with potential customers using a professional, trustworthy design, delivering the right information at the right time and communicating with users instead of throwing ad-slogans at them.
In this article you'll learn what to consider when preparing a perfect landing page for your product, how to focus user's attention on the most important parts of your sites and also how you can use videos and user ratings to improve your conversion rates.Read more...
Sometimes small changes can have huge effects. Concerning conversion rates, which is the proportion of website visitors who submit their contact information or make a purchase, better Web design leads directly to greater revenue.
Most online store designers who want to optimize their conversion rates only concentrate on the "inner" part of the shopping process, the sales funnel. They focus on product pages, the shopping cart and check-out-process. This is good, but not necessarily sufficient. It is equally important that advertisements convert – just as the simple fact that users find the URL and that both (ads and URLs) perfectly fit the image conveyed by the landing page. Sound practices make for the most successful conversions.
There are thousands of tips and tricks for increasing conversion rates. There are various marketing techniques that aim at simplyfing the purchasing and the checkout processes. This article is the first part of our new 3-part-series "Optimizing Conversion Rates" that covers most important strategies and techniques that will help you boost your conversion rate. The second part will be published next week, and the last part will be published the week after that. The first article deals with "proper" advertising, building up trust and credibility and the handling of shipping costs.Read more...
Last week we presented 8 Useful Tips To Help Your Website Convert – we discussed various rules and guidelines from marketing, such as subliminal suggestion, prevention of choice paralysis, AIDA-principle, attention guide and the Gutenberg rule. The main idea was to help designers and developers create a design that would help the site to grow and become a success the financial point of view.
This article presents further principles and rules that will help your site convert. Among other things, we cover A/B testing, footnotes, testimonials, feature lists, the sign-up process and typography. You may be interesting in the following related posts:


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How is everyone feeling?
Sorry I haven't been around. Just busy and exhausted! Happy that everyone is moving along well though! So nice to have this group of mamas to go through everything with!
Anyway, I went to my first ob appointment today ( yay! I'm "normal"!) and everything was fine, which is beyond exciting. Also got to see the bean again and that's always nice. Kinda starting to look like a baby now!
Bt the doc of course brought up the whole CVS versus Anmio testing and we have to start thinking about it. She said its not mandatory but recommended because DH and I are 36.
Anyone there yet or have any thoughts about it?
Guess I feel like I rather know sooner than later but it seems like CVS has more risks? Though not according to my doc. She said risk is very low for both.
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I was thinking the other day what it would be like to walk up to the Tiki Juice Bar and peel off a couple of hundred dollar bills, and tell them "Set up the house--free Dole Whips for everyone until this runs out."
Not that I have that kind of money--I surely don't. But it would be fun to watch, both the CMs and the guests. In fact, I bet it would be a blast.
What if you could "give something away" like that? "Buy" all the popcorn stands in the Hub for an hour? A couple of balloon vendors? A churro cart? Everyone gets a free cookie and a Coke?
If one of the best pleasures in life is giving things away, I can't think of many better ways to make a day different in Disneyland. Anyone else have any fantasies like this?


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>Ah, you mean 44, Don't program by coincidence. Not to mention 30, You
> > From: yet another bill smith <bigbill.smith@...>
> > Subject: Re: Programming by accident considered harmful
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> > 1. My thanks to J B for putting into clear words some thoughts that had
> > been rattling around between my ears for some time. I love the
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> I will dutifully forward 98% of that to Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt. If you
> haven't read "The Pragmatic Programmer", then go read it right now.
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from the mali-pitchers dept.
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I know they keep the drivers proprietary to keep their special 3d chip tricks to themselves, but can't you just feed it tables of vectors and vectors and be done with it? Why do you need such a low level access that apparantly shows all their company secrets?
Before all you say performance! My question would be , really?
Increasingly, GPUs are just general-purpose processors that are optimised for a very different set of algorithms to CPUs (i.e. stream-based access to memory instead of lots of locality of reference, primarily floating-point vector data instead of integer data, and few branches instead of about one every 7 instructions on average for CPUs). This means that a GPU driver is increasingly just a compiler. There is a lot less of a reason to keep the details of the hardware instruction set secret, because, as with something like ARM or x86, the valuable bit is how it's implemented, not the instruction set itself. This also means that there's a lot of incentive to keep the in-house drivers secret, because the difference between a bad compiler and a good one can easily be a factor of two in terms of performance with real code and sometimes a lot more.
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Truth and Virtue Uphold the Republic
The qualifications for self-government are not innate. They are the result of habit and long training. - Thomas Jefferson
Welcome to The Estancia Valley Classical Academy
As did America's Founding Fathers, the Estancia Valley Classical Academy believes that the preservation of liberty depends on an intelligent and moral citizenry. In order for Americans to secure the way of life we enjoy, our youth must know and understand the truths and principles that define Western Civilization and underlie the American Constitution.
About us
The Estancia Valley Classical Academy is a free, public K-12 Charter School, chartered through the State of New Mexico and located between Moriarty and Edgewood, New Mexico. View More »
GC MEETING Announcements
A quorum of the Governing Council may be present at a meeting between the EVCA administration and the New Mexico Public Education Department at EVCA on Thursday March 26th. No Governing Council business will be conducted and no decisions will be made.
A quorum of the Governing Council may be present at the Enrollment Information meeting on Thursday, March 26th, from 7-8pm. No Governing Council business will be conducted and no decisions will be made.
The Governing Council (GC) is effectively EVCA's school board. As the Governing Council meetings are public meetings, parents, students or staff are welcome to attend if they wish. Regular meetings have a time set aside for public comment, though the time available may be limited. All GC meetings are held at the school (123 Impala Ct., Moriarty, NM) in building 1.
EVCA Enrollment
For parents of prospective students, there will be an Enrollment Information meeting at EVCA on Thursday, March 26th, from 7-8pm in the science room (the Western-most building, last door on the left).
EVCA is now in the process of enrolling Siblings for the Fall of 2015. A packet of information has been distributed to parents of currently enrolled students.
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The EVCA Foundation is a non-profit entity that raises funds on behalf of the school. Currently, they are raising money to fund the purchase of land for a permanent school and construction of new school buildings! Click here to go to the new EVCA Foundation website.
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Samsung is one of the largest smartphone developer now. Here a huge list of samsung mobile secret codes which will help you to solve many problems. I have checked most of these codes in my samsung galaxy . Hope you will enjoy it. It all codes are working galaxy s samsung and all other galaxy samsung series phones.
- *2767* => JAVA# Java Reset and (Deletes all Java Midlets)
- *2767* => MEDIA# Reset Media (Deletes All Sounds and Pics)
- *2767* => WAP# Wap Reset
- *2767* => CUST# Reset Custom EEPR0M
- *2767*FULL# Reset Full EEPR0M For (example : *2767*JAVA# would be keyed in as *2767*5282# ) (Caution)
- The master reset code is: #*7728# (This will not delete anything from your mobile phone, but set each and everything to its default/standard setting as it was on the time of purchase.)
Other Samsung Codes
- *#9998*4357# Help Menu
- *#9998*5282# Java menu (GRPS/CSD settings for JAVA server)
- *#9999#0# Monitor Mode
- *#9999# or *#9998*9999# Software Version
- *#8888# or *#9998*8888# Hardware Version
- *#9998*746# or *#9998*0746# or *#0746# Sim Infos
- *#9998*523# or *#9998*0523# or *#0523# Display Contrast
- *#9998*842# or *#9998*0842# or *#0842# Vibration On (until you push OK)
- *#9998*289# or *#9998*0289# or *#0289# Buzzer On (until you push OK)
- *#9998*288# or *#9998*0288# or *#0288# Battery & Field Infos
- *#9998*377# or *#9998*0377# Error log
- *#9998*778# or *#9998*0778# or *#0778# Sim Service table
- *#9998*782# show date and alarm clock
- *#8999*638# show network information
- *#9998*5646# change operator logo at startup
- *#9998*76# production number
- *#9998*968# view melody for alarm
- *#9998*585# Non-Volatile Memory (NVM)
- *#3243948# Digital Audio Interference Off
- *#32436837# Digital Audio Interference On
FYI These codes have been obtained by decoding various .apk files present in the phone firmware.
This code can be used to get some interesting information about your phone and battery. It shows following 4 menus on screen:
* Phone information
* Battery information
* Battery history
* Usage statistics
This code can be used for a factory data reset. It'll remove following things:
* Google account settings stored in your phone
* System and application data and settings
* Downloaded applications
It'll NOT remove:
* Current system software and bundled applications
* SD card files e.g. photos, music files, etc.
PS: Once you give this code, you get a prompt screen asking you to click on "Reset phone" button. So you get a chance to cancel your operation.
Think before you give this code. This code is used for factory format. It'll remove all files and settings including the internal memory storage. It'll also reinstall the phone firmware.
PS: Once you give this code, there is no way to cancel the operation unless you remove the battery from the phone. So think twice before giving this code.
This code is used to get information about phone camera. It shows following 4 menus:
* Update camera firmware in image (Don't try this option)
* Update camera firmware in SD card
* Get camera firmware version
* Get firmware update count
WARNING: Never use the first option otherwise your phone camera will stop working and you'll need to take your phone to service center to reinstall camera firmware.
This one is my favorite one. This code can be used to change the "End Call / Power" button action in your phone. Be default, if you long press the button, it shows a screen asking you to select any option from Silent mode, Airplane mode and Power off.
You can change this action using this code. You can enable direct power off on this button so you don't need to waste your time in selecting the option.
This code opens a File copy screen where you can backup your media files e.g. Images, Sound, Video and Voice memo.
This code can be used to enter into Service mode. You can run various tests and change settings in the service mode.
WLAN, GPS and Bluetooth Test Codes:
- *#*#232339#*#* OR *#*#526#*#* OR *#*#528#*#* – WLAN test (Use "Menu" button to start various tests)
- *#*#232338#*#* – Shows WiFi MAC address
- *#*#1472365#*#* – GPS test
- *#*#1575#*#* – Another GPS test
- *#*#232331#*#* – Bluetooth test
- *#*#232337#*# – Shows Bluetooth device address
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How To Switch Out A Bathroom Faucet
Check out this ladykiller in the half bathroom:
It's not especially offensive looking, but it leaks. And with a single knob I'm always worried that Clara will accidentally turn it to scalding hot when she's washing her hands.
So we hit up our Habitat ReStore hoping for a cheap find. Sherry lunged for joy (you need to see that in person by the way) when she spotted this $12 find in the pile… only to learn that it was inexplicably missing one handle (we dug around for 20 minutes looking for it to no avail). Just wasn't meant to be.
So we settled for this $34 find at Home Depot, which was pretty much the most affordable option they had. We figured that it was worth the peace of mind that we no longer had a leak and that Clara could use it more easily.
Making the switch promised to be quick and easy. Turn off the water. Unscrew some hoses. Bada bing. Bada boom. Hello new faucet. Except step one revealed a slight snag in the this-should-be-easy plan. The hot water valve wouldn't turn off. It turned just fine, but the turning had no effect on the water flow. It just spun like a pinwheel.
That's how switching out the faucet turned into replacing the hot water shut off valve (something I'd never done before)… which meant turning off the water to the whole house at the street. So we whipped out our water meter key to help twist the always stubborn valve out there (these are around $7 and we use ours more than you'd think).
I don't have photos of the next part unfortunately, because I spent most of it with half of my body stuffed into the vanity trying to wrench various valves and hoses apart, wrap plumber's tape, and wrench things back together. And somewhere between yelling at Sherry to have a plumber on standby and quietly cursing, I forgot to ask her to hand me the camera (which probably would have gotten wet and resulted in too-dark-to-see photos anyway). #bloggerfail. But for an idea of what the installation process looked like, you can check out this well-lit and profanity-free video from Home Depot.
I tell ya, I was convinced throughout this entire project that I was going to break some pipe and a cartoonish explosion of water would erupt from the ground, lifting our home from its foundation like we had just struck oil. But surprise – none of that happened, and I was able to get the new hot water valve in without any problem.
With the new valve attached, I got the old faucet out of the way, scraped away some of the gunk on the sink with a putty knife, attached the new hoses under the sink, and put the new fixture in its place.
When it came time to turn the water back on, I was certain at least one or two of the five new connections I had just made were going to leak (just call me the most pessimistic plumber in the world). So I laid some colored construction paper under everything so if something dripped, I'd be able to spot it quickly.
To my shock, there were no drips. And I watched for a good ten minutes – convinced they were just waiting for me to look away. Then Sherry finally dragged me away from my sink staring-contest and encouraged me to accept the victory like a big boy. Our new faucet (and its hot water valve) were officially installed!
It's not a big exciting design decision, but we're certainly glad to have it taken care of for functional reasons. And I guess we did make a deliberate decision about the finish. We looked at a few oil-rubbed bronze options (to match things like the doorknob and the light fixture), but all of those were at least $80+ (which felt too expensive for a Phase 1 fix). So we're glad that brushed nickel worked just fine (and was a lot cheaper) thanks to the mirror, which acts as a "transition" between the two metals, since it mixes both tones in one spot.
Hilariously enough, the new faucet didn't fail to impress our toughest critic. Clara walked in there after her nap and just stood there for a second staring. When Sherry said "Is everything OK?" she said "Wowwww! It looks beautiful in here! Did we get a new washing thing?"
She often notices things that change in the house, but I think this is the first time she led with such a strong compliment. We'll take it.
Oh and here are the before and after photos you guys requested on our last bathroom post:
As for a budget breakdown, in our still-settling-in chaos we don't have every receipt on hand, but our best guess is that we've sunk about $110 into this room in total (for the mirror, paint, light fixture, vanity knobs, and faucet). So for rooms that you use every day but are pretty pricey to fully renovate (like a kitchen or bathroom), it's nice that an in-the-meantime upgrade can make a difference while you're saving up for Phase Two down the line.
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Looks great!
Everything you put your hands on turns into something beautiful! Well done!
Hurray for no cartoonish explosions of water and yay for a new faucet! I can't believe how much better it looks in there…wait, yes I can.
And did Clara go through a growth spurt because man she looks tall in front of that sink!! :-)
We've always had a main shutoff inside the house – in the basement. Both houses have had them right around the water meter. Do you guys not have that?
This brings me right back to all the plumbing we did in our old house… "Alright, everyone go potty and get a drink of water now; Dad's turning off the water!!"
I like the new faucet, however, can we talk about tile grout for a minute? Your floors look to be in a similar state to ours and we have tile throughout our kitchen, half-bathroom and laundry room. Do you have plans to clean and re-seal? It seems like such a big, tedious job! Which, I always tend to want to outsource.
Grout colorant! Which I think is just an expensive form of watered down paint with a little sealer mixed in. For that small room, you'd be done in 10 minutes. I think a slate gray would be pretty!
Paint that grout! I read a blogpost about it and it turned out amazing. I think the product was called Grout Renew?
Bleach, you need to use bleach. And scrub with a stiff brush.
Rubbermaid Commercial Quality Grout Cleaner. We picked ours up at our local Menards a while back and it worked wonders. In our last master bath we had white tile and what was supposed to be white grout… But it was disgustingly yellowed and gross. You pour this stuff on and watch the dirt come out of the grout. Barely any scrubbing required. We eventually used it on all of the grout in our house and were not disappointed. I'd send you our extra bottle that we still have but he have tile in our back hallway that I know will need it one of these years :)
We just made the same switch last weekend. Same old faucet, same new faucet. Luckily, no valve here. For the price, I'm happy with the new faucet but still looking forward to our phase 2 Reno.
The two handles are a smart safety move for Clara! Never thought of that. Hopefully this is common sense that comes standard when I have kids…
To worry and protect will be your new calling once you have a youngin'.
HAHA! Tara, thank you for that. I will be quoting it from now on.
Clara's comments are always a joy to read about. I guffawed at the "Kermit the Frog" one, but one of my favorites is her reaction to one of the Christmas presents the two of you made for her: "oh, wow, man!"
Looks so great in there for just 110$ so far! Love it! As someone about to buy a new place and do a fair bit of renovating (on a major budget!), I love your concept of phase one and two, it makes so much sense and makes things liveable in the meantime! Thanks for all the awesome ideas.
Love glacier bay! Super economical and they've held up for us! What a little improvement can make a big impact!
Everything is looking great as you all begin your updates. I hope you decide to keep the floor in the foyer and 1/2 bath and this may be in your plans already, but having the grout professionally cleaned is pretty inexpensive and makes a world of difference.
We have this exact same faucet – and I hate to say this – but ours is peeling bad. Its cheap. Maybe we got a lemon but its gross looking. The silver paint/coating whatever its called is coming off the handles. It started to look bad after about a year so hopefully yours will make it to phase II!
Yup, we have this exact one in 2 of our bathrooms, and the one that is used most often is peeling pretty bad. But, if your planning on replacing it down the line, hopefully it will make it a few years for you.
We have the same one in our rental and while the coating/paint is fine, the blue and red dots have fallen off (presumably into my drain). Works perfectly fine, though, and easy to clean.
I was afraid when I saw that Glacier Bay faucet box in your post. We had the same one on each of the double sinks in our master bath. They lasted less than a year before the finish started flaking and peeling off. They looked horrible.
I actually wrote a review on the Home Depot website about them and they sent me a giftcard to buy new faucets once I sent them photos of how bad ours looked! Just a warning, if you are planning to keep that faucet for awhile. It might be worth it to keep an eye out for another good deal on a different faucet.
-hot water shot off valve?!
-water meter key?!
'scuse me while i go spray paint some stuff because that's still my DIY speed. lolol ;D
bathroom looks fantastic.
You know, "washing thing" makes sense. Where did "faucet" even come from? And other silly words, like refrigerator – it used to be the ice box, which was much more descriptive if you ask me.
If you guys still have the steamer you used to remove wallpaper, you might want to try it on your bathroom grout. I used a steamer to clean mine and it worked like a charm! The grout looked like new. Plus, no chemicals (and since it's hot steam, totally disinfected). I had a nozzle on mine that made a "steam stream" to target the grout. Just thought I'd mention it!
Not that it doesn't look fabulous, because it totally does. But, just curious why you didn't go with the rubbed bronze look for the faucet?
We have mixed up finishes in our house and it is making me crazy, but, I can't justify the expense of replacing faucets that are only 2 years old over it…
Seeing you guys mix it up makes me feel better :)
Oops! I am a skimmer…
It ties in/together the brushed nickel cabinet knobs, too!
Mixed finishes can totally work together (like Sherry & John's), unless they are really bad finishes to start with! Its impossible to match every single metal finish in your home, and I don't think I'd want to.
For example, you can have stainless steel appliances in your kitchen, and still have ORB door and drawer pulls, brushed nickel faucet, etc. They just need to relate to each other. Like, shiny brass drawer pulls with little ceramic floral inserts would be LESS COOL. :)
All in my humble opinion, but I prefer a collected look as opposed to everything came out of the same brand new box on the same day.
I found an ORB faucet for $50 off overstock! Might be worth checking out for the future.
Is there anything you two can't do? ;)
Um, I'm going to have to disagree that the old faucet was inoffensive. It was pretty ugly. The new one is very nice. I agree with Clara- it makes the whole room look pretty!
LOVE the look of this powder room! I'm just in the beginning steps of tackling mine and I'm totally going to copy you guys–hope that's cool! :)
I currently have a brushed nickle faucet but was thinking of ORB-ing it…have you guys spray painted fixtures that (obviously) get wet a lot? Good, bad, ugly?
YOU GUYS. That half-bath looks AWESOME. I was hoping, though, that your faucet-switcheroo experience would be profanity-free, because it's something I've wondered if I could tackle on my own. Now I know the answer is No. ;-)
Love the before and after (and all your'e doing in your new place!!) But I have to say that I'm REALLY taken by how, in the after photo, the tile seems SO much less dark. I would have thought that the lighter walls etc would accentuate the dark tile but it's the opposite! So cool! The grey vanity I think helps 'blend' the floor into the room. WELL DONE!
We have pink tile in one of our bathrooms and we chose red for the walls because anything else seemed to make the tile look even more pink.
Wish we could have found matching grout paint for the tile – the newly-white grout is calling so much attention to the ugly tile.
Nice job on the faucet switch! We've replaced our kitchen faucet (old white plastic to new stainless steel finish), but still need to do the one in our bathroom. It's got the single big twisty knob thing like yours and we need something with smoother functionality. Would you consider re-using your new one in the final bathroom renovation, or are you planning to get something totally different?
Now, *that's* how DIY projects go at our house….thanks for always keepin' it real! Yes, I would think growing up in the household that she's in, Clara will become a very observant person, always trying to pick out what's changed recently (everyone, cue your favorite "psych" episode). Lol
. . . she said "Wowwww! It looks beautiful in here! Did we get a new washing thing?"
OMG… she cracks me up! Love that girl. :)
And she's right wowwww ~ it is beautiful in there ~ with just a few simple changes (well, except for the hot water thingy) ;)
We had the same old faucet as you, sans leak, but I still couldn't wait to replace it. I've a question, though, and please do NOT take this as a criticism because it is so not my intention! When you move to phase 2 and it sounds like you might replace the faucet again then, why not buy the more expensive one now and just re-use when you move into phase 2? Just trying to understand the thinking, 'tis all. Looking good!
Makes sense!
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Hi all,
This week I built my new compost bin and figured I would show it off (a few photos below). Because of some landscaping we did last summer, the old chicken wire hoop I had been using for the last eight years was not in an ideal location. And it was smaller than what I want, particularly given new found sources of horse manure and chicken manure/bedding. And it was time to build something new! This project has been on the books for two years and I finally got it done.
It is made of pine boards and 1/2 inch hardware cloth and has two bins that are each a little under 4x4x4 (curious assistant composter for scale). The sides and back are hardware cloth. The front panels and the middle divider are 1x6s on edge that can be removed for easy access and turning between bins. Following someone's suggestion in some post here somewhere, I used screws at the ends of the boards to space them at 1/2 inch for additional ventilation. The close up shows how I designed the brackets (1x2s and the vertical 1x6s on the front) to hold the front and middle panels. The lids are hinged and can be propped open while working.
The final two photos show the bin in action! On the right is production from the pile I started last fall in the old chicken wire hoop. I screened that pile through the screen propped up there, which has 1/2 inch hardware cloth, and put the finished compost (final photo) into the bin on the right for adding to the raised and other beds. I know, I know, compost does not need to be screened, but I like the look of the fine texture and I return the coarse residue to the pile to cook for next time! The old chicken wire hoop yielded five wheelbarrows of finished, screened compost! It was only about three feet in diameter, so I think with more ingredients this year (i.e., neighbors leaves, and did I mention the newly found sources of horse manure, and chicken manure/bedding?...now I am just bragging!) I should be able to make even more in the new, bigger bin.
The coarse residue and unfinished material from the top of the old hoop bin is in the bin on the left, piled on top of the first batch of fresh grass clippings and chopped leaves from last fall, which is heated right up. When I finish mowing the lawn, I will add more grass and leaves and then mix and turn the whole pile by dumping it into the other bin!
The new bin
Three front boards of left bin removed and lid propped open
Screws in the ends of panel boards for 1/2 inch spacing.
Dribble, the assistant composter, examines the new bin with all front boards removed. Dividers between the bins can be removed also.
Detail of brackets for removable boards. Divider boards in place between 1x2 brackets, front boards removed from between front 1x6s and 1/x2s.
Action shot! Five wheelbarrows of screened, finished compost on the right, beginning of new pile on the left. Right lid is not screwed on to hinges yet.
Close-up of finished compost from the pile started at the beginning of last fall. Some scraps of dry leaves from the edges made it in too.
Mustard seeds is a flat out imposter slash crook slash liar.
I am so sickened by this kind of thing.
The upper states have had a compost certification outfit operating for the last dozen years, requiring a mere five gallon sample (pail, not baggie gallon) for full certification. From our outfit you would receive an actual certificate, made from natural, compostable, sans unsavory feedstock ingredients including sequins harvested from the local record breaker, the togue, aka the lake trout.
1/2 binful---Scoundrel!! Any idiot (no offense, dlup) could see through this scam!
dlup, your bins are George-ous and the "compost" in them looks pretty good from a distance. I'd like to see it a little closer to verify.
Why don't you send me a private e-mail for details?
Hey, I resent that Annpat! My analysis also checks for surreptitious bread products that may have been added to the bins. And I think that I also should get the address to check out these bins and make sure they really are as nice as they look. And I can make sure that cute blue wheelbarrow is strong enough to get from the bins to my truck while I am there, since I want small-town-gal to be safe and make sure her operation can continue.
:) Rachel
ps - very nice job S-T-G
I just love the ingenuity of the people on this forum. That is a very beautiful compost bin. But, being such a braggart should be outlawed with strict and severe penalties enforced. Hmm...proper penalty...loss of bragged about items to the compost police (me) along with a probation period during which time, one tenth of all compost created must be paid to the law enforcement officer, (again, me).
My post did not show up yesterday - I misread the OP as being that of smalltowngirl - it was dlup (David) - sorry! What nice bins you have!! It is great to see what you have built and the use of screws for ventilation - thanks!!


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The slowest most dragging plot (is there a plot?) --no narrative pace. Inane dialogue, and sophmoric humor --even an obsession with nudity ("ooooo they aren't wearing clothes"). Jeeez. How this could be described as "the wickedest and most wonderful science fiction story ever..." completely eludes me.
"Good concept made boring"
There was almost no charcter in this book that was truly sympathetic --or even particularly developed, each desperately involved in self interest. And any plot(s) --both complicated and pedantic . I kept listening hoping it would gel into something but never seems to.
The narration is good. It went some way to salvaging the situation....
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