Memories in Silver
Jeff Wyonch-Toronto: Over the next few weeks, The Silver Snail will be moving (not closing!) from it’s long-time Queen West location to rub shoulders with the HMV Superstore at Yonge and Dundas, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It’s one of the oldest comic shops in TO, possibly Canada. The move is bitter-sweet for me, as it was the [...]
An Open Letter to Comics Retailers
Jeff Wyonch-Toronto: This is a bit of an open rant. I’d like to start with both an apology, and a request that you take the following with a grain of salt and an open mind. I’m not intentionally trying to offend anyone. From Warren Ellis’ famous Come in Alone column to Frank Miller’s infamous Wizard rant, [...]
A Small Measure
Jeff Wyonch-Toronto: I’m currently debt-free. Well, that’s not completely true; I still have a few hundred dollars of credit card debt, but that will be gone next month. I’m also getting my monthly budget back under control, which is slow but promising. It’s taken a long time to get to this point. Several years, in [...]
A Small Quiz
Jeff Wyonch-Toronto: Time to test your knowledge of the Ceeb! I’ve put together a fiendishly complex gaggle of queries regarding the CBC. Let’s a get a few things out of the way first: This isn’t sponsored by the CBC. All the answers are public knowledge, and can be found in books or online. Sorry, no [...]
Readme: 2004
Jeff Wyonch-Toronto: Waaaay back in 2004, I was looking for ways to get familiar with PHP. If you’ve glanced over the rest of this blog, you’ll have noticed I also spend an inordinate amount of time reading. So, a small micro-site of suggestions to my co-workers was born. I look back on that code now [...]
FanExpo: Fail
Jeff Wyonch: Instead of being inside a convention which I paid $60 for a 3-day pass, I’m sitting next door in my office writing this note. By this time, the people I paid the $60 for are finished signing, and are gone for good. The line is stretched from the CN Tower entrance, all the [...]
Book Crawls: The Danforth
Jeff Wyonch: Pub crawls and book crawls may be the antithesis of each other, but they both have one thing in common: they work on the same fundamental base element…your brain cells. I’ve been doing a lot of book crawls lately, and have the bursting shelves to prove it. Sadly, I don’t think any of [...]
This Hobo has a Kobo:A Review of the Kobo Reader Device
Jeff Wyonch: So, I’ve been chomping at the bit for an eReader ever since the Kindle made it’s way onto the market. Chapters, a Canadian brick-and-mortar book retailer, has teamed up with a Canadian eReader manufacturer/distributor to bring us Canucks the Kobo. I bought mine today. I’m both impressed and a little crestfallen. Trust me, [...]
