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, [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
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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, [...]
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